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Article #761Re: ZERO Nuclear impact (was: Is car pooling for real? etc)
From: russell wallace
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 22:46
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 22:46
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In <1992Aug5.163953.4087@sei.cmu.edu> firth@sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes: >In article <1992Jul24.155039.8867@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes: >> Neither method is likely cost-effective in Virginia for the >> production of large amounts of power. And the leaf-blowers necessary >> for the solar collectors would raise a terrible racket ... >And, when you consider how much cheaper and more efficient a leaf is >than any man-made solar collector, the idea of replacing the one by >the other is a delicious irony. Crazy Eddie engineering at its finest. Slight observation here: the efficiency of a leaf in terms of amount of solar energy collected into usable form is less than 1%. Man-made solar cells can do 10%-20%. -- "To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem" Russell Wallace, Trinity College, Dublin rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie
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Newsgroups: sci.physics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!tcdcs!unix1.tcd.ie!rwallace From: rwallace@unix1.tcd.ie (russell wallace) Subject: Re: ZERO Nuclear impact (was: Is car pooling for real? etc) Message-ID: <rwallace.713054807@unix1.tcd.ie> Sender: usenet@cs.tcd.ie (NN required at ashe.cs.tcd.ie) Nntp-Posting-Host: unix1.tcd.ie Organization: Trinity College, Dublin References: <1992Jul23.222748.26019@cco.caltech.edu> <1992Jul24.150707.1246@vexcel.com> <1992Jul24.155039.8867@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug5.163953.4087@sei.cmu.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 22:46:47 GMT Lines: 20