Re: Using nuclear power to make renewables and a hydrogen economy cost effective

From: charliew2 (charliew2_at_ev1.net)
Date: 11/01/04 

Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:30:38 -0600

Alex Terrell <alexterrell@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "charliew2" <charliew2@ev1.net> wrote in message
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> > Alex Terrell wrote:
> > > "charliew2" <charliew2@ev1.net> wrote in message
> > > news:<10o9rptsn9a2n3f@corp.supernews.com>...
> > >
> > >>>
> > >>> Meanwhile, I'm continually amazed at how people with no experience
> > >>> of economics or business choose such a narrow definition of excess.
> > >>> If their trying to get rid of the stuff at below cost, that could be
> > >>> treated by excess. (I wonder if Ryanair considers the seats it sells
> > >>> for ?0.99 "excess seats").
> > >>
> > >> Those seats are a material thing. Electricity is energy. There's a
> > >> big difference.
> > >
> > > They are very similar as far as this discussion is concerned, as both
> > > cannot be stored and used later, and have very low marginal cost.
> >
> > So show me how you can store any significant amount of electricity.
Even a
> > big capacitor bank can only store a small amount, and only for dc
current.
> > If you have a storage device for ac current, I would really like to see
it.
> > Seats on the other hand, can be put in a warehouse for months, if
necessary.
> >
> I'm not sure if you're joking. When an airline talks about selling a
> seat, they mean a bum on a seat for a journey. The 747 taking off
> tomorrow has 412 (for example) seats. Any not used are wasted. I can't
> store them.

You really haven't a clue, do you? The airlines are selling a service. The
plane uses approximately the same amount of energy to fly its route with or
without that single passenger aboard. If a seat is empty, the airline loses
the ability to recoup some of its fuel costs, which is actually an energy
cost, and its efficiency goes down.

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