You are the amateur, stick to cold fusion
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:54 PM, ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > Brightsource has done no plant in Spain, get your facts right. > > No, Ivanpah is their first plant to produce 1 watt of electricity > > Don't assume you know what you are talking about just because you are > talking > > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: > >> ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> First widespread power outage where you can't move the mirrors you melt >>> the tower. >>> >> >> Surely you realize that all power plants have emergency power supplies! >> The destruction of the emergency supplies is what caused the Fukushima >> disaster. It wasn't as if they did not have any way to operate the plant >> equipment in the event of an emergency. The Brightsource engineers have >> constructed many plants, in Spain and elsewhere. They know what they are >> dealing with. They have years of experience operating these plants. If what >> you describe is a problem I'm sure they have encountered it, and they know >> to defocus the mirrors in the event of a major power failure. >> >> Do not assume that you are smarter than people who built and operated >> billions of dollars worth of equipment over many years. Do not assume that >> you see things they have overlooked. That attitude irks me. Amateur critics >> often assume they understand potential problems with cold fusion >> experiments better than McKubre or Storms. >> >> - Jed >> >> >
