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>--- In energyresources@yahoogroups.com, "scottsworth" ><scottsworth@...> wrote:
>
> Ah well, thanks for calling me an idiot.

You're quite welcome. I am a firm believer in calling them as I see them. :)

>I do so enjoy being called names. Though I am not an eco-whacky >idiot. I am
actually in favor of developing nuclear energy.
>

You have a strange way of expressing it, there, sport.


>The reason I came to find this particular group many years ago was >due to
research I was doing on nuclear energy about 10 years ago, >particularly with
supply. I found that the disinformation plastered >out there on fissionable
material then was almost as bad as it is >now.

Ten years ago.... Wasn't Megatons to Megawatts just starting to distort the U
supply/demand market about then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program

Why look! Yes it was.

I suggest gently that your conclusions may be tainted, and perhaps you should
look again.

>
>Though now there is an even larger overstatement regarding >energy >resource
supply of pretty much everything. Seemingly to keep genious >supreme beings like
yourself happy and diluded about the bright >future for humanity. Go ahead,
please believe that there is an >endless supply of everything out there... and
when reserves do not >come out as stated, good luck to you and your belief on
this insane >system for resource overestimating that we have.
>

OH! You're not an ecowacky, you're a DOOMER. LOL! I should have known.

I will extend the same to you as I do to all DieOff fans:

You first.


> SNIP <

No use continuing to talk to you, Doomers are even more dead-set (get it?!) in
their religion than ecowackies. Have fun being depressed! :D






Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:27 pm

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Anyone help me here?.... Take 250megawatts of electricity, beam it 22,000 miles to a receiving site. What is the amount of electricity reaching the receiving...
Eric Pfeiffer
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Nov 15, 2009
10:47 pm

The amount of electricity reaching the target is zero. You cannot beam electricity. You need to convert the electricity into some sort of "beaming" energy....
scottsworth
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Nov 16, 2009
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Depends on the frequency and on the design of the transmitting antenna. If you're talking about a solar power satellite (which that "22,000 miles" stongly...
Roger Arnold
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Nov 16, 2009
1:27 am

... And the conversion at each end, electricity to some radiation and the radiation back to electricity. I have a sneaking feeling, Eric, that we are not...
Frank Holland
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Nov 16, 2009
5:25 pm

Er, why not ask these questions? The engineers that design such things take all this into account, after all. :) Indeed, Roger just ran a set of numbers...
mauk_mcamuk
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Nov 17, 2009
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I think that 57% is being very optimistic. Losses are everywhere. You still have to go from the receiving power station to the consumer as well. You also have...
scottsworth
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Nov 20, 2009
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Huh. ... Sure they are. But for an apples-to-apples comparison, 57 percent orbital solar delivered at the busbar compares directly to 30-40 percent coal...
mauk_mcamuk
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Nov 21, 2009
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... Well, there may be some truth that nuclear energy is impossible, but for other reasons than the anti-nuke propoganda. I found die-off and got into this...
scottsworth
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Nov 23, 2009
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... I got more than 400 working reactors world wide that say you're incorrect, sir. :) ... It does? Why? I'm honestly curious, here. ...
mauk_mcamuk
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Nov 23, 2009
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Ah well, thanks for calling me an idiot. I do so enjoy being called names. Though I am not an eco-whacky idiot. I am actually in favor of developing nuclear...
scottsworth
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Nov 24, 2009
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... You're quite welcome. I am a firm believer in calling them as I see them. :) ... You have a strange way of expressing it, there, sport. ... Ten years...
mauk_mcamuk
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Nov 24, 2009
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... Oh I'm terribly sorry, but I am not the suicidal type, see?. I will see your sorry ass pushing up daisies before I do. Get over yourself there, troll. I am...
scottsworth
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Nov 25, 2009
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Oh, this one has some life in him. :) See responses inline below. ... Of course not. You, like most Doomers, want OTHER people to die. Well sorry bunky, but...
mauk_mcamuk
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Nov 27, 2009
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... I'll join you if I may. I too have researched the availability of uranium, and I agree with you, and with people like Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen at...
Frank Holland
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Nov 24, 2009
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Yah, we call them trolls here. They like to debate things just to see themselves in print, or cause controversy. Making up for lack of self esteem or...
scottsworth
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Nov 25, 2009
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One of the interesting features of some of the newer SSP designs is that the power beams essentially replace the long distance power grid. That eliminates...
Roger Arnold
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Nov 21, 2009
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OK you partially answered my question... but millions?? is it simple magnetron technology?? H...
hugh spencer
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Nov 21, 2009
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... From: energyresources@yahoogroups.com [mailto:energyresources@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Roger Arnold Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 1:57 PM To:...
Lawrence B. Crowell
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Spot beam satellite power? Interesting. We could all have satellite downlink collectors at today's power substations. Amusing. Satellites would still would be...
scottsworth
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Nov 23, 2009
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This is appears in the 11/20 issue of Science. The AAAS is finally starting to take notice. Lawrence B. Crowell OIL RESOURCES: Splitting the Difference...
Lawrence B. Crowell
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ERoEI is a measure of the energy effectiveness of a system in supplying energy for driving many of the operations of civilization. It does not account for the...
Denis Frith
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... Well Tom said that in a Denis mail. Agreed, Tom, "or at least should"! But is seldom does, nobody that I know of includes all the others you quote, they go...
Frank Holland
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