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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.164918.22167@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <1992Dec30.195749.11721@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1992Dec30.211459.28435@vexcel.com> <1992Dec31.024353.15278@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:49:18 GMT
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- 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:
- >>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.
- >
- >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.
-
- If storage technology improves, then solar and wind may be useful for
- baseload. If not, nuclear may be there best choice.
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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_.
-
- Where are they getting their technology from?
- >
- >Tino
- >--
- > "Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders..." - J.D.
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Purdue University School of Nuclear Engineering
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