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Mike Holmes, basically, in a very short nutshell, the paper is pointing out that solar/wind can be built now (and is, extensively, all around the world) with less land area that nuclear, with less cost than nuclear, with less time than nuclear. I'm not being anti nuclear here, I am only accepting t...

I'm not sure why I am here yet, either. I thought I would run through a few baseline quantitive questions first to form my own technical assessment of where the project is at. That's great. You seem to be a competent physicist, and it would be great if it turned out that you could see some potentia...

I could be mistaken, but I thought they were based in Middleton. Which is a suburb of Madison (if that can be said of a college town). Even closer to Rockford. Basically these guys are the UW-Madison crew working on their own, no? The picture of their magrid is, in fact, the IEC device that they use...

But the BOE analysis of cost has already been done, and even if forced to deal with the cost of the five nines stuff, it's still plenty economical (barring errors on calculation of several orders of magnitude). It's a fuel source that's readily available today, plentiful from existing mines (don't h...

Chris, as a non-technical outsider, let me propose what seems to be the problem. You ask questions: great. Then people post links to threads where this stuff has been discussed previously. You seem to then come back and say that nobody has answered your question. Worse, then you say that there is no...

I was sorta joking thinking that the conference might yet be this year (wouldn't be time to organize sending somebody anyway). But looking at it, it seems like we have an advocate in Doctor Joel there. Is there a conference set for next year? If so, will he be there? Or does anyone else plan on atte...

So is there a fund I can donate to, in order to send Tom Ligon?



Mike

The principle you're thinking of is referred to as "The Tragedy of the Commons." Called so because of the example of an English commons for grazing where each individual has an incentive to use it as much as possible (gotta use it up before somebody else does!), until it is destroyed by over-use, at...

Josh, I missed your post above, sorry: You mention a paper that shows somehow that nuke plants are not economical. That sounds interesting, and hard to believe. Especially given that there are so many potential designs and such. I'm sorry to be so lazy, but would you spell out the general argument m...

Well, not that I believe it's proven, but the argument with AGW is that, in fact, it would lead to drouts, which mean less drinkable water, and less available food. So I don't think you're really disagreeing with them there. I'd agree on air pollution. But, well, I do live in an affluent country, an...

Had a funny feeling...

Mike

Seedload, MSimon, let me be more direct. You don't seem to be engaging anyone in the thread in debate, but simply ranting against some non-present green conspiracy.

But, hey, that's just my perspective.

Mike

Hmmm. Would Americans buy a Chineese car... ? Nobody thought they'd buy more Japanese cars than American cars until it happened in the 70s. And we do buy lots of stuff made in China. I wonder if there are American concerns behind this car. That is, most of the vast array of stuff we get here in Amer...

It is one of the reasons I would rather not see the BFR project tied to the AGW idea. This is why I advised ClassicPenny to change his book for kids on the subject to not make it seem like the goal of Polywell is primarily reversing AGW. Instead making the fact that it's ecologically sound just one...

Actually, since most charging would be done at night, we already have the capacity to deal with some tens of millions of electric cars. Not enough to replace every car on the street now, no. But nobody is proposing that everyone will convert overnight. We would have time to build more capacity as it...