Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 7:02 pm
how about being stuck in your car because you forgot to take a couple of iron nails out of your pocket before getting in.
a discussion forum for Polywell fusion
https://talk-polywell.org/bb/
http://physics.info/energy-chemical/chrismb wrote:TNT = ~4GJ
kWh = ~4MJ
Carrying around energy always has its dangers. Infrastructure energy always has its dangers. For a given energy type, the more of it, the more dangerous it is.
Safest common energy/engine combination yet devised = diesel fuel. (it'll put a lighted match out, if you throw one in to a bucket of the stuff.)
Most economical mass produced energy/engine combination = diesel. (~40MJ/kg, 100kg diesel = 1 tonne TNT = 1,000kWh)
.....now go figure what fuel will [continue to] dominate....
And your point is??.....WizWom wrote: http://physics.info/energy-chemical/
puts hydrogen at 142MJ/kg; also propane and methane both are above diesel.
20 T magnetic fields? At the very least it's going to add weight...kunkmiester wrote:There are ways to keep magnetic fields from going places you don't want
Citation please?IntLibber wrote:...projected to force the closure of 20% of coal power plants in the US by next summer.
A number of older coal plants will be replace bu new lants. 1 maybe 2% will be shut due to solar wind and nat gas coming on line. % of electricy from coal has dropped from 52% to 48% due to solar wind and nat gas coming online, this trend can be expected tp continue in the next year. OTOH closing 20% of coal plants means about a 10% reduction in electricity, unacceptable from a national security standpoint. And totally unrealistic.hanelyp wrote:Citation please?IntLibber wrote:...projected to force the closure of 20% of coal power plants in the US by next summer.
Sounds like we may be facing power outages next summer.
Until wind can be predicted, wind power must backed up by other sources. A good 2 week high pressure event will stall out those wind farms and require standby power to run reliably. When it occurs in an extreme cold spell such as happened in England, those immoral coal plants had to run to keep people alive. Solar is even worse when your peak is at night. So, you can't abandon coal and replace it with wind and solar, it is a simple fact. It is just fantasy.Roger wrote: A number of older coal plants will be replace bu new lants. 1 maybe 2% will be shut due to solar wind and nat gas coming on line. % of electricy from coal has dropped from 52% to 48% due to solar wind and nat gas coming online, this trend can be expected tp continue in the next year. OTOH closing 20% of coal plants means about a 10% reduction in electricity, unacceptable from a national security standpoint. And totally unrealistic.
http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/laws-g ... 768-1.htmlhanelyp wrote:Citation please?IntLibber wrote:...projected to force the closure of 20% of coal power plants in the US by next summer.
Sounds like we may be facing power outages next summer.
http://greatlakesecho.org/2009/05/06/ep ... on-abroad/
Some plants could have a hard time meeting the proposed cap, which could push domestic cement production into countries with even less stringent environmental standards, said Andy O’Hare, vice president of regulatory affairs with the Portland Cement Association.
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-vine/76566/ ... l-shutdown
[The rules] would force utilities to invest tens of millions of dollars on technologies to remove the substances. Many of those plants are about 50 years old and are already inefficient. "Those investments are just not going to be justifiable," said Dan Bakal, director of electric power programs at Ceres, a group of environmentalists and institutional investors.
Francois Broquin, a co-author of reports on coal by Bernstein Research, said the combined rules could push as much as 20 percent of U.S. coal-fired electric generation capacity to retire by 2015. "Obviously that will have an impact," he said.
Not insane. Well intended... After all, nobody wants dirty air, and nobody wants oceans covered with oil slicks, and nobody wants poisonous dirt.MSimon wrote:Enviros are insane.