I think modern power plants are just too big and too complicated. My view is that in the long run it is more economical to go in for smaller steam power plants as well as gas turbine plants in the range of 10MW to 50 MW. The plants need to be a lot simpler too. There simply is no need to have eight or nine feed water heaters. Just two should suffice. True there is a slight increase in thermal efficiency by increasing feed water heaters but the increased capital costs as well as downtime losses caused by the extra complications kill any possible advantage. I think the designers have been fooling the public with such complexities. The story is similar to other professionals. Lawyers and Doctors too often complicate simple cases. They say that human greed is at the root of this complication. If things are too simple how will the professional make a living? If a dentist just gives a simple filling that you could almost do yourself instead of a prolonged root canal how will he afford that big car? So can the story be different when it comes to engineers?
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Path_between_sugar_canes_%285216462193%29.jpg Similar Document also available for view or download at: https://www.scribd.com/doc/290825034/On-Revival-of-Soma-plant-of-Rig-Veda Abstract An ancient plant was described as a god amongst plants in the Rig Veda, an ancient sacred text of Indo-Aryans. The proper identification of this plant has been lost to mankind since ancient times. Scholars have made several diverse attempts to identify what this plant might be but none of the proposals come near the original Soma plant. In the present note a possible identification of this plant is made with a likely extinct variety of a sugar cane plant. It is suggested how an existing varieties may be genetically modified to yield a variety close to original Soma 1. Introduction There was a plant of earth that grew around the Himalayas known as Soma. It was regarded by ancient Indo-Aryans as godly plant. Ancient Indo-Aryans...
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Very interesting blogs. I am from the GOUSA. ( good old USA ). While I don't agree with your thought on global warming, I consider the statements made by our commentators to be totaly lacking in an understanding of the principles.
After the second world war the USA had 95% of the oil production etc. But now we live in a global society.
We can't consider the worlds problems only those of the USA. Especially when you consider the amount of fuel burned in China and India.
Coal burning can be 50% more efficient than it is today.
http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/2005/09/about_igcc_powe.html
http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=5465