Ferrari Mailing List: Re: New Physics is not going to save us

Ummmmmm...........YEAH!!! WHAT HE SAID!!!!!...............

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From: <georgedodson [at] comcast.net>

To: "Daniel" <edwf430 [at] att.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 6:21 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] New Physics is not going to save us

All,

Sorry, I am a day or two behind in my reading. If anyone on the list is 

waiting for some "new physics" to come along and provide a new energy 

source, they need to take a cold shower. Physics research is at least 50 

to 100 years ahead of applicable technology.   Quarks and lattice quantum 

chromodynamics are not going to hellp. The most advanced energy sources 

now  and on the horizon are the breeder reactor and plasma fusion. both 

from the 1950's. If you think that wind and solar are going to save you, 

then you need to wake up and look a the power density numbers. Solar is ~ 

1kw/meter square at noon at the equator. Multiply that tines ~3% 

efficiency and you cover Rhode Island with solar cells to equal one nuke. 

A wind tower has about as much power as an inline six cylinder. Greenpeace 

will sue you if you try to put one on a scenic mountain and Ted Kennedy 

will oppose you putting one up where he likes to sail his $1-2M  racing 

yachts. So, what are you going to do? Plasma fusion is still 30 years away 

from an operable power reactor, even with ITER, and where is this mountain 

of Tritium that you are planng to burn? the only answer is a Li blanket 

around a reactor, so why nor run reactors.  Power reactors have Avogadro's 

number of atoms in less than a thimble and produce 200 MeV/fission. Plasma 

fusion runs in what most people would see as a pretty good vacuum and D-T 

produces only ~20 Mev/fusion. It has the energy density of, you guessed 

it, an inline 6 cylinder. Then there is the small problem of containing 

the Sun 3 meters from something that you can fabricate in the lab. The 

French are 80% nuclear, they have a breeder program and reprocess all the 

nuchear fuel rods in Europe. There isn't even enough Uranium on the planet 

for the electricity that we need. We need breeder reactors and we need 

them now.

Regards,

George
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Re: New Physics is not going to save us	<– Date –> <– Thread –>
From: Dan Warlick (edwf430att.net)
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 07:33:02 -0700 (PDT)