World Atomic Output Falls by Record in Fukushima’s Aftermath

[kristopher]

3. Oh, look, another bunch of antirenewable BS by a nuclear greenwasher

Go to any right wingnut website and you find the same kind of screeds every day of the week.

After 50 years of massive government promotion of nuclear:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/112719061

Our solution: Solar power
07/06/2012

Pakistan is living through a severe energy crisis. Though it hurts every thing but the worst hit is industry. As energy security and overall development are closely linked, the latter is deteriorating rapidly and will continue to suffer this, if power outage is not addressed. The economy just cannot recover till the demand-supply gap of power is bridged.

Hour after of load shedding and power cuts are a daily routine in Pakistan. Hence foreign and even local investors are reluctant to invest as electricity - the basic necessity of life - is becoming rare. Here it is quite plain that we must also develop some non-conventional sources of energy. We need to pay attention to alternative sources of power such as solar and wind power etc.

The big tragedy is that our leaders (national, provincial and of industrial community) are not doing much on RE sources, and there has been virtually no improvement on this front. Some areas have the potential power generation and their development will benefit the economy and people alike. Solar energy is one such sector which can be developed fast and could help tackle the energy crisis. Solar power is converting sunlight into electricity, either directly by using photovoltaic or indirectly by using sun's heat for producing steam and running steam turbines.

Both systems can be linked to national or local grids to transmit electricity to individual houses and buildings. Power produced by the two can be stored and integrated with mini grids to ensure its availability even during insufficient solar radiation. Sun's diameter is 109 times larger than that of earth and its radius is 696,000 km while earth's radius is only 6,376 km. Sun's average surface temperature is 5,700C and of earth it is 20C. Amount of solar energy falling on earth's surface is enormous.

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http://www.power-eng.com/news/2012/07/06/our-solution-solar-power.html