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Article #66Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste
From: Mark Kinsler
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 00:00
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Greig Ebeling <greige@bigpond.com> wrote: >I compare this to the price I pay for my electricity and natural gas >purchased from a utility, and I scoff at people who think that solar >power is going to be a big thing in the future. It isn't, it is way >too expensive. > >BTW, notice how this would still be really expensive if solar panels >were much cheaper. School science texts still push solar energy, and with great vigor. I've asked science classes in schools located along the Ohio River, center of electric power production in the USA, how electricity is produced. Every kid thinks it's by solar energy. M Kinsler -- ............................................................................ 114 Columbia Ave. Athens, Ohio USA 45701 voice740.594.3737 fax740.592.3059 Home of the "How Things Work" engineering education program. See http://www.frognet.net/~kinsler
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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: 10df0c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 102359,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid102359,public X-Google-Thread: 10c480,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c480,public X-Google-Thread: fb19c,76584cf5b626f783 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb19c,public From: kinsler@frognet.net (Mark Kinsler) Subject: Re: Disposal of Radioactive Waste Date: 2000/06/07 Message-ID: <1ai%4.1367$vV5.8002@newsfeed.slurp.net> X-Deja-AN: 631984623 References: <8f2n6g$61p$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net> <391C48E0.27163060@boeing.com> <N4mT4.40348$Xk2 <3939da71.57203458@news.bigpond.com> X-Trace: newsfeed.slurp.net 960343805 204.192.96.16 (Tue, 06 Jun 2000 21:10:05 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 21:10:05 CDT Newsgroups: alt.engineering.nuclear,aus.environment.misc,aus.politics,sci.energy,sci.engr.mining,sci.environment.waste