Well… Why should you produce heat when you can produce electricity… freed electrons w/LENR BlacklightPower NASA etc?

“Yo, I got this box – it like, gets really HOT! You could, like, boil water with it ‘n stuff. Maybe run a steam engine or heat your apartment building with it.”

“You mean like a campfire in an enclosed case?”

“Yeah, kinda. But a campfire that don’t need no extra wood to burn.”
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I know we’re all fascinated with this Nearly Free Heat thing, but, really, heat? Sure LENR might really be the “new fire.” But doesn’t seem strange that we’re back to having to effectively burn something in order to get our energy fix?
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That aside, what of the Tesla Turbine with PowerChips glued to the entire exterior of the turbine casing? Rotational energy and electrical energy at the same time.
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Small LENR reactors can’t easily harness co-generation, large ones will probably be built to do exactly that. The surplus heat, left over after driving steam generators, would be used in alternative energy generation uses.

Hydrogen is a good non-polluting fuel, but also synthetic fuels could be made if the cost of energy is minimal, meaning even less modifications needed to automotive and other transport. By my reckoning we’ll have a few forms of LENR energy by the end of this year – maybe not in full production but at least verified and gearing-up for production. After that it’s a matter of how fast you can get the regulatory approvals done and how fast you can get the factories up to speed. As we’ve discussed here, changing all the oil-burning devices in the world will probably take a couple of decades – it’s a big job. The spur of saving a lot of money will help to speed up this transfer to LENR-powered systems, but it’s still going to take some time.

I agree that it would not be as efficient, however the LENR devices are extremely cheap for power and would still save the consumer massive amounts of money and still be green.

I can see generating the hydrogen constantly just to store it for when it’s needed, only if the car can’t generate enough power to push the car in the first place. But then how far could you go before you’d have to stop to let the car refuel itself with more hydrogen?

I’m coming to like the idea of a steam engine, since Brucefast pointed out that modern steam engines recover the steam. So I can see using steam to power the car, with a generator to convert some of it to electricity for both the battery and whatever electricity the car needs.