LENR generates low-quality heat, of not much practical use. Tis discovery permits the direct conversion of LENR to electricity, at a fairly high conversion efficiency.
woah. that’s huge. huge as in the world changes if this pans out—especially if costs go way down. Civilization basically advances on ever lower energy costs.
thanks interpreting the article for me.
I’ve read in other venues that the problem with nuclear power plants is that they rely on 19th century technology—ie boilers — to convert electron scatter to heat to steam to drive turbines to make electricity. That 21st century technology will entail at some point directly converting electrons to electricity.
That will create electricity at prices much much lower than are currently available. That’s the big revolution.