Re: Bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon...

On May 18, 6:08 pm, MooseFET <kensm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 18, 3:08 pm, Jon Kirwan <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Skip the nukes in CA, except in areas of stability.

Nobody in California is stable :>


Ha ha ha. :D


Basically the whole place is fault lines.  Everywhere there is water,
there is a fault.  If you draw all the police and fire stations on a
map and play connect the dots, you have a map of the faults.

 Must be some
towards the Nevada side and perhaps the north-eastern corner near
Oregon.

Up there you get earthquakes and volcanoes.  The southern end looks
more promicing.

But CA has some mostly useless area (except to the few insects living
there) with lots of sun -- death valley comes to mind.  Perhaps solar?

A lot of land has had all the water sent to LA so it would make sense
to put solar power plants there too.  Basically nothing will grow on
some of the land.

I remember the article mentioned "wind farms with a total area roughly
equal to the area of California."  Replace "wind farm" with "solar
farm?"

If you ran a really good set of power lines north to south through the
whole state hitting just the good places to put wind farms, nearly all
the power could come from wind.  It is always blowing somewhere

Nevada's in the middle of nowhere, and will need lots of HV power line
to the nearest city.

It may be better to do something with the power locally to make a high
energy material that is shipped by rail to where the power is needed.
If hydrogen wasn't so nasty to ship, it may work.


Potassium hydroxide? IIRC, alkaline cells depend on the stuff. Or,
ok, metallic sodium. Instant Hydrogen! Just add water! :D

M
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