From: Dennis Roberts (droberts@netvectors.com)
Date: Sun Nov 08 1998 - 17:41:49 MST
> Michael Lorrey writes:
> > Solar power generating stations suffer from one serious fault: peak
> > demand incompatibility. being able to store power from this intermittent
> > source for supply to the grid at periods of peak demand (when the power
> > is also worth the most) is of utmost importance.
> Why even worry about an inconsistent energy source like terrestrial solar. If
> you have an technology that can disassemble rock atom by atom and recycle the
> material into useful artifacts(nanomanipulator), group of same could head
> straight down as far as needed converting the local bedrock into whatever
> hardware was required to generate any amount of electricity deemed necessary
> for any purpose. There would be no need to transmit power anywhere except to
> the surface. Since geothermal is essentially a permanently renewable power
> source, why even subtract an Arizona sized tract from our already ( by my
> standards) overcrowded planet
>
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Dennis Roberts
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