A cheap, abundant, clean, scalable, portable source of energy will impact EVERYONE.
- Singular solution to peak oil, climate change, fresh water, and associated geopolitical instabilities.
- Drop-in replacement for traditional utility heat sources. Minimal impact to existing infrastructure
- Enables widely distributed generation. Homes and businesses generate what they need - on site
- Enables whole new approaches to all of air travel affordably
I will make a small start of some specifics. Let us look at some design metrics for aircraft using LENR:
Fuel mass and volume become negligible:
- Mass is essentially constant from take-off to landing
- Increase in payload as percentage of TOW
- Optimizations for increased landing weight
What does this mean? Well in commercial aircraft the Payload is 14% , Fuel is 43% and Structure is also 43%. So what if fuel is 0%? How about the following:
Personal Air Vehicles
- Performance equates to increased safe
- Performance fully enables true point-to-point
- Greatly extended range (Local -> Global!)Huge implications for Air Traffic Control
Military
- Unlimited loiter
- Enhanced mobility with a reduction of supply logistics
- Horizontal take-off access to orbit
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