This is a 110 MW concentrating solar power (CSP) project in Nevada, with a
central tower, on 1,600 acres of land. The tower approach is more efficient
and cheaper than the troughs that were common 20 years ago. They recently
finished erecting the tower. See:
FYI:
Electrons moving in certain solids can behave as if they are a thousand
times more massive than free electrons.
Popular article here:
Got mass? Scientists observe electrons become both heavy and speedy
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-mass-scientists-electrons-heavy-speedy.html
I meant to say: Solar availability and peak power are much better than WIND
in the southwest because the peak coincides with the highest demand . . .
In some parts of Europe, you get a lot of wind at night, when you least
need electricity.
You cannot store wind, coal or nuclear energy, except a
On 2012-06-13 23:00, Akira Shirakawa wrote:
Hello Group,
I asked Roy Virgilio to provide some clarifications on certain passages
of his previous forum post, managing to obtain some more information. I
will translate his new message below (thanks again Google Translate):
Thanks for the update.
- Jed
It looks like they are hitting a dead end like Black Light...
2012/6/14 Akira Shirakawa shirakawa.ak...@gmail.com
On 2012-06-13 23:00, Akira Shirakawa wrote:
Hello Group,
I asked Roy Virgilio to provide some clarifications on certain passages of
his previous forum post, managing to obtain
Jed,
Your problem is that you believe everything you read off those green energy
blogs/flyers and believe it is true.
The original Solar One and Solar Two Power Towers were moth-balled 20 years
ago. Solar one used steam/water, Solar Two used molten salt.
$1.6B/$2.2 Billion of government
Chemical Engineer cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
Your problem is that you believe everything you read off those green
energy blogs/flyers and believe it is true.
The original Solar One and Solar Two Power Towers were moth-balled 20
years ago.
Yes. Things often go wrong with cutting edge
I was involved in a CSP project a few years back, and as much as I enjoyed
the tech side of it I have to agree with you. Large scale CSP is probably
cheaper than large scale PV, but after you factor in maintenance, fighting
BANANAs ( Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) and
You are right, the government should have given them 5 times as much money
to prove that something 5 times more expensive than current generating
technologies would cost 5 times as much to the consumer/taxpayer.
The market for CSP(none) drove them out of business not the government.
LENR has the
Chemical Engineer cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
You are right, the government should have given them 5 times as much money
to prove that something 5 times more expensive . . .
Luz did not use much government money, and their 300 MW plant has been
operating continuously at a profit since the 1980s,
Jed,
Is 10 billion enough to prove it is not cost effective?
20 billion? 50?
I could have launched those tortoises into earth orbit for $56M in taxpayer
money spent at Ivanpah relocaiting them
I am not much for conspiracy theories although they are fun to read
On Thursday, June 14, 2012, Jed
Also,
CSP is not radically new it has been around for 30 years awaiting
government money, only the names have changed.
If SEGS was so profitable why did Luz go bankrupt?
On Thursday, June 14, 2012, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Chemical Engineer cheme...@gmail.com javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
Entanglement is hard to understand.
Here is my take on what this article says.
When subatomic particles become entangled, they essentially share the same
matter wave form. It is like a group of people who decide to poll their
money in a bank in a joint account where any of these people can
From: Robert Lynn
Assuming no LENR there is no chance of CSP being competitive
with natural gas in the next few decades.
Your bring up an interesting point, although it is not clear how you
intended it.
In fact, there could be synergy between
From the LENR/gamma experiments of Piantelli, it seems to me that the way
gamma radiation is thermalized is provisional; sometimes gamma is
thermalized and other times it is not.
Rossi also had occasional gamma emission problems(at startup and shutdown)
before he cured this condition.
If
Chemical Engineer cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
CSP is not radically new it has been around for 30 years awaiting
government money, only the names have changed.
If SEGS was so profitable why did Luz go bankrupt?
I told you: it was a squeeze play. The power company and coal companies
conspired
I wrote:
[California's] Their laissez faire approach ended spectacularly with
the Enron burn baby burn episodes, with billions of dollars vanishing
into thin air.
By the way, I would not say that was the fault of capitalism. What Enron
and the legislators in California was not capitalism!
First, it's not off topic.
Second, the Chinese will probably beat us to the draw.
T
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120613145418.htm
snip In a study to appear in the June 14 issue of the journal Nature, the
Princeton-led team, which included scientists from Los Alamos National
Laboratory (LANL) and the University of California-Irvine, used direct imaging
of
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:56 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.netwrote:
“Electrons moving in certain solids can behave as if they are a thousand
times more massive than free electrons…”
In the matter of Widom and Larsen, some fun numbers:
mass proton: 938 MeV
mass electron: 511 MeV
Sorry -- mis-transcription. That's 511 KeV for the electron.
Eric
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:56 AM, MarkI-ZeroPoint
zeropo...@charter.netwrote:
“Electrons moving in certain solids can behave as if they are a
Jed,
I am an engineer and I like new technology as do many. The entire CSP
market in California has been created from State Legislation, Federal
grants, loans and subsidies. The market will dry up when those options go
away again with changing adminstrations just as it did 25+ years ago. It
is
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Eric Walker eric.wal...@gmail.com wrote:
From the Wikipedia article on muon-catalyzed fusion: If a muon replaces
one of the electrons in a hydrogen molecule, the nuclei are consequently
drawn 207 times closer together than in a normal molecule. Maybe you
don't
Chemical Engineer cheme...@gmail.com wrote:
I am an engineer and I like new technology as do many.
Of course! But if you had to choose between a tried and true old method
that works as well as a new one, I'll bet you would go with the old one. It
is a safer choice. It is often a wistful
It seems to me that the heavy or ---identically--- the speedy electrons
cannot be confined to orbit an atom; they need the wide open spaces of the
open lattice to show off their speed.
Only low energy electrons can orbit atoms. The referenced articles do not
talk about neutrons, just electrons.
This is an interesting effect. I believe the full text (daunting reading)
preprint is available at --
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1206/1206.3145.pdf
I am no expert on this, but my impression is that the heavy
quasi-particles described only exist at relatively low energies, and
probably
“Electrons moving in certain solids can behave as if they are a thousand
times more massive than free electrons…”
Caution…Mass is condensed matter physics is different from mass as it
appears in other physics.
Effective mass of electron
When an electron is moving inside a solid material,
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