On Saturday 09 March 2019 21:40:10 andy pugh wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 17:55, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Electricity could with the right push, be solar. > > I would rather it was fusion. > > it looks like we can get by at the current level with renewables. One > day a couple of years ago the UK was > 50% renewable. (low load sunny > and windy day) We have some failry big offshore wind farms: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Array > > But "current level" won't solve anything. With 10x the current output > we could solve problems. With 100x we could stop mining and reprocess > our land-fill sites into raw elements for re-use. > > I don't know why nobody is pushing for war-level funding for Fusion. > It can work, the sun proves that.
Unfortunately for us, the sun has its own way of balanceing things and it generally Just Works. Thank $Diety its not big enough to nova, but will end ts life in 5 billion years as a bettelgues? lookalike. Leave it to humans with no concept of common sense, but lots of don't rock the boat rules and you get TMI, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. And probably 100 more lessor 'accidents' we haven't been told about. The first thing the regulators will do is freeze the design down to the last screw in it, no matter if a far better way to do it is later found. My son, who works for a service company that does service work on electronics that fail in these power facilities on this side of the pond, he can't replace anything with a newer, better part, it has to be an official OEM part. No modern, thousands of times more dependable transistor carrying 10x the voltage and current ratings can be used. They wind up buying $5k worth of old transistors hoping to find one good one in the lot. Thats pure BS, the improved technology should be welcomed. But you can't tell them anything, because the people that write the rules only know this worked so they'll never ever allow something that hasn't passed the test of time measured in decades. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
