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- From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 16:20:10 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.193353.6234@ke4zv.uucp> <58220@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1993Jan7.093103.2732@ke4zv.uucp>
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- In article <1993Jan7.093103.2732@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >Actually that's mostly incorrect. My father owned an "early industrial
- >revolution" machine shop that was powered by a single 15 hp electric
- >motor driving overhead jackshafts that turned the machines by way of
- >flat belts. That type of power transmission is over 95% efficient.
- >He ran 5 lathes, 2 milling machines, 3 drill presses, a shop compressor,
- >the blower on the forge, and a fan off that 15 hp motor. Today the same
- >lathes *each* require a 7 hp motor. That single motor could run everything
- >because it didn't have to overcome startup inertia because it was always
- >running.
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- I admit defeat on this. What I should have said is that there was at
- one time, a correlation between the use of water power and living
- standard, just as there has been a correlation between the use of
- electicicty and living standard.
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