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Albert Rogers signed Create Your Own Individual Action to Shift to a Low Carbon Future 2015-08-21 14:12:01 -0400
Okay, I walk to get most of my groceries, almost a mile away.
Decades ago, I commuted to work by bicycle, 14 miles away, for 14 years until a car ran a red light and hit my from wheel. I switched to Metro, which took longer.
I am committed to persuading my fellow liberals and environmentalists that “zero fossil carbon” is essential, and that trees are better than lawns or even meadows. I am learning to scythe.
I have found that a reactor design from http://transatomicpower.com , can CONSUME what others erroneously call “nuclear waste”, and can run on uranium enriched to half the level of presently deployed reactors, meltdown proof, and with a waste production for a gigawatt year of dependable energy, of less than a ton of waste. The waste itself is a thousand times shorter lived than Pu-239.
It is the brainchild of a group from MIT.
The reactor is rated at 520 MWe, small enough for factory production and easier to transport than one single blade of a 5 MW wind turbine. This means that 2,000 of these, over 1,000 GWe of nameplate capacity, could replace ALL of the USA’s present electric generators, providing with their off-peak power enough energy to charge a huge number of electric vehicle batteries, or electricity to supply a hydrogen economy.
To supply the USA’s annual energy consumption of about 450 gigawatt_years would require, at the optimistic wind estimate of a 25% production factor, 1800 GW of wind capacity, which is 360,000 of the gigantic 5 MW wind “turbines”. But most of the wind energy would have to be stored, to be supplied when actually needed.
I am committed, as a retired employee of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to combine the knowledge I learned there with everything the Internet web can supply me, to identify and make known to others the possibility and necessity of a worldwide ZERO fossil carbon footprint.
I have analysed the NRDC’s compilation of emissions reports and find that Dominion Power company,, of which I am a customer, has a carbon dioxide footprint far better than most US electric generating companies, by virtue of the fact that 48% of their energy comes from nuclear. I am doing what I can, including this, to make such knowledge better known, and to banish the idea that wind turbines can do any good whatever.
California was a pioneer, in my boyhood, of nuclear physics research. Not the names Americium, Californium, Berkelium and Lawrencium.
Decades ago, I commuted to work by bicycle, 14 miles away, for 14 years until a car ran a red light and hit my from wheel. I switched to Metro, which took longer.
I am committed to persuading my fellow liberals and environmentalists that “zero fossil carbon” is essential, and that trees are better than lawns or even meadows. I am learning to scythe.
I have found that a reactor design from http://transatomicpower.com , can CONSUME what others erroneously call “nuclear waste”, and can run on uranium enriched to half the level of presently deployed reactors, meltdown proof, and with a waste production for a gigawatt year of dependable energy, of less than a ton of waste. The waste itself is a thousand times shorter lived than Pu-239.
It is the brainchild of a group from MIT.
The reactor is rated at 520 MWe, small enough for factory production and easier to transport than one single blade of a 5 MW wind turbine. This means that 2,000 of these, over 1,000 GWe of nameplate capacity, could replace ALL of the USA’s present electric generators, providing with their off-peak power enough energy to charge a huge number of electric vehicle batteries, or electricity to supply a hydrogen economy.
To supply the USA’s annual energy consumption of about 450 gigawatt_years would require, at the optimistic wind estimate of a 25% production factor, 1800 GW of wind capacity, which is 360,000 of the gigantic 5 MW wind “turbines”. But most of the wind energy would have to be stored, to be supplied when actually needed.
I am committed, as a retired employee of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to combine the knowledge I learned there with everything the Internet web can supply me, to identify and make known to others the possibility and necessity of a worldwide ZERO fossil carbon footprint.
I have analysed the NRDC’s compilation of emissions reports and find that Dominion Power company,, of which I am a customer, has a carbon dioxide footprint far better than most US electric generating companies, by virtue of the fact that 48% of their energy comes from nuclear. I am doing what I can, including this, to make such knowledge better known, and to banish the idea that wind turbines can do any good whatever.
California was a pioneer, in my boyhood, of nuclear physics research. Not the names Americium, Californium, Berkelium and Lawrencium.
