As of three years ago Mizuno was achieving up to 10W/cm2
this compares with the 30W/cm2 of fission pellets. He is working on increasing that
as well as other things.
"The excess heat calculated on the basis of the assumption that the reactant was nickel was several 10 W/g and was 1 to 10 W/cm2"
The problem with fission reactor is that they do not scale DOWN. well.. due to the requirements for shielding/heat exchange...it gets very uneconomic to have 20 MWunits
The advantage of LENR reactors such as Mizuno's is the lack of radiation
and if the problems of continuity/ controllability are overcome then
units as small as 0.001 MW become economic so that distributed power generation becomes the norm rather than
the current power generation from large 100- 500 MW fossil fuel/fission
The current price of the alternative distributed power generation...solar panels...is decreasing fast
but is still high compared to the fossil fuel/fission plant. However some governments are interested in both
large scale and distributed small scale solar