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Uncommon Energy Wisdom
Brian Wang
Nextbigfuture.comOct 5, 2010
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Energy, life, death, infrastructure and
civilization
Cold Chain Pollution
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World Energy Usage Now
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Deaths per terawatt hour
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Direct and Indirect Costs
In October 2009 a US National Research Council congressional
report estimated $120 billion in mostly health damage externalcosts of energy production in the USA in 2005.
EU studies estimate about 1% of GDP cost for fossil fuelelectricity pollution
Chinas pollution cost 5.8% of GDP. 2% of GDP/year to cleanup
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External costs
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Energy has big subsidies
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Supply chains and infrastructure take
time
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100 football fields for 18 MW of power
in Spain
30,600 football fields and over 1 million tons of steel = onenuclear plant (1 GW) with about 40,000 tons of steel
Sanyo has a 130,000-square-foot factory makes 70 MW of solarpanels per year (70 factories to make 1 GW equivalent per year)
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Concrete and Steel
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Comparing oil's inputs to energy
outputs
To match output of cubicmile of oil per year
* 700 1.1 GW nuclear plants
* 1,550 500MW coal plants,* 720,000 3MW windturbines,* 2 billion 2.1KW solarpanels
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Correct Priorities
Reduce air pollution reduce coal usage and
take anti-pollution measures
Decarbonize transportation
Increase nuclear energy as much as possible
Try to get wind, solar, geothermal tomeaningful contribution
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Thermoelectric and doing more with
the heat
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Transportation
Nuclearize commercial shipping
Edison 2
Electric bicycles Software changes for cars
Robotic cars
Try to move less tonnage and move what wedo move more efficiently
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Modular Components now and better
uprates soon
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Factory Mass Produced Pebble beds,
and liquid metal reactors
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Where are the new power plants?
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Proliferation and other fears
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WindKitegen
Nimrod Energy
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Storage
$15,000/MWh less than 20 per cent of
pumped hydro energy for ocean compressed
air bags
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Solar
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Smart Grids, UHVC, and
Superconductors
170,000 power and distributiontransformers installed in utility- andindustrial-operated substations inNorth America.
800,000 km of transmission lines (US)
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Now to 2025
Uprate everything
Factory mass produce reactors, place them atexisting nuclear or coal sites
Fund and work on super game changing
technology
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Now Discussion
Brian Wang
Nextbigfuture.com
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Oil
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Natural gas
GE Pulsed power plant could get to 65%
efficiency
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Energy Storage
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http://www.oe.energy.gov/DocumentsandMedia/MTS_Report_to_Congress_FINAL_73106.pdf
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Vehicle Efficency
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Freight energy
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