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From: Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes)
Newsgroups: sci.energy,sci.electronics,sci.physics
Subject: Re: solar cells
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Date: 4 Jan 91 19:59:57 GMT
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>In article <37487@cup.portal.com> Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes) 
>writes:
>|you took the statement out of context.  In comparison to Nuclear Energy,
>|the solar cells are the Nuclear power plant, *NOT* the fuel that runs the
>|power plant.
>
>I don't care if the poison comes from the construction of the physical
>plant or the burning of the fuel, why do you?

  Because you aren't taking into account the poison that comes from the
physical plant.  If you want to take that into account, then that just adds
similar amounts of poison to each side of the argument.  In addition, I'm not
talking solely about photovoltaic cells - there are other ways to convert
the suns energy.


>
>|All the costs must be added in in order to find the actual price per unit
>|of energy delivered by any source.
>
>So how come you keep ignoring the manufacture of solar cells?

  I don't.  Those are startup costs like the building of a nuclear plant.

>
>|  Chemical "poisons" can be broken down using current technology.
>
>Explain to me how you plan to break down elemental poisons like
>Arsenic and Lead?

  I don't, and never said so.  I said "chemical" and you are talking about
"elemental".  Elemental poisons are not broken down, they are recycled into
the system.

>
>--
>Whatever happened to Global Warming? Could we have some Local Warming?

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