Re: What other types of jobs can a machinist do other than making junk.


"D Murphy" <spamto154@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The economics of alternate energy vehicles needs to change in order to
get rid of dependence on foreign oil.

Where you see an obstacle I see opportunity Dan.

OK. California consumes around 8.5 quadrillion Btu's of energy per year.
Second highest in the nation, BTW. The total output of every solar energy
device that exists today in the whole country is 0.063 quadrillion Btu's.

Assuming you could get the same efficiency, which you can't, California
would need 137 times the number of solar devices in existance in the US
today.

I'm not saying solar isn't a good idea, but it is so far away from being
a panacea it's laughable. And that's just sunny warm California where
batteries work year round and heating and cooling needs are quite low.

As a nation we are using well over 27 quadrillion Btu's just on
transportation. Well over 100 quads in total energy consumption.

Do a little math, convert 100 quadrillion Btu's to Kw, then figure out
how many photovoltaic cells you need, and how many billions of tons of
batteries.

The other inescapable issue is that wind and solar can't satisfy base
load generation demands. IOW, you can't count on the sun to shine nor the
wind to blow when you need it to. So you still need to be able to meet
base load demand 24/7/365.

Nulear is a much better choice.

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Dan

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Dan,
We have so many Chicken or Egg problems, but I see some hope. I thought
hybrid cars were a really stupid idea, until I realized they were Chicken
AND Egg!

We don't have good batteries. Why, because they isn't a big enough market
for good batteries that would encourage big companies to pour billions and
billions of dollars into the research needed to develop them, and even more
in huge factories to make them cheap.

Now we are getting hybrids, using the already existing infrastructure for
fuel and making modest gains in efficiency. They use batteries, hundreds of
thousands of batteries at this moment. Millions of batteries in a few more
years. Slowly but surely a damn big market for better battery is emerging.
One big enough to get the GEs of the world interested. Already there are
people working on the Plug-In Hybrid. For your daily commute you plug it in
every night, and never use gas. When you need to make that vacation trip
the gas or diesel generator on board gives you the range you need.

Solar currently has the same problem. There really isn't enough demand for
solar at the current prices for anyone to make money building a huge factory
pumping them out cheap. We need one of two things, something like the
hybrid car, or someone like the US government placing an order for 100
Billion dollars worth of solar panels each year for the next ten years. Buy
as many as you can from the lowest bidders each year. Give them away to the
needy, power every US government building in the whole world, sell them
below cost to the power companies. How much solar power can we buy for a
Trillion dollars over ten years? At that point enough money is being made
that the market will continue on by itself.

Gary H. Lucas


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