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>Cold fusion has always been

Stefan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:10:17 +0000

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>Cold fusion has always been the energy of the future, and it always will be.

The cold fusion has never been the energy of the future it had been a debunked bad science until quite resent developments. Slowly LENR has gained creditability and now it got quite dramatic boost (last couple years).

>Whipple is correct that LENR

Stefan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:01:37 +0000

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>Whipple is correct that LENR would be a game-changer. But have we really seen enough to call it viable?

Yes, we do. Other green-tech looks totally inferior comparatively with LENR; it has gained a substantial creditability in the last couple years. It is a bad news for one who has invested in "grassy tech" so the they try to down play it keeping "balanced" POV (as this article does). It is also true that even LENR based car is still far away but it is a certain deal, once we have a lot of money channelled in LENR research with many star-ups running for the prize, the direct LENR->electricity conversion will be an ultimate solution; even with current "just-heat" output LENR will find way to the car industry it just will take longer.

From my article: "Hydrogen is

Donal — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:45:17 +0000

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From my article: "Hydrogen is a portable way of storing energy ..."

Cold fusion has always been

Ian Cooper — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:38:45 +0000

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Cold fusion has always been the energy of the future, and it always will be. Let's face facts, as a substitute for oil, it's a fantasy.

As for hydrogen-powered cars, the fact that you're even mentioning it as a possibility means you don't understand it. Hydrogen is not an energy source. It's an energy carrier, like electricity.

Actually the wind turbines I

Donal — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:51:33 +0000

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Actually the wind turbines I see in PA aren't turning at all. So I guess that isn't intermittent.

Wind intermittent? Take a

James Salsman — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:46:00 +0000

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Wind intermittent? Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pumped-storage_hydroelectric_power_stations

But that won’t matter until about 2023 when the US grid reaches 70% wind, because demand sources can load level until then.

Check out how tight the 95% prediction confidence intervals are on this extrapolation: http://i.imgur.com/IfFoA.png