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by KitemanSA
Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:57 am
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

sd_matt wrote:
Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:11 am

With that in mind would you guys post what your profession, education and experience are. I want to post this thread to Twitter to hammer home that point.
In my bio.
by KitemanSA
Sun Oct 22, 2023 7:48 am
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

I had all that stuff until I was evicted from facebook. I found the reference. Markadya A & Wilkinson, P. (2007). Electrical Generation and Health. Lancet 370(9591), 979-990 Sadly these are truths that almost no one wants to hear... Check the attachment. The colored bar segments was from M&W and th...
by KitemanSA
Sat Oct 21, 2023 8:06 am
Forum: News
Topic: ZAP Energy News
Replies: 133
Views: 26184

Re: ZAP Energy News

Reminds me of that Harris cartoon… Two men in lab coats standing at a chalkboard. On the board… Step 1 equations equations equations… Step 3… equations equations = circled answer. Between those steps… Step 2 “then a miracle occurs”. One man to the other “I think you need to work on step 2 a bit more”.
by KitemanSA
Fri Oct 20, 2023 6:11 pm
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

I was thinking about “rock catchments” for rainwater harvesting in arid and semi-arid parts of the world when it struck me that “white tarp” catchments would do as well, could be placed most anywhere, AND have the added benefit that they would counter the effects of GHG emissions. That got me thinki...
by KitemanSA
Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:53 pm
Forum: News
Topic: ZAP Energy News
Replies: 133
Views: 26184

Re: ZAP Energy News

mvanwink5 wrote:
Fri Oct 20, 2023 1:47 pm
Fortunately, several classes of solutions are available to reduce the cathode erosion problem to manageable levels.
Like what? Seems a bit “bibbity bobbity boo”. Ignorance tlaking!
by KitemanSA
Mon Oct 16, 2023 4:59 am
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

Nuclear is reliable, but more expensive (at least until 4th generation nuclear is operational). Again, just plain false. Nuclear France has power costs ~1/3 of buffered W&S Germany. You simply MUST think about the entire system. I found this from Eurostat , and this from Euronews . The second link ...
by KitemanSA
Mon Oct 16, 2023 4:47 am
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

Solar and Wind are unreliable, but also cheaper. This is just plain false. W&S MUST be buffered for grid use. Buffered W&S is about the most expensive power there is. I don't get it. If this is false, why are the big energy companies still investing in installing more W&S ? Massive federal and stat...
by KitemanSA
Mon Oct 16, 2023 1:41 am
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

Last third of the vid https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0kahih8RT1k Many things wrong. CO2 output WAS as high as 110 to 170 g/kwh back in the 50s when most enrichment was by gas diffusion, and when the process was run by a local coal fired power plant. Modern centrifuge enrichment takes about 1/10th th...
by KitemanSA
Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:35 am
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

According to this lady, who seems to attempt to be neutral, the "levelized" cost of nuke plants is five times that of wind or solar. First thing. What is levelized cost? Levelized cost is an ATTEMPT to have a point to point comparison of energy sources. The problem is that it does not really take i...
by KitemanSA
Sun Oct 15, 2023 4:44 pm
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

I should mention that I am a layman and not an engineer or a scientist. In layman's terms and regarding your post a couple posts back: Are you saying the Elysium concept would be best implemented in conjunction with other MSR, what is the word, "configurarions"? Yes, that is what I am saying. With ...
by KitemanSA
Sun Oct 15, 2023 11:57 am
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

It comes out to about 15,000 tonnes each year.
by KitemanSA
Sun Oct 15, 2023 11:21 am
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

Ok if I follow this technical-ese then, when considering the timescales, we are better off waiting for commercial fusion rather than develop any MSR? Not sure how you got to that conclusion. You could make that leap if you are restricting yourself to MCSFRs like Elysium wanted. But if we max out th...
by KitemanSA
Sun Oct 15, 2023 2:20 am
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

Somebody mentioned gen 4 fission. To me that would be a good pragmatic way forward until commercial fusion is available. For the U.S. and other countries that already have fission plants the Elysium MSR makes the most sense to me. It's a "waste" burner and would be made of stainless. Seems the easi...
by KitemanSA
Sat Oct 14, 2023 3:43 am
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

From the sources I found until now, most of the leaked methane is at the extraction points, not transport or storage. Do you have other sources that I could read ? Have you ever seen an “extraction point”? Pipes coming out of the ground, “Christmas trees” capping the well pipe. Compressors, flasks,...
by KitemanSA
Sat Oct 14, 2023 3:28 am
Forum: General
Topic: For the "Greens"
Replies: 38
Views: 1469

Re: For the "Greens"

So, for the medium term, let's say up to 2050, what can we reasonably expect to set up that is both, economically viable, and the least environmentally harmful ? That is 25+ years. France went from 0% to ~75% nuclear electricity in far less time than that. If we decided to do it, we could build and...