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

From: Ian St. John (istjohn_at_noemail.usa)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:08:29 -0400

Dan Bloomquist wrote:
> Ian St. John wrote:
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>>> I thought the point was pretty obvious.
>>
>> Point? What point????
>
> Sorry you missed it. Where are you going to cultivate a net output of
> 30 billion barrels? How about 1 billion barrels, which would account
> for maybe a year's growth in demand. Think about it.

Are you trying to set up a strawman that we must base all energy on a single
energy source? Where does this idiocy come from? Do you have some illusion
that our present energy infrastructure is purely based on crude oil???

If you want a total solution than I suggest solar power satellites and
synthesis of fuels from raw electricity. Metallic zinc might make a suitable
storage system that can drive mobile vehicles. However, that is a bit far
ranging at this point I wouldn't trust NASA with anywhere near that kind of
development responsibility.

Ground solar, however, could provide most of the energy needs using about 7%
of the Sonoran desert, though it is a lot of money to invest. The problem is
not that there are no solutions but that everyone is doing the same 'blame
game' diversion as you to say that nothing *can* be done because nothing
*is* being done. Stupid, but then you have human nature which tends to
promote such one dimensional conventional answers despite the fact that the
*end is near* and someone is going to be left holding the 'hot potatoe' of
moving to sustainable energies.

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