Flat mirrors, water boilers and steam turbine manufacturing have already evolved, like the wheel
On Tuesday, February 25, 2014, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > a.ashfield > <[email protected]<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > > wrote: > > That is false logic. You might as well claim Tokamaks are the answer, >> and we should do the research here, no matter what the cost, or be left >> behind. The problem is of course that if the system is fundamentally >> uneconomic no amount of research is going to fix it. >> > > It is not clear whether solar thermal is fundamentally uneconomical, or > whether it has not been funded enough to lower the cost. The price per > kilowatt hour is close enough to PV or wind that it may be competitive. > Also, that depends on the market and the geographic location. > > The Tokomak is not competitive. That seems pretty clear. See: > > http://lenr-canr.org/RossiData/KrakowskiARIES.pdf > > For a long time, people said that wind and PV would never become > competitive. Some conservatives still say that. They do not take into > account the hidden social and economic costs of coal, such as 20,000 dead > people a year. They do not take into account the cost of uranium fission > reactor accident. You could not take into account this cost before now, > because there were not many major accidents with Western European and U.S. > reactors. The Fukushima accident has displaced 90,000 people and > contaminated somewhere between 4% and 8% of the land in Japan. That is a > very high price to pay for electricity. > > - Jed > >
