Re: Re: Midterms
  By: Rob Mccart to MARK HOFMANN on Mon Aug 01 2022 12:54 am

 > MH>All the power issues could have been prevented by allowing increased supp
 >   >investments in more nuclear power.  There is still no better low cost sou
 >   >power than nuclear.
 > 
 > Other than the nuclear waste issues..   Probably the best is Hydro Electric
 > power but few areas have ideal places to set that up. Zero pollution and we
 > have Hydro plants in Canada that have been running virtually unattended for 
 > long that their output has to be converted from 25 cycle to 60 cycle power,
 > something that was changed over to in the mid 1950's.
 > 
 > It's sort of turning out that solar and wind are also only reliable and
 > predictable in limited areas so there's no easy answer. Tidal generators tha
 > generate power both as the tide comes in and goes out (and the tides are
 > fairly reliable) might be another 'clean' option on ocean coasts.
 > 
 > Also, as far as nuclear goes, there are stations that can be built that are 
 > efficient that they could use the waste from regular nuclear power plants to
 > generate power, and Their waste is far less dangerous and lasts a fraction a
 > long, but you won't find many of those simply because they cost more to buil
 > 
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Hydro Electric is Awesome. It also has an advantage in that you can save up
water during times you don't need it to use it later (up to a point).

I am a fan of wind generators because they are cheap for what they are and they
pack more kilowatts per euro than solar. Thermosolar is also great for home
heating.

Heliostats are just brutal. Those use mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto a
mass of water, which boils and can be used to power a turbine. Too bad you
can't place those everywhere.

The problem with most of those is that they require "regular" resources to
create and maintain. Sure, wind is great (even if burdned by unreliability) but
it uses oil for lubrication and you can bet the concrete pilars aerogeneratorsd
are placed on required hydrocarbridges.

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