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From: William L. Bahn
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00
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Gordon McKenzie <gordmck@1.direct.ca.com> wrote in article <3426D89B.3822@direct.ca>... > Karl Denninger wrote: > > > > > You're doing this the hard way. > > > > Try mirrors (yes, mirrors). Use an array of them and focus the sun's energy > > from a large area (ie: a few acres) onto a water tank on top of a tower. > > > > Now use the energy you just concentrated to boil water (aka: steam). > > > > Use the superheated steam produced to drive a conventional turbine and > > produce electricity. > > > > I like this idea but I do have a couple of questions. > > The first may seem silly, but it was just a though. If a system like > this was built at a high elevation, less energy would be required to > create the steam and could the system be more efficient? > The steam is going to be in a closed and pressurized system so the lowered boiling point of water at altitude is not a factor. Even if it was, the system wouldn't be more efficient because the energy in the steam would be correspondingly less. > Is this system efficient enough to be economically practical? How large > would a system need to be to replace a nuclear reactor? > Probably several square kilometers of reflector area and a few times that in ground area.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e1e4,931b96b462da1f38 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e1e4,public X-Google-Thread: f4886,931b96b462da1f38 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4886,public X-Google-Thread: 10e4c9,931b96b462da1f38 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e4c9,public X-Google-Thread: 10b271,931b96b462da1f38 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-Thread: 1038c2,931b96b462da1f38 X-Google-Attributes: gid1038c2,public X-Google-Thread: 112f74,931b96b462da1f38 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f74,public X-Google-Thread: 103407,931b96b462da1f38 X-Google-Attributes: gid103407,public X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,931b96b462da1f38 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083c4,public From: "William L. Bahn" <bahn@pcisys.net> Subject: Re: Nuclear power far from clean Date: 1997/09/22 Message-ID: <01bcc7b3$ba3b67a0$0400a8c0@BAHN> X-Deja-AN: 274658633 References: <3421DF24.C26B8564@compact.com> <01bcc70c$bd572070$0400a8c0@BAHN> <6054uj$ni7$1@clarion.carno.net.au> <01bcc779$f78bdd40$0400a8c0@bahn> <6069ok$lbl$1@Jupiter.Mcs.Net> <3426D89B.3822@direct.ca> Organization: Dynasys Technical Services Newsgroups: sci.chem,sci.physics,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,ab.general,atl.general,aus.education,aus.electronics,aus.general,ba.general,bc.general,ca.general,can.general,carleton.general,chi.general,co.general