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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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