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[Aeronaut]

Rezwan wrote: Hi Aeronaut – I tried to find the article you referred to. Found another one, but it didn’t have your quote. Seems to be part of a series. Do you have the direct link? Also, that pdf was for the Virginia Water Resources center, seemed to be a brochure about the institute, nothing definitive about water issues.

Jimmy, the article I quoted (not one of it’s sources, who likely does have an agenda), also states that agriculture, industry, and the electric industry are the US’s largest water users in that order. This is a VERY long, multi-faceted article that makes the point that no single industry or resource can be singled out by policy. Rather, water, air, energy, transportation, (just for openers) should be planned in an integrated manner.

Anyway, we’re starting fresh here. Brand new topic thread.

I scanned though the article again yesterday, thinking maybe I’d take a chance with copyright laws and scan it to an attachment, but the sheer number of pages would make it a huge download. I’ll see if they have an online version of the mag that I can link to. Best I could do yesterday was find the link to the organization and person directing the study, including contact information and an idea how they think they see the world.

“Facts” are a lot easier to find online than Facts. All that’s needed is an existing opinion to bolster and a quick search or few. Hence the flat world that most people operate in. Assuming that the heat exchanger will dump the heat to process heating water (for utility), or to air (convenient), we’ve likely covered >90% of the angles we need to address. My first question is what other heat disposal media would be attractive, and why? This can be expanded to a list of companies already building heat recovery add-ons that we have no intention of competing against. FF is a growth industry for LOTS of companies

We’ll also need to be on the lookout for unassailable authority-grade reports such as EIA provides, especially the ones whose context and facts take many aspects of modern society into account. As Eric said in the Google Talks, the aluminum and glass industries are unlikely to scale to global energy demand, at least cost-effectively. Attempting to do so would grossly distort global energy demand numbers. That may be one of our foundation stones.