Originally posted by: Fear No Evil
Topic Title: Now Solar power is out with the radical left.
Ok.. so coal is out, too dirty.. oil is out, too dirty.. wind is out.. kills the birds.. nuclear is out.. too dangerous.. and now, solar panels.. kills the aethetics of the desert..
Sheesh!!! How you get that bullshit from the article is beyond reality. I noticed you were too chicken to quote from the article, which says NOTHING about the dreaded "left" or abandoning solar power. The question is about how to protect environmentally sensitive wildlands when planning for the location of new solar production facilities. The key paragraphs:
Douglas said that if the national monument lines were drawn without consideration of renewable energy then a conflict was likely, but it's early enough in the planning process that she's confident the state will be able to get more solar and wind projects up and running without hurting the environment.
"We think we can do both," Douglas said. "We think this is an opportunity to accelerate both."
Your title and your entire post are a crock! :thumbsdown:
Whats left? Magic Pixie Dust?[/quote]
Is that what you're smoking? :shocked:
Originally posted by: K3N
3 mile island.. an orchestrated event to bad mouth cost efficient nuclear energy and preserve anglo american dominance in the coal industry and promote reactionary Luddite thinking.
Another lying tinfoil beany tard
opens his mouth to change feet.
Three Mile Island accident
The Three Mile Island accident of 1979 was a partial core meltdown in Unit 2 (a pressurized water reactor manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox) of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania near Harrisburg. It was the most significant accident in the history of the American commercial nuclear power generating industry, resulting in the release of an estimated 43,000 curies (1.59 PBq) of radioactive krypton, but less than 20 curies (740 GBq) of the particularly hazardous iodine-131
Various analyses after the fact concluded that this event caused no significant increase in health problems among nearby residents. The good news is, they were lucky... that time. The other side of the same coin was the disaster at Chernobyl, which is not the only recorded incident of serious accidental radiological contamination from nuclear power facilities.
Maybe you'd like to live next to a faulty nuke plant for a few years, after which you'd never have to wonder about your next job. If the plant leaked, you could always get a job as a night light. :light:
Originally posted by: JohnnyGage
Would love some, but it would take 20 years to make up the cost of installing them.
Solar power generation is a relatively young area of scientific research, and conversion efficiency is quickly rising, and
conversion to electricity is not the only means to utilize solar power.
UALR Nano Team Tackles Solar Energy
updated 2:46 p.m. PT, Wed., March. 18, 2009
Researchers at UALR report they have developed a process involving nanostructure that shows great promise in boosting the efficiency of titania photoanodes used to convert solar energy into hydrogen in fuel cells.
Hydrogen, the third most abundant element on earths surface, has long been recognized as the ultimate alternative to fossil fuels as an energy carrier.
Automobiles using hydrogen directly or in fuel cells have already been developed, but the biggest challenge has been how to produce hydrogen using renewable sources of energy.
Scientists in Japan discovered in 1970 that semiconductor oxide photoanodes can harness the photons from solar radiation and used them to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen, but process was too inefficient to be viable.
The UALR team, working with researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno, and supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Arkansas Science and Technology Authority (ASTA), has reported an 80-percent increase in efficiency with a new process.
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The above is just one example of recent articles I've seen about both increased conversion efficiency and better means of storing power derived from solar sources. Beyond that, concentrated power generation sources are only one business model. Another currently in use is co-generation where each house/building/facility has its own solar panels. Any power not used by the building is fed back to the common power pool on the grid, and the meter runs both ways, reducing the power bill for the building generating excess power.
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