[MPlayer-dev-eng] [sidetracking] energy

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 04:42:10PM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > No electricity 1/3 of the time?  That sure is not good enough for me :)
> 
> 3 orthogonal places and you are more than covered ^^;
> 
> Uranium would last at most 40 years.

U235 yes, U238 no
And you mentioned Th232 already ...

That of course doesnt mean wind energy isnt usefull, just that its a
little tricky if theres no wind in the whole contry for a week and you
happen to have some political problems with your neighbors.

Besides according to wiki wind provides a mere 1% of power currently.
We would need 100 times more of these wind mills to just cover the average
but thats the average not the actual need each day.

And theres another problem with pure wind based power economy. As long
as you sell the power on a euro per watthour its one thing but when
the world is forced to have ten times more wind mills to cover the
low wind high power demand days. You effectively also reduce the
euros per plant per hour by the same factor by which you need to have
overcapacity.

So while wind surely could provide more than 1% i really doubt it would
be economic to provide the majority of power.

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