[LINK] Hold up your hands if you Like HT Transmission Lines -Was - solar plants

[Tom Koltai]

Kim, to respond to all your comments with references would take all
night and the number of url's, would flag my response as Spam.

Therefore I shall answer some of your comments, in two emails


> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Kim Holburn
> Sent: Monday, 20 June 2011 4:33 PM
> To: Link list
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Hold up your hands if you Like HT 
> Transmission Lines -Was - solar plants
> 
> 
> While I don't disagree that home solar panels are the way to 
> go I don't agree with some of your figuring.  Also we're 
> still going to need baseload power generation so solar is not 
> going to allow us get rid of HT lines.  
> <SNIP>
> On 2011/Jun/20, at 10:28 AM, Tom Koltai wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > Unfortunately, 115,000 homes from 8.2 million homes leaves a lot of 
> > Aussies using the other type of power. You know the one. That Black 
> > Coal stuff. The stuff that kills millions of people every 
> year. When 
> > they mine it, when they burn it.
> 
> Millions?  I don't think so.
><SNIP> 

Work-Related Lung Disease (WoRLD) Surveillance System
http://www2.cdc.gov/drds/WorldReportData/

World mortality totals:  55.2 million life years lost per year.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/entities/death/respiratory_diseases/fk/0l/1t
/

Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis(Anthracosis; Black Lung Disease; Coal
Miner's Pneumoconiosis)
http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/sec05/ch057/ch057g.html?qt=blac
k%2520lung&alt=sh

Air Pollution-Related Illness
http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/sec05/ch057/ch057b.html

Tomk