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

From: Joshua Halpern (vze23qvd_at_verizon.net)
Date: 11/02/04 

Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 01:26:53 GMT

charliew2 wrote:
> Alex Terrell <alexterrell@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>"charliew2" <charliew2@ev1.net> wrote in message
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>>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.
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> 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.

The trick is that a lot of people can arrange their schedules to fly one
leg at the zero price, but not the other. It is marketing.

OTOH, there is a fuel cost to every pound as is pointed out by others.

josh halpern
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