French Nuclear = Solar/Sterling

From: Brad Guth (ieisbradguth_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/16/05 

Date: 16 Mar 2005 12:09:09 -0800

http://www.ameren.com/AboutUs/ADC_au_CallawayGuide.asp
Callaway Plant Facts and Statistics
Plant is five miles north of the Missouri River on a plateau 300 feet
above the normal river level. AmerenUE owns 7,200 acres of land at the
site.

Nuclear plants may supposedly offer very compact sites of 500 to 1000
acres. However, that's just for their primary structures and not
inclusive of what really transpires.

At least 5,000 acres are directly and/or indirectly involved with the
Callaway plant, not including the river and ground-water aspects or the
what-if downwind zone that may have to remain off-limits if we allowed
another Three Mile Island screw-up.

Obviously some of the required Callaway land is of such highly
restricted usage, whereas such it has been administered by the Missouri
Department of Conservation which imposes little if any human activity.
The remaining 2200 acres is actually a somewhat required DMZ or
otherwise unusable because of the relationship with the infrastructure
of this nuclear power plant.

Callaway generating capacity; 1,126 megawatts (net)
At a cost of $3 billion + somewhat overall spendy operational cost per
MW
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A typical American nuclear reactor power plant at 1.126e9 watts per
2.9e7 m2 = .388e2 w/m2

388 w/m2 isn't all that terrific but, it isn't terribly bad. However,
that hasn't taken into account for their fair share of the necessary
square miles and required energy worth of whatever's involved with
mining-out such raw nuclear elements, various transporting aspects on
behalf of the partially refined substance, then into a final refinement
plant and eventually repackaged at a fuel-rod production facility, all
of which are rather substantial energy and space consuming process and,
don't forget about the potential recycling of said fuel-rods and/or
long-term storage that really sucks not only enormous space but
big-time energy and bucks to boot, and to top all that off, it seems
that no one wants that nasty stuff within their backyard, or anywhere
nearby (perhaps on the moon would still be too damn close).

Then there's the beforehand and secondary industries that are essential
and thereby necessary for accomplishing these massive constructions and
then continually maintaining of said reactor sites, not to mention DHS
aspects that have recently (since 9/11) gone entirely through their
containment walls with no apparent end in sight.

Thus I'd have to suggest that the outcome of what a typical nuclear
power plant represents per square meter is an honest to God capability
of providing continuous energy at the rate of roughly half of the above
388 w/m2, thus we're obtaining from the overall grand long-haul basis
of 194 w/m2, which is roughly the same as for what the average
solar/sterling process has been capable of providing. Not that every
other reactor site is this space consuming (some are actually worse off
while others are more compact), nor is it impossible to cut that
infrastructure expanse down to a tenth that amount, as obviously the
energy density per m2 of what's within an aircraft carrier or that of a
submarine are perfectly good examples of what's obtainable.

Of course, with the solar/sterling process we don't have to open-pit
dig up half the countryside, process through megatonnes and haul those
remains another half way across country, running it through another
half dozen refinements and extremely energy consuming processes before
getting such worthy elements repackaged into those usable fuel-rods,
that which again needs to become extremely well packaged for shipment
and transported at some risk over and through just about every other
state in the union. Of course, the secondary byproducts of this overall
process are somewhat testy, thereby damn expensive to deal with and
indirectly consuming a horrific amount of space that can't be safely
utilized by humanity for perhaps tens of thousands of years, or untill
we get half as smart as those French scientist that resolved their
storage and reprocessing issues decades ago and haven't the need to
look back ever since.

As I've suggested that 5.1e11 m2 (0.1% of this Earth) at an average
conversion rate of 200 w/m2 having been obtainable via solar/sterling
is certainly offering an impressive energy resolve at eventually
delivering a clean 15.7 kw for each of 6.5e9 souls upon Earth.

Solar/sterling units can certainly be community if not residential
class of structures, under which folks and all other life as we know of
can manage quite nicely (some even better off than without), without
ever the need of imposing any DMZ or other expanse of land made
unusable by the fact of security issues or having something other to do
with the solar/sterling process. Millions of small units represents
fewer (if any) widespread blackouts, and demanding of smaller and
thereby a more energy efficient power grids represents other multiple
advantages. All of the secondary process heat can be directly stored
and/or utilized as-is without fear of compromising the individual
sterling power unit, nor creating any threat upon your neighbor or of
the surrounding environment. Being situated downwind means absolutely
nothing should a sterling/hydrogen boiler decide to blow off a little
excess pressure.

This is not myself stipulating that we shouldn't have become 75%
nuclear, especially if that's accomplished via French reactors that
would demand less than a tenth the area nor cost a forth as much. After
all, we already have way more than our fair share of the stockpiles of
weapons-grade material that can be effectively reprocessed into reactor
fuel-rods, thus the fuel has already been bought and paid for several
times over. If anything, it seems our government should be paying
private utility plants to be utilizing what's already ours, instead of
having that stuff expensively stored with real WMD and those
subsequently stored within our WW-III class of facilities and tactical
deployment means by which some insane warlord might actually put to
good use without a stitch of remorse.

Being honestly 15% nuclear simply doesn't cut it, at least not at our
present rate of mass consumption. However, it doesn't help when our
government continually lies to us by way of stipulating that we're so
much as 20% nuclear, as that's only after significant industries were
either forced out of business because they simply could not afford
and/or obtain a sufficient supply of electricity, and/or having been
forced into conversions of creating their own energy by burning local
and imported LNG, coal and oil (by far creating more secondary
radiation pollution per GW by many factors greater dosage than the
worst possible nuclear reactors). The other nuclear physics energy joke
that each home consumes merely a kilowatt, as this is also based upon
disinformation-R-us lies, whereas most homes must incorporate
potentially lethal and polluting NG, Propane, oil and/or many still are
having to burn wood or even corn as their major source of energy
because, our present day power grid absolutely sucks, as in entirely
insufficient and overloaded at that, thereby at continued risk of wide
area blackouts and/or rolling-blackouts as a result of the incompetence
and greed that starts at the very top (meaning energy sucking warlord
GW Bush) and thereby infects the entire power grid down to those of us
consumers which can't hardly pay our mortgage/rent, food nor medication
overhead as it is.

With a thousand of the French 1.0~1.5 GW reactors that shouldn't take
10% of the area nor 25% of the cost, and lo and behold, we could
restart processing quality aluminum, alloy steels, glass and hopefully
processing basalt into valuable fibers and micro-sphere composites that
the entire would could have utilized decades ago. With whatever's
surplus energy from these new reactors and from the eventual farms of
solar/sterling energy going into the grid for the production, storage
and distribution of liquified hydrogen.

Thus nuclear and solar/sterling is still our best bet until we've
figured out exactly how to lay our energy consuming hands on lunar He3,
or otherwise extract and transfer tether dipole energy from the
LSE-CM/ISS, as anything moon related is still off-limits and/or
need-to-know 'nondisclosure' due to our perpetrated cold-war for profit
that sucks the very life and whatever related energy out of humanity,
leaving mother Earth polluted to a fairlywell and global warming as a
result of all that.

Basic township that's situated upon Venus:
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm
Basic LSE (Lunar Space Elevator)
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm
Other available topics by; Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm

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