Re: $5.00 Diesel - time to put her up on blocks!

heav turned on the Etch-A-Sketch and wrote:

On May 25, 6:33 pm, "Roger Shoaf" <sh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"heav" <p...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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If nuclear power is such a great idea, why won't the private insurance
companies insure it? Without government guarantees, all nuclear
plants would have to shut down today because no private insurance is
available.

Guess they would have to shut down France also.



The best idea here in California for electric cars is to mount solar
panels on your roof to capture sunlight and convert it to electricity
to charge the batteries in the car.

Ok explain the economics to me here. How much would it cost for the
panels?
and how much would it cost for the equipment to charge the batteries? If
I work during the day it would also seem to me that my car would be at
work, so I guess I would need two sets of batteries and swap them out
either when I get home from work or in the morning before I go to work.



On an industrial scale and a central power generation model, large
solar farms can be built out in the desert and used to separate
hydrogen and oxygen to fill fuel cells which can be transported to
fueling stations for hydrogen powered cars.

Really? How many acres of solar panels would it take to make enough
hydrogen to run a semi accross country (3,000) miles?
Trust me, the desert is huge. There are environmental preservation
factors that have to be considered there as well, but I read recently
that 19% of the vacant desert area of Arizona receives enough sunlight
to provide all the energy needs of the current U.S. economy.

I was reading in popular science about the rebirth of the mirror generators.
Using sunlight direct to DC is inefficient and expensive, while sunlight to
heat a steam (or oil) turbine is very cheap. We have one in southern
california, and apparently are going to get several more soon.

Still, having a solar array on my roof wouldn't be bad either. I've been
looking at it for some time.

Either that or somehow take extra - erm - methane after the pizza parties
and converting that a-la Mad Max.

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