gregory Meyerson on Wed 21, October 2009 @ 17:42

gregory Meyerson — 2009-10-21 17:42:50

david:

could you clarify point three below for me? Your comment comes from the bravenewclimate blog.

I too am a Marxist who thinks the energy/ecology problem cannot be solved without gen three/four nuclear; I also share your view of greenpeace and zionism. unfortunately, it's an accurate parallel, though before I started investigating nuclear power seriously, I would have thought such a parallel itself insane.

here's your comment. Please email to get in touch at gmeyerson@triad.rr.com

The problem here comes in several areas:

1. The cost of Molten Hot Storage (MHS) is large, almost doubling the cost of the CSP plant.

2. CSP needs prodigious amounts of water for cooling the steam turbine. Air cooling can be used but youtake a big efficiency hit doing so.

3. Storage with MHS means you have to deduct the number of storage hours from the capacity of the CSP plant. Major overbuilding will be necessary. A “300 MW” CSP plant means, with, say, an extra 12 hours storage, an on demand capacity now of 150 MWs. This means if you want 300 MWs you have to over build by 100% doubling the costs.

You see where this is going?

Permanent Revolution

gregory Meyerson on Wed 21, October 2009 @ 17:42