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To: hmaly who wrote (55121)	9/14/2001 12:10:54 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 275872

One thought on the demise of the nuclear power industry is that whoever is left should do the following: Design and propose constuction of cookie-cutter small--to-medium-size nuclear power plants. Kind of like Intel's copy-exactly policy. Every plant would be exactly the same, or nearly so. The economy of scale would occur, not because huge plants were designed, but because each smaller plant built was exactly identical. If this was done, I believe regulatory appoval would be almost automatic for copies 2, 3, 4,... Perhaps GE or whoever last built a plant in the US could get pre-approval from a state like California that, if the plants were identical, the licensing and regulatory approvals for the 2nd, 3rd, 4th plants would be streamlined. The disadvantage of copy-exactly in the semiconductor industry -- that it doesn't allow for "improvements" in the copies of the original design, in an industry where improvements occur at a rapid pace -- probably doesn't apply in the nuclear power industry because the technology has plateau-ed and is not evolving quickly anymore. I never understood why every nuclear power plant ever designed seems to be unique. Petz

To: hmaly who wrote (55121)	9/14/2001 6:50:02 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 275872

hmaly, Wave power has finally been perfected. The higher density of water means that waves can make power with almost many times the area density compared to windmills(in reality it will be 200-300 times the power per acre) and waves are more consistent than winds. The only problem is you load up the ocean with hazards to navigation. Home furnaces make zero electricity and the condensing ones can be 95% efficient. The best electrical power sources are in the low 40's in efficiency. the best ones use the waste heat for greenhouses etc and that brings them up to 100% efficient if all the waste heat is used. msnbc.com bigbro.biophys.cornell.edu renewable.greenhouse.gov.au mech.ed.ac.uk doc.mmu.ac.uk Bill