AW: [ RadSafe ] nuclear power is nowhere near green (was Re:Nukes are Green)

[Franz Schönhofer]

Interesting to read your contribution. So you are at the Defense Nuclear
Facilities Safety Board, you do not use any disclaimer, so this is not
your private but your employers opinion. Even more you complain that
your in-box is filling up. Enlarge it! Maybe you could add in future
mails the hint that this is the opinion of your employer. 

The thread you complain about is one of the most interesting ones during
the last months! If your employer does not like it ---- ???? 

Franz Schoenhofer
PhD, MR iR
Habicherg. 31/7
A-1160 Vienna
AUSTRIA
phone -43-0699-1168-1319


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im
> Auftrag von Dan Burnfield
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. April 2005 18:17
> An: james at bovik.org; John_Rich at fpl.com
> Cc: nicholas at nytimes.com; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] nuclear power is nowhere near green (was
Re:Nukes
> are Green)
> 
> This topic has little to do with radiation safety please take it
offline.
> It is filling up my in box.
> 
> Dan Burnfield, CHP PE
> 
> Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
> 625 Indiana Ave, NW Ste. 700
> Washington, DC  20004
> 
> Tel:  202.694.7113
> Fax: 202.208.6518
> Email danb at dnfsb.gov
> 
> >>> James Salsman <james at bovik.org> 4/12/2005 11:04 AM >>>
> John Rich wrote:
> 
> > If wind power is so good why isn't there more of it?
> 
> As Nicholas Kristof points out, a decade ago wind power cost five
> times as much per kilowatt-hour as it does today.  It is likely that
> the trend in turbine and windmill efficiencies will continue for at
> least the next three years.  A large portion of these improvements
> have been foreseeable, and some producers have waited to begin
> installing large scale wind power because of them.  Less than six
> months ago the Rocky Mountain News declared wind the least expensive
> form of new power generation.
> 
> The following analysis[1] was done by Jed Rothwell back in 2002,
> before wind power was more economical than natural gas-powered
> electricity:
> 
> > In 30 years world electricity requirements
> > will be ~3,500,000 MW (nameplate). Wind is now increasing at the
rate of
> > ~4,700 MW per year (nameplate). The average increase per year for
the
> last
> > decade has been ~25%, and that rate is increasing. It  will reach
~3.5
> > million MW in ~30 years. There are more than enough wind resources
in
> North
> > America, China, and Europe to power the entire world....  There are
> > no technical limitations that would prevent wind from meeting all
demand
> for
> > electricity.
> 
> [1]
> http://groups-
> beta.google.com/group/sci.physics.fusion/msg/ca09e18f0fd13173
> 
> Sincerely,
> James Salsman
> 
> 
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