[ RadSafe ] Rational Thought

Tue Oct 4 11:45:00 CDT 2011

---- "Busby schrieb:
> Franz,
> It is not obvious to me from any of your emails that you know anything much at all.

Do you want to insult ,me??? I think I told you already once that somebody like you cannot insult me - if I have not, you know it nów. I do not waste my time with such a person like you, bringing up the old wrong story of child cancer and the other  bla,  bla, bla, which is only tiring and has been long ago proved to be wrong.

Interesting to read about your expertise - but unfortunately it is not in the radioactivity field, which is obvious far from your agitation.  

Could you refrain from your claims of being an expert on everything? - Sorry - I know that you will not refrain, because this is an important part of your income!

Franz

> Since the wind energy is free any loss of efficiency has to be considered in that context. What is the efficiency of a sailing yacht? It gets you from A to B without any outlay on fuel. What, for example is the efficiency of nuclear power? A meaningless question. And if you bring in all the cancer children near the nuclear sites, the disposal of the waste etc., its efficiency is probably negative.  The efficiency of hydrogen production from electrolysis is very high. The efficiency of burning hydrogen in a heat engine is Carnot-based dQ/T.  What you may like to know is that I am a Physical Chemist and Chemical Physicist, was responsible at Wellcome for and was the expert on Thermodynamics, I also ran the electrochemical laboratory and my 2nd PhD was in Raman Spectroelectrochemistry. I am sorry that I know so much, but that's not my problem, its just a consequence of much study and hard work in many areas.
> I do enjoy our little exchanges. Keep up the insults. Most entertaining.
> Best regards
> Chris
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu on behalf of franz.schoenhofer at chello.at
> Sent: Tue 04/10/2011 13:05
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List; The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) MailingList
> Cc: Busby, Chris
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Rational Thought
>  
> Chris,
> 
> Ever heard the words "efficiency"? If you ever heard anything about hydrogen production by electrolysis and its efficiency (it has to be burnt to deliver energy) or the overall efficiency of pumped storage - please enlighten us. I know obviously a little more about this than you! 
> 
> Best regards to everyone except our raman spectroscopist!
> 
> Franz
> 
> 
> ---- "Busby schrieb:
> > Store wind: Hydrogen from electrolysis; pumped storage.
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu on behalf of Steven Dapra
> > Sent: Mon 03/10/2011 03:28
> > To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Rational Thought
> >  
> > Oct. 2
> > 
> >          Where do you propose to store all this wind so that it can 
> > be used when it is needed?
> > 
> >          What does this ruthenium iron alloy have to do with 
> > anything?  Ruthenium is a rare metal (74th most common), and only 
> > about 12 tons are mined per year.  Mined --- and we all know how much 
> > Greens like mining.
> > 
> >          See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruthenium for more.  Ru can 
> > be extracted from spent nuclear fuels.  Heh, heh.  Seriously --- it 
> > can.  Let's build nukes to get Ru so we can use wind power.  Rube 
> > Goldberg, where are you when we need you?
> > 
> > Steven Dapra
> > 
> > 
> > At 12:05 PM 10/2/2011, you wrote:
> > >Franz Schoenhofer wrote:
> > >
> > > > What has "nuclear" and "rational thought" to do with each other?
> > > >
> > > > In my home country Austria, there is legislation underway to forbid
> > > > import of "nuclear electricity" and even more, electricity generation
> > > > from non-renewable sources should be abandoned at the latest until 2050.
> > > >...
> > > > I am not joking, this is the idea of our parliament, initiated by the very
> > > > small minority of greens.
> > >
> > >Could this be because wind power has become two cents per kilowatt
> > >hour less expensive than coal-fired generation over the past year?  Also
> > >Fischer-Tropsch carbon neutral methane and other fuel synthesis has
> > >become far more efficient in the past three or four years due to a new
> > >ruthenium iron alloy which can be plated on to electrolysis anodes.
> > >Given that sufficient wind to address daytime needs produces a huge
> > >nighttime surplus, the effective cost of fuel synthesis for transportation
> > >and storage (for intermittent wind leveling) is lower than fossil cost, too.
> > >
> > >At least in the US, this year wind turbine production and orders have
> > >exceeded the extrapolation of its exponential curve, which would now
> > >predict that virtually 100% of US power will be from wind before 2030.
> > >Even without any subsidies, it is foolish for any farm in even low wind
> > >regions to forgo installing turbines, banks are on board, and in windy
> > >regions they pay for themselves in eight months without subsidies.
> > >
> > >But I agree with the sentiment:  When the pendulum swings, it often
> > >swings too far.  Most everyone is going to be as surprised as I am to
> > >find me on the other side of the debate as we struggle to hold on to
> > >enough research reactors to produce medical isotopes and plutonium
> > >for the space program.
> > >
> > >Sincerely,
> > >James Salsman
> > 
> > 
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A-1160 Vienna
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