Re: Are nukes the answer to global warming?

From: Bill Bonde ( ''The chamber was in confusion, all the voices shouting loud'' ) (stderr2_at_backpacker.com)
Date: 02/06/05 

Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 16:01:40 -0800

Karl Johanson wrote:
>
> "Scott A Crosby" <scrosby@cs.rice.edu> wrote in message
> news:oyd4qgr9z30.fsf@bert.cs.rice.edu...
> > On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 03:11:30 GMT, Dan Bloomquist
> > <EXTRApublic21@lakeweb.com> writes:
> >
> >> Steve Spence wrote:
> >>
> >>> That's a lot of heat output. Tens of thousands of new nuke plants
> >>> generates a lot of thermal pollution
> >
> >> http://imartinez.etsin.upm.es/ot1/Scales.html
> >> Power in watts:
> >> Nuclear station 10^9
> >> Solar flux 1.5 x 10^17
> >
> > 35,000 nuclear stations would be needed to give 10 billion people a
> > lifestyle as energy-intensive as that of someone in the US.
>
> At what efficiency for the reactors?
>
Done right, electricity could be produced and transmitted via high
voltage direct current, waste heat from that could then be used to crack
water into hydrogen and finally the waste heat could be used for
industry and space heating requirements for entire cities. 

-- 
What I can't figure out is why no one seems to point out that while
private accounts won't solve the 2042 problem, perhaps they will push it
back a ways, they certainly will help solve the 2017 problem, when the
general fund has to start paying back its loans from Social Security
while the general fund is still, presumably, in massive deficit.

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