Kirk had some thoughts when touring the Delta IV factory in Alabama.
Archive for the ‘Energy’ Category
Factory Built Powerplants
Posted in Climate, Energy, Motivation, Thorium, tagged Alabama, Decatur, Delta, nuclear, Thorium, ULA on Monday 2009.11.02 | Leave a Comment »
Economics and the Price of Nature
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, Journalism, Models, Nature, Science, idiocracy, tagged climate change, Cost, Costanza, Economics, Nature, Sagoff, Valuation on Thursday 2009.09.10 | Leave a Comment »
Assume a glacier that provides summer water for a billion people. What is its value, if it is destroyed by global warming? Since it currently provides services for free, it could be calculated as zero, according to some. Hence, a hypothetical economic activity by those people that gave them one dollar in total while destroying the glacier [...]
Thorium Energy Alliance
Posted in Climate, Energy, Global, Motivation, Thorium, industry, tagged lftr, Thorium, Thorium Energy Alliance on Friday 2009.08.21 | 1 Comment »
A quick way to get up to speed on Thorium and LFTR, aimed at lay people.
I seriously doubt their cost and schedule stuff. One needs to do material science tests with this, so it’s going to take longer.
But otherwise. It is the industrial solution for the world. It is perhaps not [...]
Save the U-233!
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, Thorium, idiocracy, industry on Sunday 2009.08.09 | Leave a Comment »
Posting about it again. The Energy From Thorium forum has more on what’s going on. Some bogus weapons reasons are presented to the press for why it will be downblended. It could be the startup fuel of new LFTRs instead.
Quoting DV82XL:
This is the equivalent to the move to have streetcar tracks ripped up in so [...]
Mathematically Wrong
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, Global, Motivation, idiocracy, industry, tagged Carter, co2, De Freitas, McLean, Statistics, Tamino, Trends on Friday 2009.08.07 | Leave a Comment »
Tamino examines a certain paper:
It’s certainly not true that their analysis shows “natural climate forcing associated with ENSO is a major contributor to variability and perhaps recent trends in global temperature.” It shows no such thing; their analysis removes all the effect of trends.
A thing to remember when you encounter McLean, de Freitas and Carter, [...]
Kirk Sorensen’s LFTR Talk at Google
Posted in Climate, Energy, Global, Motivation, Science, Thorium, industry, tagged Energy, google, lftr, nuclear, sorensen, Thorium on Saturday 2009.08.01 | Leave a Comment »
Here.
Coal is Bad
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, idiocracy, tagged coal, nuclear, TVA on Wednesday 2009.06.24 | Leave a Comment »
And there could have been much less of its use – but the alternatives of the past lay in half finished ruins. Kirk Sorensen explores them and their history concisely.
Grand total: 85,000 tons of coal each day that TVA wouldn’t be burning.
Adventures Inside the Atom
Posted in Energy, Science on Sunday 2009.06.07 | Leave a Comment »
Adventures Inside the Atom, a great way to learn how the nuclear reactions work – for both adults and kids. Click on the picture to go to the site.
Serious Solutions, No Feelgood
Posted in Architecture, Climate, Energy, Global, idiocracy, industry, tagged Climate, co2, Finland, nuclear, Pekkarinen, wind power on Tuesday 2009.04.07 | 1 Comment »
Finland is enacting laws that lead to building some more wind power. Like some professionals in the Finnish wind power association, Suomen tuulivoimayhdistys, have told me, perhaps the most important thing about wind power is that you have to be smart about what and where you build.
The wastelands of dead windmills in the California deserts [...]
Neat Nation’s Realtime Electricity Monitor
Posted in Energy, Thorium, industry, tagged electricity, Finland, nuclear on Monday 2009.03.30 | Leave a Comment »
At Fingrid. EDIT: same in English.
Usage, Imports and Exports of Electricity in Finland at one moment in time
