If one of these things will yield more energy than it took to put it together, then the celebration might begin.
Even before that it’s a plausible battery.
You’re probably thinking electrical plant. Hey if it can be stoked with this stuff at practical power levels... and it doesn’t need as much energy to make as it will yield... why not.
There’s still going to be the question of consumption of material. Can they take used fuel and make new good fuel out of it? Or does use mean it’s forever useless for the reaction now?
RedNeck wrote:
If one of these things will yield more energy than it took to put it together, then the celebration might begin.
***Umm... 14000 of these things yielded more energy than was put into them. And on top of that, the energy was beyond what any known chemical process could produce. That is the definition of “excess heat”.
You’re probably thinking electrical plant. Hey if it can be stoked with this stuff at practical power levels... and it doesn’t need as much energy to make as it will yield... why not.
***I’m thinking the aim is to replace coal firing plants as they go offline due to excessive EPA restrictions. They’re going out of business by the handful, every day. I’m not sure LENR is mature enough to step in. But if it is, $Billions will be made for some very select individuals. In a VERY rapid time frame, seemingly overnight. Not like Bill Gates over 2 decades, we’re talking “Slumdog Billionaire”.
There’s still going to be the question of consumption of material. Can they take used fuel and make new good fuel out of it? Or does use mean it’s forever useless for the reaction now?
**It doesn’t matter. When you decommission a coal plant or worse, nukular plant, there are tons of disposal issues. There is some evidence that LENR can be used to reduce radioactivity of some terrible substances, but even though it was done by Mitsubishi & Toyota, I think that will simply be a side line. The disposal issues for LENR will be perhaps 1/10th that of coal.