Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
3.6. Nuclear? http://www.ck12.org Figure 24.10:Sizewell occupies less than 1km^2. The blue grid’s spacing is 1 km. © Crown copyr ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 3. Making A Difference disasters on oil rigs; helicopters lost at sea; pipeline fires; refinery expl ...
3.6. Nuclear? http://www.ck12.org Two widely-cited defects of nuclear power are construction costs, and waste. Let’s examine som ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 3. Making A Difference Figure 24.13:British nuclear waste, per person, per year, has a volume just a ...
3.6. Nuclear? http://www.ck12.org I heard that nuclear power can’t be built at a sufficient rate to make a useful contribution. ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 3. Making A Difference function of time, showing only the power stations still operational in 2007. ...
3.6. Nuclear? http://www.ck12.org Figure 24.16:Lithium-based fusion, if used fairly and “sustainably,” could match our current l ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 3. Making A Difference This diagram’s scale is shrunk ten-fold in each dimension so as to fit fusion ...
3.6. Nuclear? http://www.ck12.org been only one cycle of exploration-discovery-production, driven in large part by late 1970s pr ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 3. Making A Difference accident at Chernobyl first killed 62 who died directly from exposure, and 15 ...
3.7. Living on other countries’ renewables? http://www.ck12.org 3.7 Living on other countries’ renewables? Whether the Mediterra ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 3. Making A Difference TABLE3.7:(continued) Region Population Area(km^2 ) Density (persons perkm^2 ) ...
3.7. Living on other countries’ renewables? http://www.ck12.org Figure 25.4: Andasol – a “100MW” solar power station under const ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 3. Making A Difference the power to cloudier northern parts. HVDC technology has been in use since 1 ...
3.7. Living on other countries’ renewables? http://www.ck12.org Figure 25.7:Laying a high-voltage DC link between Finland and Es ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 3. Making A Difference Figure 25.8:Each circular blob represents an area of 1500km^2 , which, if one ...
3.7. Living on other countries’ renewables? http://www.ck12.org Figure 25.9:A 25 kW (peak) concentrator photovoltaic collector p ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 3. Making A Difference the chimney, the bigger the power density of a solar chimney becomes. The eng ...
3.7. Living on other countries’ renewables? http://www.ck12.org Figure 25.11:More geothermal power in Iceland. Photo by Rosie Wa ...
http://www.ck12.org Chapter 3. Making A Difference Trieb and Knies (2004), who are strong proponents of concentrating solar powe ...
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