Reply To: A Big Prick in the Balloon of the Big Bang

[Timo]

zapkitty wrote: And thus the notional DPF “box” can be described as 3m x 2m x 2m… if you work within those constraints for the time being you’ll be less likely to be taken by surprise…

… and why a fusion-powered passenger car? If aneutronic fusion is proven then Chevron will have no choice but to relax its death grip on large NimH battery applications… or they won’t have any options left at all except the auction block.

Just hypothetical mind game. How small can we get.

Maybe passenger cars are out of the question for some time, maybe forever, but just one of those 5MW 3x2x2m boxes would power bigger boats and ships just nicely. Other thing I could imagine is a big cruiser-like blimp (airship, dirigible) with nearly infinite range. Would you like to go air-cruising in luxury blimp? I would. Cross-Atlantic flight that takes several days, but with comfort of the luxury ship. Maybe heavy-duty very large range helicopters? 3x2x2 is small enough to fit in locomotives several times over, so trains definitely get that benefit. No more expensive electric overhead wires. This can revolutionize much more than just household electricity needs.

I can’t imagine the savings of the fuel costs for bigger cruisers and cargo ships.

Passenger cars would obviously be battery electric vehicles powered by distributed “grid” of fusion reactors for a long long time unless/until we can get the actual reactor small enough to fit into car.