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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.212045.25005@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <1992Dec30.195749.11721@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1992Dec31.164918.22167@vexcel.com> <51730@seismo.CSS.GOV>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:20:45 GMT
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- In article <51730@seismo.CSS.GOV> stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec31.164918.22167@vexcel.com>, dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >> In article <1992Dec31.024353.15278@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino) writes:
- >> >In article <1992Dec30.211459.28435@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >> >I couldn't see solar and wind supporting a country of 10-20 million or more,
- >> >and I wouldn't want to be in Bangladesh when a typhoon carries off the
- >> >country's entire capacity of solar panels.
- >>
- >> I woudln't want to be in Bangladesh when a typhoon carries off a
- >> containment structure.
- >
- >No comparison. Containment structures are designed to withstand the strongest
- >tornadoes - a mere typhoon would simply give the plant a nice bath. However,
- >solar panels must be openly exposed to the sun to work. This leaves them
- >vulnerable to being blown all over the countryside by strong winds. Just
- >look at some of the stuff our last big hurricane did in Florida. That's
- >exactly what a typhoon does. The solar demonstration project out in the
- >Mojave in California does not need to worry about such storms, it will
- >never experience one. Bangladesh does have nuclear power and it has not
- >been carried away in the typhoons they get every year.
-
- Okay, I can accept that. Someone e-mailed to me to say that India has
- a home-grown nuclear industry but I guess Bangladesh wouldn't get
- technology from them. If this is working for Bangladesh (and India),
- I have no problems with it.
- >
- >--
- >Richard Stead
- >Center for Seismic Studies
- >Arlington, VA
- >stead@seismo.css.gov
-
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