When a wind mill or a solar facility goes down it simply has to be repaired or replaced. What is everyone thinking?
No waste issues, no long term structural problems and land that can be reclaimed over a short period of time if there are other and better forms of energy than those that damage the troposphere.
I am waiting and hoping for the day the Sahara Desert is harnessed to provide global energy. Or at the very least Europe. Hot Oil Solar Heaters make great steam power.
It is called a Solar Trough. (click here) The same can be done in the deserts of the USA. The temperatures of the oil rise to 800 Fahrenheit or higher with absolutely no danger to employees. The sun does all the work and the folks that work at the facility simply monitor the panels and oil lines. The oil runs into boilers to make steam and the steam turns turbines no different than any other energy facility in the country.
Is to too much to ask to actually have an energy infrastructure that doesn't burden the society it is suppose to serve? The petroleum industry, the nuclear energy industry and the coal industry all create long term structural problems for taxpayers in the USA. Why are we doing this?
The crippled Fukushima plant has suffered water leaks and power cuts in recent months
5 August 2013
Japan's nuclear watchdog (click here) has said the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is facing a new "emergency" caused by a build-up of radioactive groundwater.
A barrier built to contain the water has already been breached, the Nuclear Regulatory Authority warned.
This means the amount of contaminated water seeping into the Pacific Ocean could accelerate rapidly, it said.
There has been spate of water leaks and power failures at the plant, devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Its operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), has been criticised heavily for its lack of transparency over the leaks....
No waste issues, no long term structural problems and land that can be reclaimed over a short period of time if there are other and better forms of energy than those that damage the troposphere.
I am waiting and hoping for the day the Sahara Desert is harnessed to provide global energy. Or at the very least Europe. Hot Oil Solar Heaters make great steam power.
It is called a Solar Trough. (click here) The same can be done in the deserts of the USA. The temperatures of the oil rise to 800 Fahrenheit or higher with absolutely no danger to employees. The sun does all the work and the folks that work at the facility simply monitor the panels and oil lines. The oil runs into boilers to make steam and the steam turns turbines no different than any other energy facility in the country.
Is to too much to ask to actually have an energy infrastructure that doesn't burden the society it is suppose to serve? The petroleum industry, the nuclear energy industry and the coal industry all create long term structural problems for taxpayers in the USA. Why are we doing this?
The crippled Fukushima plant has suffered water leaks and power cuts in recent months5 August 2013
Japan's nuclear watchdog (click here) has said the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is facing a new "emergency" caused by a build-up of radioactive groundwater.
A barrier built to contain the water has already been breached, the Nuclear Regulatory Authority warned.
This means the amount of contaminated water seeping into the Pacific Ocean could accelerate rapidly, it said.
There has been spate of water leaks and power failures at the plant, devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Its operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), has been criticised heavily for its lack of transparency over the leaks....
