Actually, if you investigate this, and don't work for some one in nuclear energy, I think you would find this perfectly sound. Our existing grid works both ways.
NAS batteries have Sodium metal, and sulfur inside. Large installations are cost effective and have a long life.
Really.
We don't need to build another uranium water/water nuclear plant ever.
what we do need is to insure the operators pay for cleaning up the existing ones, and pay in perpetuity to store the nuclear waste they have made without US, the tax payeres footing the bill.
Not only that, we should be looking at new computerized internet electric meters, and laws that would require utilities to pay fair market value for electricity produced by small private generators. Little 5KW vertical turbines everywhere. Then, just put huge battery installations where the old coal plants are, and we are on the road to green energy.
Not today obviously, but it would grow. And new nuke plants would just not be needed. At least Uranium water/water plants. Thorium / Pebble Bed Reactors might be an option for the future.
Sorry. Switched reluctance motors have from double to 7 times the torque per pound of weight as rare earth magnet brush less dc motors. Also your typical Li-ion (Lithium cobalt) batteries can not come close to the peak power output, or regenerative charge rate as the Toshiba SCiB batteries.
I'd say this was a case of talking through your ass.
I just got a "new" Boxee Box from Amazon that had some one's name in the accounts. To bad he didn't subscribe to Netflix. How come big business can sell used things as new?
If I return something. It should never be able to be sold as new again!
The New Madrid fault (along the Mississippi River) is about to pop. It has a history of extremely violent earthquakes. None of the structures built near it were designed with tremors in mind. Ill bet there are Nuke plants along it.
I can only hope this will help put an end to any new water/water nuclear power plants being planned or built, and get people thinking of de-commisioning the existing ones. This isn't 1955. We know better, We have alternatives. It's time to bury ALL of these dinosaurs.
HP hired the guy from Nokia that was the driving force behind Maemo. He's really good. Really. I get the feeling that there have been dirty tricks going on at Nokia for a while, like destroying Maemo for the non existent and basically useless on the ARM MeeGo. I think it was a Microsoft plot leading to what is about to happen, but then I wear Tinfoil.
Except the guy behind Nokia's Maemo, left Nokia and is now in charge of WebOS for HP. Nokia is the one that is screwed stuck between a good but aging Symbian that they just took back to proprietary, the useless Chinese made MeeGo that may work on Intel hardware but is internally sabotaged on ARM, and the new Nokia overlord from Microsoft about to ditch everything and make all Nokia's Windows fone 7 handsets that no one will want.
They have a monopoly and they just don't care. The FCC and FTC were so weakened by the Bush administration that our government can do nothing to help protect the citizens that elected them.
"What about those people who continue to listen to it over and over and enjoy it but still don't buy it?" -
There are always those few than take advantage of life. I do not think they are the majority. If they do, then I feel it is a civil issue and you need to find them, and take individual civil action on your own.
Or, don't worry about it because most people will be honest, and that should be enough.
I can understand taking some one's copyrighted works and selling it as a counterfeit being illegal and just morally wrong. That, is stealing. I do not buy into the argument perpetrated by the BSA and **IA that sharing something without any compensation is wrong at all. This "if you saw or heard something I did, you owe me money" is as ridicules as it is constantly pounded into the public by these greedy people/organizations. I'm sorry, if I like it, then I will buy it, but if I just hear, or see, or tryout something and think it is shit! I do not owe you any money.
I find it amazing that the anti sharing campaign that of course has assimilated the bought and paid for legislators has been adopted by any rationally thinking person.
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If you look at NGK's applications, you will see the typical NAS batteries they sell are 2 MW each. How many would you need?
Actually, if you investigate this, and don't work for some one in nuclear energy, I think you would find this perfectly sound. Our existing grid works both ways.
NAS batteries have Sodium metal, and sulfur inside. Large installations are cost effective and have a long life.
Really.
We don't need to build another uranium water/water nuclear plant ever.
what we do need is to insure the operators pay for cleaning up the existing ones, and pay in perpetuity to store the nuclear waste they have made without US, the tax payeres footing the bill.
Wind / Solar along with NAS batteries -> http://www.ngk.co.jp/english/products/power/nas/index.html - really could handle our base load. Certainly the percentage that we in the US use nuclear for.
Not only that, we should be looking at new computerized internet electric meters, and laws that would require utilities to pay fair market value for electricity produced by small private generators. Little 5KW vertical turbines everywhere. Then, just put huge battery installations where the old coal plants are, and we are on the road to green energy.
Not today obviously, but it would grow. And new nuke plants would just not be needed. At least Uranium water/water plants. Thorium / Pebble Bed Reactors might be an option for the future.
Sorry. Switched reluctance motors have from double to 7 times the torque per pound of weight as rare earth magnet brush less dc motors. Also your typical Li-ion (Lithium cobalt) batteries can not come close to the peak power output, or regenerative charge rate as the Toshiba SCiB batteries.
I'd say this was a case of talking through your ass.
Sorry.
Switched reluctance motors and Toshiba SCiB batteries.
As of today, there is no way to do it better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_reluctance_motor
http://www.toshiba.com/ind/product_display.jsp?id1=821
Just sayin'
It should then be sold as USED. For like 1/2 price.
I just got a "new" Boxee Box from Amazon that had some one's name in the accounts. To bad he didn't subscribe to Netflix. How come big business can sell used things as new?
If I return something. It should never be able to be sold as new again!
The New Madrid fault (along the Mississippi River) is about to pop. It has a history of extremely violent earthquakes. None of the structures built near it were designed with tremors in mind. Ill bet there are Nuke plants along it.
Solar and wind power are fine for base load power. just add batteries -> http://www.ngk.co.jp/english/products/power/nas/index.html
No, we can transfer all the Nuclear subsidies to solar and wind. How about that?
Solar and wind already cost less per KW than nuclear. I'd call that ready.
I am saying there are better nuclear technologies -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor
Like the Chinese HTR-10
I can only hope this will help put an end to any new water/water nuclear power plants being planned or built, and get people thinking of de-commisioning the existing ones. This isn't 1955. We know better, We have alternatives. It's time to bury ALL of these dinosaurs.
Rock, Paper, Taser! I win!
I wrote my opinion about this in my blog -> http://kurt555gs.blogspot.com/2011/02/it-looks-like-my-n8-will-be-my-last.html -
This saddens me as a long time Nokia customer.
The whole thing smells.
OK, you're right Goldess
HP hired the guy from Nokia that was the driving force behind Maemo. He's really good. Really. I get the feeling that there have been dirty tricks going on at Nokia for a while, like destroying Maemo for the non existent and basically useless on the ARM MeeGo. I think it was a Microsoft plot leading to what is about to happen, but then I wear Tinfoil.
In any case, WebOS is now something to watch.
PEBKAC!
Free as in Pr0n, not as in beer!
Except the guy behind Nokia's Maemo, left Nokia and is now in charge of WebOS for HP. Nokia is the one that is screwed stuck between a good but aging Symbian that they just took back to proprietary, the useless Chinese made MeeGo that may work on Intel hardware but is internally sabotaged on ARM, and the new Nokia overlord from Microsoft about to ditch everything and make all Nokia's Windows fone 7 handsets that no one will want.
Sux to be Nokia right now.
East St Louis! If I only had mod points.
They have a monopoly and they just don't care. The FCC and FTC were so weakened by the Bush administration that our government can do nothing to help protect the citizens that elected them.
Corporatism at work!
"What about those people who continue to listen to it over and over and enjoy it but still don't buy it?" -
There are always those few than take advantage of life. I do not think they are the majority. If they do, then I feel it is a civil issue and you need to find them, and take individual civil action on your own.
Or, don't worry about it because most people will be honest, and that should be enough.
I can understand taking some one's copyrighted works and selling it as a counterfeit being illegal and just morally wrong. That, is stealing. I do not buy into the argument perpetrated by the BSA and **IA that sharing something without any compensation is wrong at all. This "if you saw or heard something I did, you owe me money" is as ridicules as it is constantly pounded into the public by these greedy people/organizations. I'm sorry, if I like it, then I will buy it, but if I just hear, or see, or tryout something and think it is shit! I do not owe you any money.
I find it amazing that the anti sharing campaign that of course has assimilated the bought and paid for legislators has been adopted by any rationally thinking person.
Dumb! Sheep!
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