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- From: stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead)
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- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <51730@seismo.CSS.GOV>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 20:58:06 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.195749.11721@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1992Dec31.164918.22167@vexcel.com>
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- 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.
-
- > >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?
-
- France, Japan, whatever. Any western nation with a sane nuclear policy.
-
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- --
- Richard Stead
- Center for Seismic Studies
- Arlington, VA
- stead@seismo.css.gov
-