>From Steve High
> It occurred to me to consider the heat dissipation issue in terms of > 100 watt incandescent light bulbs, acknowledging that most of the > energy emitted from an incandescent bulb is in the form of heat. So > how many 100 watt incandescent bulbs would be equivalent to the 15 > megawatts of excess heat energy? My math tells me 150,000. Mill's > engineers will need to come up with a way to disperse the heat of > 150,000 100 watt bulbs from a one by one by one meter box. I still > think that's going to take some work. If your calculations are correct I would agree. It seemed to me as if Mills was dismissing the presumed heat generated as a byproduct. It was as if he simply wasn't interested in the heat. Granted, he wasn't against the idea of collecting heat for industrial use. It was more a matter that Mills seemed, at least to me, to be much more interested in collecting the light spectrum for PV cell conversion. (Presumably it would be a far more direct way of generating electricity than from heat & steam.) It's almost as if Mills may be missing the much bigger goldmine here of what is presumed to be a huge amount of generated heat that perhaps in the end may very well have very good industrial applications. This may include the possibility of generating electricity the old fashion way via from steam which in turn, turn turbines to generate it. That said, I am still under the impression that the engineering firms involved would have to be aware of the theoretical amount of heat that is predicted to be generated. Therefore, they will need to address the matter. I don't get the impression that they have been intimidated. My POV is: they are, after all, engineers, and good engineers love a good challenge. Perhaps we may eventually end up seeing how "good" they are... or not. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson svjart.orionworks.com zazzle.com/orionworks
