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World Electric
Power
The
World could be achieved clean energy by manufacturing
10,000 Clean Power Plants that
will
generate
electricity, make petrochemicals from coal, biomass, & oil, manufacture
consumer & industrial products, desalt seawater for domestic drinking
water and irrigating crops, and split water directly into hydrogen &
oxygen for industrial applications.
The actual number will depend upon each
country�s customs, climate, and economic needs. The power plants would be built by ten
manufacturing facilities like the automotive and airline industries. The
manufacturing facilities are located in countries with the
largest energy demands. Each facility would produce one power plant
per week or 100 per year. With ten manufacturing facilities, 500 power plants could
be produced every per year.
The construction of the
manufacturing facilities to assemble
the power plants. The power
plants would be located where the energy demand is the highest to reduce
the cost of transmission lines. After twenty to thirty years, every
country in the world would have sufficient energy to move into the 21st
century.
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Clean Power Plants
would be 50% efficient and generate clean electricity cheaper than
coal or about 3 cents per kilowatt. If process energy were used in people�s homes and
businesses, the power plant�s efficiency could increase to 85%. Chemical
companies could use process energy to make petroleum and consumer
products.
A
1,200 Megawatt power plant, for example, would burn a metric ton of thorium or uranium
and would generate 10 Billion kilowatt-hours of electricity that is
worth
$1 billion at 10 cent per kilowatt. Power plant would reprocess the fuel onsite. The metric
ton of waste would have 300-year lifetime compared to 10,000 to
100,000 years from nuclear power plants.
Clean Power Plants
would be 50% efficient and generate clean electricity cheaper than
coal or about 3 cents per kilowatt. If process energy were used in people�s homes and
businesses, the power plant�s efficiency could increase to 85%. Chemical
companies could use process energy to make petroleum and consumer
products.
A
1,200 Megawatt power plant, for example, would burn a metric ton of thorium or uranium
and would generate 10 Billion kilowatt-hours of electricity that is
worth
$1 billion at 10 cent per kilowatt. Power plant would reprocess the fuel onsite. The metric
ton of waste would have 300-year lifetime compared to 10,000 to
100,000 years from nuclear power plants.
Countries
would use their enormous natural resources of thorium and uranium. Countries
with spent
fuel, depleted uranium, thorium, and plutonium left over from the
cold war would be processed into fuel for the Thorium and Uranium
power plants. There is enough thorium and uranium to supply the
United States energy needs for over 10,000 years.
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Mirror Power Plants are three times more efficient
than existing power plants. Matter
and mirror matter are converted into Mirror Energy according to the
mass times the speed of light squared. Using the same example, a
1,200 Megawatt power plant would use 200 grams of mirror fuel and
would generate 10 billion kilowatt hours of electricity with an
estimated value of $1 billion at 10 cent per kilowatt.
Existing fossil
power plants could be upgraded. This would save both time and money
by utilizing the existing infrastructure. After the power plants
become operational, the existing builds, cooling towers, etc would
be demolished. The excess property make available for homes,
businesses, schools, and parks.
There is enough
mirror
matter to supply the
World's
energy needs for
billion of years.
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Hydroelectric, Solar,
and Wind would
also
provide clean energy.
Each
country needs to determine how to best utilize these
alternative energy sources.
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Grid would replace the Smart
Grid because the demand for electrical power would be flat
throughout the day and night. The Smart Grid implements the Cap and
Trade System for carbon dioxide emissions tax that
in
the United States could triple
electrical rates from 10 to 30 cents per kilowatt-hour.
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Carbon
dioxide emissions
are reduced below the current level of 33 billion metric tons per year.
Carbon dioxide emission could be cut in half to 15 billion metric tons if industrialized
countries didn't use the Cap and Trade System of selling carbon dioxide
credits to other countries.
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Economics In the United
States, a 1,200 Megawatt
power plant would cost
approximately $1 billion. The actual cost would vary by country.
Countries could offer a proposed Tax Incentive would enable
companies to depreciate the new power plants over five years and
have a five-year payback. After five years, the cash flow could be
taxed at 50% and generate tax revenue.
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U.S.
Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Power is currently working with
the Generation
IV International Forum,
an international
collaboration on the next generation of nuclear power plants to meet the
World�s future clean energy needs. The Office
of Nuclear Power
help with support from the World Nuclear
Association
could enable
countries
construct manufacturing facilities and build 10,000 Thorium, Uranium or Mirror
Energy Power Plants.
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