Coal & Nuclear = Going Off The Rails On A Crazy Train!!!

[MichaelLWagner]

Here Read:


+ The True Cost of Coal Revealed / L. Berliant:

http://www.sehn.org/tcccostofcoal.html

--"... adds $451 billion in annual costs to the simple buying price. Not included in that dollar amount are damage estimates for acid mine drainage, mercury pollution or ground water contamination... "


+ The Cost Of Coal On The Environment / ScienceDaily

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0504151722.htm

"'Coal is an extremely dirty source of power, and imposes huge costs on people’s health, the environment and the economy,'..."


+ A Comparison of the Monetized Impact of IQ Decrements from Mercury Emissions / US EPA

http://www.sehn.org/tccpdf/mercury cost estimates compared.pdf

"... American power plants impose an economic cost of $1.3 billion due to mercury emissions."


+ How Much Do Environmental Diseases and Disabilities Cost / Northwest Public Health:

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:MAQK1ATldW4J:www.nwpublichealth.org/docs/nph/f2005/web_ex_davies_f2005.pdf+forbes+economic+costs+of+e nvironmental+diseases+%26+disabilities&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgrQvlc6VfuroGuQvBjJ5Bz9ryncTxleqaUqXZn v-IwF5KM26VPtPNOkLCFkBZ3CDHmTpMWVk1eG2HBkL-YYgWA8NX-jRRE4fqj8CoMf2wb-_1SqsjNfk9cIvW_OXxGGAB1qsKM&sig=AFQjCNHxoO66Rct6fu9Va8_w6NftHzoqQQ

"... there is now strong or good scientific evidence that about 22 types of cancer and about 24 reproductive, birth, developmental, and neurobehavioral disorders are linked with exposure to environmental contaminants."


+ Preventing Disease Through Healthy Environments: Towards an Estimate of the Environmental Burden of Disease / World Health Organization:

http://www.sehn.org/tccpdf/environment disease burden WHO.pdf

"Environmental risk factors play a role in more than 80% of the diseases regularly reported by the World Health Organization."


+ Dirty King Coal / The Economist

http://www.sehn.org/tccdirtykingcoal.html

"Scrubbing carbon from coal-fired power stations is possible but pricey. ... If 60% of the 1.5 billion tonnes of CO2 that America produces every year from coal-fired power stations were liquefied for storage, it would take up the same amount of space as all the oil the country consumes."


+ Nuclear power’s new debate: cost / Christian Science Monitor:

http://features.csmonitor.com/innova...w-debate-cost/

"... nuclear power will cost more per kilowatt hour than other energy sources."


+ European Heat Wave Shows Limits of Nuclear Energy / OneWorld.net:

http://www.sehn.org/tcclimitsofnuclearenergy.html

"Nuclear power depends on a lot of water for cooling. But as the weather gets hotter, so does the water—and it gets scarcer, too."


+ Elevated childhood cancer incidence proximate to U.S. nuclear power plants / Environmental Health

http://www.c-10.org/pdf/Elevated childhood cancer incidence proximate to U.pdf

"This study determined that cancer incidence for children younger than 10-years of age who live within 30 miles of each of 14 nuclear plants in the eastern United States exceeds the national average."


+ Offshore Wind Energy Potential for the United States / National Renewable Energy Laboratory

http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/p...mit/musial.pdf

"Load centers are close to the offshore sites." Offshore potential = current demand!!!


+ THE MAGLEV: The Super-powered Magnetic Wind Turbine / inhabitat

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/11/26/...urbine-maglev/

Simply using Permanent Magnets = 20% more power & 50% less cost = low-center-of-gravity = perfect for offshore!!!


+ Popular Science's 20th Annual Best of What's New Awards / Nanosolar Homepage:

http://www.nanosolar.com

"Nanosolar has created an ink that takes sunlight and converts it into electricity. The ink is coated onto metal sheets as thin as aluminum foil with a printing-press-like device. The sheets are lighter, inexpensive and as efficient as traditional solar panels."


+ Hydrogen Power on the Cheap--Or at Least Cheaper / Scientific American:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hydrogen-power-on-the-cheap

"Chemists have devised less expensive methods for tapping the energy potential of this ubiquitous element."


+ Cheap Hydrogen / Technology Review (MIT):

http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/20134/?a=f

"A new process uses sunlight and a nanostructured catalyst to inexpensively and efficiently generate hydrogen for fuel."


+ Nanoparticles could make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline / EETimes:

http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206801669

"... highly reactive catalytic nanoparticle coatings that could up the efficiency of electrolysis, the technique that generates hydrogen from water."



Wind & Solar can make Clean Hydrogen for back-up in Power Plants...

[MichaelLWagner]

Regarding abundant, inexpensive Clean-Energy, read:


+ U.S. Offshore Wind Energy / U.S. Offshore Wind Collaborative (2009):

http://www.usowc.org/pdfs/PathForwardfinal.pdf

"The wind energy resources off the coasts of the United States are vast and plentiful."

"The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that the wind resources along American ocean and Great Lakes coasts are capable of providing ... an amount equal to the nations current total installed capacity."

"These offshore wind resources are especially attractive because they are located in relative proximity to the country's largest centers of electricity use."



And on those very rare days when there's no Offshore Wind, clean Hydrogen could run Power Plants.



+ New Method Converts Organic Matter To Hydrogen Fuel Easily And Efficiently / ScienceDaily (2007):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071112172203.htm

"The researchers used naturally occurring bacteria in a microbial electrolysis cell with acetic acid -- the acid found in vinegar."

"'This process produces 288 percent more energy in hydrogen than the electrical energy that is added to the process,'..."