Reply To: 600 kmph MonoRail Ship Ferry VLCC Fare $1/100 km

[Brian H]

Aeronaut wrote: I think you’ll like my newly populated site, Brian. The header needs graphic interest, but the content and typesetting are about done. As to promoting it, wellllll, first we have to see what the Society thinks.

http://global–village.com

Well, you don’t provide an email address, so here’s a few initial responses:

–This is numerically confused:
“An executive’s most powerful tool is the leveraging of his or her contacts, employees, and suppliers. Since the average coal-fired power plant is rated at 1GW (1 billion watts) or more and blows through $2,000,000 worth of coal in less than a week, every GW hr eliminated from demand can eliminate one of the new coal-fired plants. This is what Green is really about- investing wisely to reduce our national demand for burning fossil fuels.”

Watts is a power measurement. GW-hr is an energy-used measurement. I can use 1 GW for one hr, or 1 watt for 1,000,000,000 hrs, both make 1 GWh. So eliminating 1 GWh from demand eliminates the need for 1 HOUR of a coal plant output. You need to eliminate 1 GW from demand for every hour of every day of the year for every year to eliminate the need for that plant.

–neutrons, not ” nuetrons”. As in “neutral”.

–FF is no longer a $2M project. Its research costs have been covered for the next 2 yrs, and a separate round of funding for engineering development will be undertaken when the results are in. It is likely to run $3M or more, and will be done with proof-of-concept in hand.

–“Get licensed to build Focus Fusion power systems, keeping jobs in towns with failing manufacturing facilities. While patented, Focus Fusion is a business model that is not focused on cornering the market for clean, cheap, and abundant energy. Focus Fusion is a 503(c) non-profit organization. “

Several problems here. Licenses are not yet available, and would be meaningless until the prototype design is complete. Second, the “business model” is that of Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, not the Focus Fusion Society, as such. LPP intends to be profitable, but not (as you say) by establishing a monopoly.