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- From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.024353.15278@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Dec30.182038.26674@vexcel.com> <1992Dec30.195749.11721@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1992Dec30.211459.28435@vexcel.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 02:43:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.211459.28435@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >efficiency has the shortest installation time. This is all
- >for the U.S. The developing world will need new capacity soon (if not
- >now). I would argue that they would be best served by smaller scale
- >generation and solar and wind tend to serve them well since they have
- >little or no grid, but that is their decision to make.
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- When developing countries begin to industrialize, their electricity needs
- will quickly outgrow what is available with solar and wind technology.
- What then? Large units for baseload power, accented with smaller scale
- generation for peak loads, etc.
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- 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.
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- BTW, the countries that are growing very rapidly, like Thailand and Korea,
- are investing heavily in next-generation nuclear plants. Perhaps the US will
- be buying its technology from _them_.
-
- Tino
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