Jed, Sorry, I do not understand in chap 15 of the book wether you took into account LED and fluoreshent lighting or plain old incandescent lighting? (much of the EU is converting to LED and Fluo by law)
mic 2011/4/28 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>: > Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> "Thermoelectric chips?" >> >> >> >> Exactly. >> >> >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantenna >> >> >> >> . . . > > >> >> >> >> What will make the Cold fusion reaction really useful is direct thermal >> electric generation technology. > > It is "really useful" already. Small turbines are really practical too, and > cheap. > Furthermore, as Michele Comitini points out, many household and industrial > uses of energy can be converted from electricity to heat. Many were > converted from heat to electricity a century ago, but they are just as > conveniently done with heat. For example, gas-fired thermal refrigerators > work fine, and they were in widespread use in the 1930s. I saw some in the > 1960s. > Comitini's estimate of likely future electric power consumption at home is > probably too low, however. I looked at consumption in the home, and > estimated how much can be conveniently shifted to the direct use of heat. > See chapter 15 of my book. I used statistics from the DoE Energy Information > Administration showing that electricity accounts for 7,913 kWh per year per > household. That 27% of household energy. I estimate that will fall to 5,500 > kWh (19%). > That's only 0.6 kW of power on average, but you need much higher peak > capacity. Realistically, you need about 10 kW of generator capacity, after > moving most applications to raw heat. > Details are in chapter 15, as I said. > - Jed
