Comments on: Wind power not enough to affect global climate

By: Guillermo

Guillermo — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:28:20 +0000

The power figures don’t agree with the related article: http://www.kurzweilai.net/wind-could-meet-many-times-the-worlds-total-power-demand-by-2030-stanford-reseachers-say?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b7284ffb8b-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email

By: Peter the printer

Peter the printer — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:49:11 +0000

By absorbing energy from the sun solar collectors of whatever type are reducing warming. Isn’t that what’s needed? Nuclear is limited to how much fuel is left just like all other fossil sources of energy. I remain convinced that nuclear is far too dangerous to mess with and encourages ‘we are godlike’ thinking which makes it even more dangerous.

By: egore

egore — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:30:00 +0000

What about the possibility of Cold Fusion? There seems to be a lot of people working on it, but not much to report.

By: mjblake

mjblake — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:06:38 +0000

See the book ‘Global Weirdness’ to understand why nuclear is not the way to go. Too much risk without enough benefit. Can’t have too much uranium floating around. It could fall into the wrong hands, and there also aren’t any completely reliable ways to dispose of used uranium.

By: Tom Lettington

Tom Lettington — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:01:17 +0000

Have there been companion studies to determine the climate impact of massive deployment of solar collectors? Surely this would have some impact because if would alter the current state of earth’s reflectivity/absorption of solar energy. I remain convinced that nuclear power (4th and subsequent generations) are the most viable solution at hand that will satisfy base load demand.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:33:41 +0000

This is still another case of scientists in one field not paying attention to scientists in another field. We’ve seen papers excerpted at this newsletter about the soon coming of flexible carbon solar cells that will be much cheaper and more efficient than the silicon cells of today. We don’t need wind turbines for all 18 terawatts of global usage. We just need wind turbines enough for when “the sun don’t shine.”