Re:Germany sets new solar-power record
by SagelyGuru on Monday May 28, 2012 @02:31AM
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Yes, why use simple cheap solar panels that can easily be replaced if we can over engineer everything to the nth degree?
Thank you for illuminating the core difficulty of too much centralisation: mounting problems and mounting costs.
Looking at Fukushima, it is not the terrorists and the meteors that frighten me the most. It is the simple combination of the everyday events like earthquakes, with corruption, inefficiency, cost-cutting and the culture of secrecy that fosters and supports it all. These are the real but invisible dangers that you cannot shoot down from your robotic space platforms.
Newer designs are not used because the environmentalists would rather have political power than electrical power.
Wait a minute. Last I checked it was not "environmentalists" running these facilities?
Also, nobody would turn against a design that can be proven safe. The problem is: that design doesn't exist.
The meteor problem is even easier to solve.
Your naivety is somewhat amusing. It seems you are watching too many bad hollywood movies.
The meteor problem is even easier to solve. We need to build observation telescopes, lots of them. We then use off-the-shelf rockets to paycheck off-the-shelf nuclear bomb interceptors mounted on almost-off-the-shelf delivery platforms.