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Article #45Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
From: Graham Cowan
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 00:00
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� Don Libby wrote: > "D.A.Kopf" wrote: > > > > Don Libby wrote: > > > > > > Yes indeed.� A huge proportion (near 70%) of electricity generated is > > > lost through transmission and distribution.� I suspect that fuel > > > requirements for electric power would be greatly reduced with improved > > > transmission and distribution techniques and organization. > > > > Weren't you citing 3% T&D losses a while back? What changed your mind? > > > > No, I don't think that was me, I've known about huge T&D losses for > several years now.� Not sure precisely how losses break down among > conversion, transmission and distribution, but "In the end, for every > three units of energy that are converted to create electricity, only > about one unit actually reaches the end user." > http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/eh1998/eh1998.html But it's helpful to distinguish the heat engine loss of 55 to 67 percent, which is independent of transmission distance, with the comparatively small transmission losses that follow. Mark Kinsler was saying he expects transplanetary DC electrical transmission to come into being.� I wonder what sort of per-thousand-km loss rate that will have.� I was looking at marine bulk carriers with my, and everyone's, favorite chemical element, boron, and they lost about 0.4 percent per megametre. � --------------------------------------------------------------- $1 uranium = ca. $124 petroleum = ca. $111 natural gas. Electricity? Hydrogen?�No, the indirect nukemobile power-taps distant reactors through the fifth element, ~boron~.� See http://members.xoom.com/I2M/boron_blast.html or http://www.eagle.ca/~gcowan/boron_blast.html . --------------------------------------------------------------- � �
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII 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: 102359,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid102359,public X-Google-Thread: fb19c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb19c,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public From: Graham Cowan <gcowan@eagle.ca> Subject: Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste Date: 2000/06/12 Message-ID: <39456952.D4A1D6E0@eagle.ca> X-Deja-AN: 633745624 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <8f2n6g$61p$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> <391C48E0.27163060@boeing.com> <N4mT4.40348$Xk2 <3939da71.57203458@news.bigpond.com> <1ai%4.1367$vV5.8002@newsfeed.slurp.net> <393e22ee.49400070@news.bigpond.com> <xys%4.7180$qS3.18260@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <393E730F.2F71D6CD@tds.net> <CCX%4.7945$qS3.20020@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <3940d93f.51465324@news.bigpond.com> <qqq05.8588$qS3.21579@tor-nn1.netcom.ca> <iKr05.13141$N4.476133@ozemail.com.au> <Q%r05.12523$F9.386702@news1.gvcl1.bc.home.com> <3942D053.82030642@dakx.com> <mp%05.13951$F9.438649@news1.gvcl1.bc.home.com> <3944DC10.12B11F08@dakx.com> <3944F2EA.787CC142@tds.net> <39450CCD.FA64020F@dakx.com> <394519D1.10E634C6@tds.net> <39454A7D.421998A4@dakx.com> <39455AF5.E59D5251@tds.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined X-Complaints-To: abuse@odyssey.on.ca X-Trace: mur2.odyssey.on.ca 960850504 480 209.167.59.124 (12 Jun 2000 22:55:04 GMT) Organization: Odyssey Network Inc, London, ON, Canada Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: gcowan@eagle.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Jun 2000 22:55:04 GMT Newsgroups: alt.engineering.nuclear,aus.environment.misc,aus.politics,sci.energy,sci.engr.mining,sci.environment.waste