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Sunday, May 23, 2004

Alternate Energy Sources

Alternatives to Oil according to Richard Smalley
"Our Energy Challenge," Livability Summit, Phoenix, AZ; April 22, 2004 (PDF)
This happens to be pretty much the same talk I saw him give as a keynote elsewhere.

TOO LITTLE

  • Conservation / Efficiency -- not enough

  • Hydroelectric -- not enough

  • Biomass -- not enough

  • Wind -- not enough

  • Wave & Tide -- not enough

CHEMICAL

  • Natural Gas -- sequestration?, cost?

  • Clean Coal -- sequestration?, cost?

NUCLEAR

  • Nuclear Fission -- radioactive waste?, terrorism?, cost?

  • Nuclear Fusion -- too difficult?, cost?

  • Geothermal HDR -- cost ? , enough?

  • Solar terrestrial -- cost ?

  • Solar power satellites -- cost ?

  • Lunar Solar Power -- cost ?


Since Smalley is a professor he gives the following as Reading Assignments
- Out of Gas, Daniel Goodstein
- The Prize, Daniel Yergin
- Hubbert's Peak, Kenneth Deffeyes
- Matt Simmons, web site: http:/www.simmons-intl.com
- M. I. Hoffert et. al., Science, 2002, 298, 981
- The Hydrogen Economy, Jeremy Rifkin
- Twenty Hydrogen Myths, Amory Lovins (http://www.rmi.org)
- DOE BES Workshop Report on Hydrogen (http://www.sc.doe.gov/bes/hydrogen.pdf)
- 2003 State of the Future, (http://www.stateofthefuture.org)

5/26/2004: CORRECTIONS-Fixed typo and link

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