David B. Barber, MS Biography
- Title:
- Nuclear Engineer at the Idaho National Laboratory
- Position:
- Con to the question "Can Alternative Energy Effectively Replace Fossil Fuels?"
- Reasoning:
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“The wind doesn’t always blow and sunlight isn’t always striking every solar panel. Renewable energy desperately needs a very big battery, a load leveler. Without
some form of energy storage, renewables are physically limited to less than a twenty percent share of the grid. At twenty percent, renewables are more of a headache than a resource for a grid manager. Electricity storage tools are expensive. Very expensive. Too expensive to justify on their own or at societal scale.”“Nuclear Energy and the Future: The Hydrogen Economy or the Electricity Economy?,” www.iags.org, Mar. 24, 2005
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Nuclear Engineer, Idaho National Laboratory, 1994-present
- Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Science and Engineering Fellow, American Nuclear Society, 2007
- Education:
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- MS, Chemical Engineering, University of Idaho
- MS, Radioecology, Colorado State University
- Other:
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