but we are blind.
by Edano 8/10/2011 5:57:44 PM
Doing something different or new (like putting solar panels on your house) is practically an act of rebellion. At least in the US
by lillymunster 8/10/2011 6:00:13 PM
@joniver I see it very slowly changing. A small company that puts solar panels on tractor-trailer trailers to help power the refrigeration unit on them just opened last month. A new company installing solar and small wind on houses opened up recently. There has been a very resistant and vocal opposition to renewable energy around here. It is completely political, far right political factions are totally against renewables, conservation or anything other than massive wasting of fossil fuels and nuclear power.
So people will try to make headway and someone heavily against it will put up a big fight about it. So seeing companies pop up is a good sign the general population is accepting the idea.
by lillymunster 8/10/2011 6:10:15 PM
Oh check this out. An actual study on the uptake of radioactive iodine into cows milk.
www.cancer.govby lillymunster 8/10/2011 6:12:10 PM
Interesting tidbit of all this Hanford research. Radiation study is almost exclusively radioactive iodine. Nothing on cesium at all.
by lillymunster 8/10/2011 6:16:32 PM
@lillymunster i see the US in big future economic problems if their attitude toward renewables persists. people will be suprised to see that nuke power is very expensive in reality.
by Edano 8/10/2011 6:16:50 PM
@joniver my biggest roadblock right now has been cash. I don't want to finance doing the work but feel more pressure to get something in place before winter with the way things have been going politically and consumer prices for everything going up.
by lillymunster 8/10/2011 6:18:00 PM
@RonD however, in germany it works.
by Edano 8/10/2011 6:19:32 PM
it is clear that we need different grids for decentral DC power generation. but let's not forget how hopelessly inefficient and morbid our today's grids are.
by Edano 8/10/2011 6:25:17 PM
the problem is the grids belong to the nuke dinos. so who wants to modernize them then ???
by Edano 8/10/2011 6:29:13 PM
the change will not take place without political interventions to back it up.
by Edano 8/10/2011 6:30:41 PM
@joniver batteries are the biggest expense, of course added because we can't tie to the grid. At least they act as a back up since our power is unreliable. The new battery systems being developed in Japan are great but the price is too high for the average person to afford. If they can get them down into the $1000 range I think more people will look at buying them. I saw one retailing for $15 thousand. Makes a pile of old deep cell batteries look cheap. :-)
by lillymunster 8/10/2011 6:30:48 PM
@Edano the epic failure of the US just trying to raise the debt ceiling is proof of our current capability to do anything. I can hold out hope that someone will grow a spine and declare we need to make some national changes over here.
by lillymunster 8/10/2011 6:32:04 PM
@joniver you are correct on both counts. Right now we seem to have a case of paralysis while the car careens of a cliff.
by lillymunster 8/10/2011 6:42:35 PM
right now we are living with big gas and gasoline tanks and we got used to them.
by Edano 8/10/2011 6:47:40 PM
@RonD here many houses have huge diesel or gas (not gasoline) tanks for heating in the basements. they are quite safe, never heard of any explosion.
by Edano 8/10/2011 6:58:16 PM
of course, a leaking hydrogen tank is more delicate ....
by Edano 8/10/2011 7:00:41 PM
you can only admire nature. how the body produces and stores the energy, is simply brilliant and so effective.
by Edano 8/10/2011 7:02:42 PM
@RonD : it had a really thin coating and a very huge tank. nevertheless it worked quite well. the hindenburg was just one of many.
by Edano 8/10/2011 7:05:50 PM
Part of the problem with the Hindenburg was the aluminum powder paint they used. It was combustible
by lillymunster 8/10/2011 7:08:20 PM
the body stores the energy that is produced by burning the food in tiny molecules. it adds a phosphoric atom to an ADP (adenosinediphosphate) molecule and it becomes ATP (adenosinetriphosphate). ATP is catalytically and exothermically cracked again to ADP in the muscles or anywhere it is needed. i wonder why we cannot get something similar to work.
by Edano 8/10/2011 7:13:16 PM
but humans tend to think they are more intelligent than nature ;)
by Edano 8/10/2011 7:24:42 PM
@Edano my daughter has IDDM so this fascinates me
by elainekirk 8/10/2011 7:26:38 PM
@lillymunster : today we all know it was sabotage by the ancestor company of exxon (forgot the name).
by Edano 8/10/2011 7:27:25 PM
@elainekirk i'm sorry for that :(
by Edano 8/10/2011 7:29:29 PM
$44 million to keep Ft. Calhoun from flooding
www.omaha.comby lillymunster 8/10/2011 7:32:34 PM
@lillymunster nuke is just so cheap
by elainekirk 8/10/2011 7:33:12 PM
@Edano ???
by lillymunster 8/10/2011 7:33:21 PM
Another random factoid from Hanford research. DuPont corp was running the place during some of the worst releases and during bomb making for WWII.
by lillymunster 8/10/2011 7:34:20 PM
@Edano We are blinded.by joniver 8/10/2011 6:01:11 PM
@joniver In the long run we need to find other non-fossil fuel options for power and things like solar/geothermal are part of the solution. There are some power grid stability considerations for voltage and grid frequency (50 or 60 Hz) that are easier to do with a smaller number of big power sources. Its a lot harder to sync 100,000s of solar power systems when they feed into the grid. In the US they are getting ready to conduct some experiments on the power grid, www.msnbc.msn.comby RonD 8/10/2011 6:16:56 PM
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