Brittle Power- PARTS 1-3 (+Notes) - Natural Capitalism Solutions

Notes 395Chapter Ten.14 Gerlach 1979; Gerlach & Radcliffe 1979.15 Bruwell et al. 1979; Nuclear RegulatoryCommission 1976b; IIASA 1981.16 Energy & Defense Project 1980:11.17 Congressional Research Service1977:I:62–63, 77.18 Ibid. I:2.19 Glassey & Craig 1978:330–331.20 Los Angeles Times 1981v.21 Patterson & Griffin 1978. A fluidized bedconsists of a layer of sand, ceramic pellets, orother inert, heat-proof particles, buoyantly suspendedby air blown up from below through aporous plate. Fuel is added to the bed. Its combustionkeeps the particles red hot. The turbulentmotion and enormous surface area ofthe particles make combustion very efficientwhether the fuel is gaseous, liquid, or granular.The nature of the fuel is immaterial, andonly simple changes in the fuel-handling gearare needed to switch to a different type.22 Economic Regulatory Administration1981:I:4–12.23 NERC 1979:7.24 Stephens 1973:14.25 Deese & Nye 1981:40.26 Subcommittee on Energy & Power1977:116–117.27 Kalisch 1979.28 Congressional Research Service1977:I:84–89.29 Ibid.:171–17230 Stephens 1973:114.31 Congressional Research Service1977:I:198–200.32 Ibid.:14.33 Ibid.:178, 181.34 Ibid.:255.35 Subcommittee on Energy & Power1978:18.36 Ibid.:9.37 Public Power Weekly 1981.38 Nevin 1969; Pickering 1969.39 Stephens 1970.40 Stephens 1979:206.41 Stephens 1973.42 Energy & Defense Project 1980:77.43 Congressional Research Service1977:I:75.44 New York Times 1981e.45 Eguishi et al. 1981.46 Lovins 1977b, 1978.47 Quirk & Moriarty 1980:93.48 Holusha 1981a.49 Los Angeles Times 1981b.50 As an example of the complexity of managinga large pipeline system (Chapter Nine),just a temperature change of three Fahrenheitdegrees throughout the thirty-six-inchColonial pipeline, or a change in pressure byonly ten atmospheres, would change the volumeof the pipeline by some ten thousand barrels,worth several hundred thousand dollars(Congressional Research Service1977:I:200–201).51 Stephens 1973:34.52 Ibid.:114.53 New York Times 1981q.54 Gage 1978.55 New York Times 1978f.56 Daily Mail 1979.57 Los Angeles Times 1981n.58 Straits Times 1980.59 Business Week 1976.60 New York Times 1978, 1973a.61 Wall Street Journal 1977.62 New York Times 1978d.63 New York Times 1978e.64 New York Times 1981u.65 Actual or threatened contamination ofmass-marketed food has been a fairly frequentploy of extortionists. In late 1981, eyedropsand nasal sprays marketed by SouthernCalifornia chain stores were contaminatedwith corrosive acids (Malnic 1981), leading toa massive product recall; but no extortionattempt was reported, leading to speculationthat the act was purely malicious. Ironically, itappears that the Strategic Petroleum Reservehas already been contaminated (though probablynot irreversibly) by the deliberate substitutionof up to nine million barrels of waste oilfor high-grade crude. This substitution, detectedonly after the “bad” oil had been added,was not meant for extortion, but arose frompure venality (New York Times 1982).66 Billiter 1981.67 ERAB 1980:65.68 D. Goldstein (University of Texas atAustin), personal communications, 4 January1981.69 Houston Chronicle 1977.70 Davis 1981. See also Chapter Nine, Note