Alan J Fletcher quotes Google:
The Greeks professor at the University of Bologna and former
Ambassador Christos Stremmenos, who participated in the research
effort but also participate in the company Defkalion, calculates that
*the cost of electricity will be less than $ 0.01 per kilowatt hour,*
while the average cost of production PPC reaches 0.1 million.
Defkalion *Hyperion 3.000-5.000 *( ), ( inverter ) 500-900 . The
device that produces Defkalion called *Hyperion and will be marketed
in 3000-5000 against the euro* for heat production (for domestic hot
water), while an additional purchase of a converter (inverter) cost
500-900 million could be generated electric energy will be channeled
to the grid in the same way as the connection of PV.
I think something's lost in the translation. $0.01 / kWH !!??
Hyperion 3000 - 5000 : is that purchase price in Euros for domestic
hot water ??? ==> $4000 - $7000
Rossi said they will only sell to factories and professionals. I doubt
they will find 300,000 industrial customers for a brand-new, untried
technology. Even if the fuel costs nothing, factory engineers are more
concerned with reliability and ease of maintenance. That's what the
people at Hydrodynamics tell me. If the unit goes down unexpectedly for
a few hours, all the money they saved in fuel will not make up for the
money they lose in production.
There is a lot of confusion about this, as we have come to expect from
Rossi. In the LENR-CANR News section I quote Defkalion web site claim
that they have the right to sell everywhere in the world but the
Americas (presumably North and South America). But other sources say the
Greek company will only sell in Greece and the Balkans. Who knows what
to believe?
A 5000 euro water heater for a house would not be a good deal. In the
U.S., over the 20-year life of a household heater, machine+fuel costs
about $3,500 for an electric heater or $1,700 for gas. (That's an
estimate based on 50 gallons a day which is a lot less than I use.)
A 5000 euro heater for an apartment building or factory would be a great
deal, as long as it works reliably. However, I do not think sane people
will want to drink or bathe in water that has been run through the heat
exchanger of a nuclear reactor, especially one that is all-but-untested
and which no theorist on earth can explain. You couldn't pay me to do that!
I keep bringing up practical considerations of this nature. Rossi and
most U.S. cold fusion researchers tell me there is nothing to worry
about. I can't tell if I am crazy or they are, but I get a strong
feeling that one of us is far removed from reality. To me, the notion of
selling 300,000 nuclear that no one understands to the public is so
unthinkable, and so far beyond the pale, they might as well be talking
about selling 300,000 flying cars without any consideration of air
traffic control or pilots licenses. I can't imagine that any sane
government regulator would even consider allowing such a thing! If I
were a regulator, I would tell them to come back when they a 2-foot
stack of reports from universities and national laboratories worldwide
proving the thing is perfectly safe and 100% under control, after a
million hours of testing a few thousand units. That's what regulators
and the public demand of a prosaic, incremental improvement to existing
technology, such as a new type of hybrid automobile. So it seem obvious
to me the public will demand that level of reassurance for a
revolutionary machine.
By "inverter" I assume they mean something like a thermoelectric
generator (TEG), or possibly a steam turbine. A TEG costs a fortune and
is very inefficient. Small turbines are promising but still under
development. I doubt anyone could put a price on one. So I have no clue
what this means. More confusion.
- Jed
