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Article #130Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
From: DPH
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00
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ant wrote: > why build huge centralized power plants when you can cover each house with > solar cells, pop a redox storage battery on the corner and bob's your > auntie, cellular power grid. Standard power service is 200 amps / 240 volts nowdays. I want to see you pay for, and have room for, 48 KW worth of power, available 24 - 7, in continuous streams that don't rely on batteries that are being discharged faster than the solar can recharge them. Pretend the air conditioner is running, the homeowner is watering the lawn with the 240 volt deep well pump located 400 feet below the surface, and may be building something involving his arc welder. Meanwhile his wife is preparing dinner on the 240 volt electric range while the clothes are drying in the 240 volt electric dryer. And the electric hot water heater is still in its cycle from the showers everyone took eariler. That's a lot more than 48KW of solar cells, and a _lot_ of expensive batteries. Better to have solar farms built by, and battery-backed up by, the power companies and distributed so we don't all have to become electrical engineers to deal with our power needs. DPH
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ecc0,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ecc0,public X-Google-Thread: 107e5d,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid107e5d,public X-Google-Thread: 10c480,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c480,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 102359,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid102359,public X-Google-Thread: fb19c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb19c,public From: DPH <rally2xs@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste Date: 2000/06/01 Message-ID: <3936406C.2C10949E@compuserve.com> X-Deja-AN: 629825438 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8f1vof$fas$1@possum.melbpc.org.au> <8f2n6g$61p$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> <39162523@news.rivernet.com.au> <957754941.595999@server.tarms.com> <shf6v3i05uh22@corp.supernews.com> <39186F24.9D1EBB6A@tcac.net> <957915161.274368@server.tarms.com> <8fa92n$f2i$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net> <8F30661E4bnesheimonlineno@148.122.208.74> <_RcS4.38598$Xk2.139664@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <8F3097C58bnesheimonlineno@148.122.208.74> <OQdS4.38606$Xk2.139672@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <958003425.891133@server.tarms.com> <8fcukc$ <391C48E0.27163060@boeing.com> <N4mT4.40348$Xk2.143903@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <hlVX4.6296$Ym2.167177@typhoon2.ba-dsg.net> <8h0paj$dqu$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net> <39345a3a.58079449@news.bigpond.com> <8h3kjd$h2l$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net> <_5qZ4.5999$N4.227441@ozemail.com.au> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.engineering.nuclear,aus.environment.misc,aus.politics,sci.energy,sci.engr.mining,sci.environment.waste