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- From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)
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- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.210611.27511@kestrel.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 21:06:11 GMT
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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:
- >>
- >>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.
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- I'll second that.
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- Containment structures are robust concrete walls tens of feet thick.
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- I sure wouldn't want to be ANYWHERE where there were typhoons that could carry
- off containment structures.
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- Fortunately there are no such places on this planet. If we inhabit Jupiter
- i'll rethink this.
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- However, solar panels are designed to occupy area and need to be light enpough
- to steer.
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- -dk
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