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[JPreisig at aol.com]

Dear Radsafe,
 
      From:   _jpreisig at aol.com_ (mailto:jpreisig at aol.com)    
 
      Hey all,
 
            Most  energy/power systems have some downside.  Electric cars 
will have the  downside of
how to recycle all those car batteries.  Solar cells will have the  
downside of what to do with them
when their working life is over --- will they go in a landfill???
 
           Nuclear power  needs an express lane (like at the food 
market???!!!) --- maybe the  mini-nuke
plants being marketed are one way to go.  All the secrecy and security  
clearances around
the nuclear industry are absolutely killing the nuclear industry --- I  
understand the need for secrecy
and security clearances.  But nuclear power is just a highly evolved  
technology to warm or
boil water.  EPA types etc. are terrified of nuclear reactors.   They need 
more of the right kind of
radiation education.  Frank Haughey used to refer to them as the fishy  
people.  Thanks for the 
Memories and the Education, Frank.  Thanks so much, Dr. H.
 
          Wonder if they are  finding and recovering all that Platinum off 
the coast of New England  right
now.  Billions and Billions (Thank You, Carl Sagan!) of   $$$.
 
         Investment money burning a  hole in your pocket???  Diamonds in 
Canada.  Gold in
Canada/Alaska.  Emeralds in Columbia (too bad it is so  unstable).  All 
kinds of minerals in
Brazil.  New oil finds at depth in the Gulf of Mexico.  New Oil  and 
Natural Gas finds in Kansas,the
Dakotas, Texas and Oklahoma (depth 10,000 feet???).
 
        Always wondered why the 2  Princeton educated geologists at 
Binghamton were always
slipping off to South America.  Guess I know the answer now.   Wonder how 
many emeralds one
can hide in a shaving kit????
 
        A rather young geology woman  named Ira??? was responsible for the 
big diamond
finds in Canada.  Wonder if she has retired already???  If I had  a kid, 
I'd make him/her learn Spanish
and send him/her to a South American University.  Was all that fuss  over 
the Falkland Islands really
about petroleum???
 
       Geez, weren't Africa and South America  (with their mineral wealth) 
joined together in early
plate tectonics.
 
      Too much geology now, so I'll end.
 
      Regards,       Joseph R. (Joe) Preisig, PhD
 
     
 
 
In a message dated 6/2/2012 7:10:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
terryj at iit.edu writes:

Solar  thermal at least has some built-in storage capacity. One would think 
that that  would play some role. 

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On Jun 2, 2012, at  5:57 PM, ROY HERREN <royherren2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/40460/?p1=A3
> 
> I think  it's interesting that China's "investment" into solar 
electricity 
>  generation has had such a disruptive effect in the market place.  "Even  
as the 
> project nears completion, the future of solar thermal power  plants is in 
doubt. 
> That’s in large part because prices for solar  panels—which convert 
sunlight to 
> electricity directly—have dropped  quickly in the last few years, causing 
at 
> least one company to  abandon plans to build solar thermal plants in 
favor of 
> making ones  that use solar panels".  I think that it's important to 
remember 
>  that Solyndra didn't go bankrupt because of a technology failure in 
their  design 
> or product, but rather they went bankrupt because they  couldn't compete 
on a 
> financial basis with the downward spiral in the  price of solar panels 
being 
> shipped to the US from China.  Only  time will tell which technology will 
win out 
> in the long run.  I  am forever reminded of the battle between and Sony 
and the 
> other  electronic manufactures over Beta vs. VHS video tape decks.  The 
>  "so-called" better technology lost out to the power of the majority of 
the  
> market place.  The amusing thing is that today the consumer  market for 
video 
> tape decks is all but dead.  My but the market  and the technology hawked 
there 
> is a fickle place.  How will  Nuclear Power, fission, fare in the long 
run?  Is 
> there any  chance the Chinese government can be talked into investing 
billions of  
> dollars into Nuclear Power and thereby reducing the price of global  
Nuclear 
> Power?  If so, would we trust the reliability of Chinese  manufactured 
> Nuclear Power plants?  If there is a question of  trustworthiness, why 
are 
> consumers trusting the reliability of  Chinese manufactured photovoltaic 
solar 
> panels? 
> Roy Herren  
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