[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - power generator rationalisation

[André Riedel]

2010/9/6 Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net>:
> On 4 September 2010 15:11, André Riedel <riedel.andre at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> There are still some mismatches between source and method.
>>
>> e.g. generator:source=nuclear, generator:methode=fission
>> A nuclear fission do not creates electricity it only creates a steam
>> to power a turbine.
>
> This is really unecessary and pedantic. Every person with any application in
> mind for real-world generators (as opposed to school physics lessons on the
> theory of generation) would understand and appreciate what is meant by the
> proposed tags.
>
> Nobody needs the tag to be
> "generator:method=fission-creating-steam-to-power-a-turbine-that-induces-an-electric-current",
> or
> "generator:method=gasifiying-the-waste-municipal-wood-which-is-then-burnt-at-a-high-temperature-to-avoid-tar-buildup-to-produce-steam-driving-an-electromagnetic-induction-method-turbine".

But there is a difference between using a steam turbine, a sterling
engine or a magnetohydrodynamic generator, but all these can be fired
by coal or fission.

Fission energy could be used by heating water to power a steam turbine
or by using a radioisotope thermoelectric generator or a betavoltaics.

Fission power plants could use 'clean' uranium 238 or (with a special
license) a plutonium uranium mixture (MOX) or Thorium MOX.

Ciao André