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To: MSI who wrote (183125)9/17/2001 7:45:51 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
No one lives in or near South Dakota and household energy is only a small part of the total. Now when the improved chip become available what will be the mix of chemicals that make up this new stuff. This is stuff never before created in the natural environment. Now the tons of this that will be required will have a service life and what wonderful chemistry will leach out into the world where people live. Also lots of batteries. A little lead or other exotic chemicals are good for you.

Nuke plants produce very small amounts of nasty stuff that can be isolated and guess what it glows so you can know very easily that it is contained. Nuke plants send cheap reliable electricity over copper and aluminum. No CO2 gas, no other pollution. Zero people of the public have died from any nuclear plant accident and no-one from radiation poisoning.

You can dream on about buck rogers solutions. I know what works and is safe and reliable and cheap.

tom watson tosiwmee



To: MSI who wrote (183125)9/18/2001 8:14:27 AM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
Hi MSI; Moore's law has to do with getting more out of a given area of silicon. Unfortunately, photovoltaics can't be shrunk in area. That's not to say that they can't be made cheaper. They undoubtedly will. Just that it's not that engineers have ignored a simple way of using Moore's law to make photovoltaics 10,000 times cheaper over the last 20 years.

-- Carl


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