From: Glenn Morton (glenn.morton@btinternet.com)
Date: Thu Nov 28 2002 - 16:39:00 EST
My point, Walt, is that we still don't know what kind of contraption will be
required for a fusion plant. IF one assumes that it is the same cost as a
fission plant, I still can't do the analysis because I have no idea of the
energy output per plant. We don't know the life time of one of those plants,
we don't know how much gadgetry or superconducting magnets that might be
needed. There simply isn't any knowledge about non-existent plants and I am
not a prophet. I simply can't foresee that these things will cost the same
as fission plants.
glenn
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Walter Hicks [mailto:wallyshoes@mindspring.com]
>Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 7:34 AM
>To: Glenn Morton
>Cc: Dr. Blake Nelson; RDehaan237@aol.com; asa@calvin.edu
>Subject: Re: oil
>
>
>I hate to be a naysayer, but the cost of the fuel is not the driver in the
>construction of a nuke. Even if came for free from rainfall, the costs
>associated with building the nuke would be similar whether fusion
>of fission. It
>seems as though your argument against fission is just as valid
>against fusion.
>
>Walt
>
>Glenn Morton wrote:
>
>> Walter wrote:
>>
>> >I had meant to ask what would the difference be if Fusion
>> >rather than fission were used. I'd be surprised if a fair
>> >analysis showed that fusion might be economically feasible
>> >but fission was not.
>> >
>>
>> Fusion is the big hope. in 1% of the world's deuterium lies
>500,000 times
>> more energy than will be burned by all fossil fuels combined. We have to
>> solve the helium problem. The problem is, it doesn't work, we
>aren't doing
>> enough research into it and thus I have no numbers for how much
>such a plant
>> costs or how much energy it will produce to do an economic study.
>>
>> glenn
>>
>> see http://www.glenn.morton.btinternet.co.uk/dmd.htm
>> for lots of creation/evolution information
>> anthropology/geology/paleontology/theology\
>> personal stories of struggle
>
>--
>===================================
>Walt Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>
>
>In any consistent theory, there must
>exist true but not provable statements.
>(Godel's Theorem)
>
>You can only find the truth with logic
>If you have already found the truth
>without it. (G.K. Chesterton)
>===================================
>
>
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