Ari Siletz

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Thank you, Ari! LOL!

People living in the hot regions have very short life-span........it is sad and scary! Look at the data, the bottom 30 countries with short life-span are all in hot Africa except Afghanistan......Iran ranks #108 in the world!

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy

I guess we just leave Lut desert as a virgin desert for the time being! Eventually we will find a way to utilize the free resources!

I drove thru solar energy farm before......it is not just a solar farm......high voltage power lines and grid are built around the farm.....so it is a gigantic project.......I heard electricity can't be stored......once electricity is generated, it has to be delivered somewhere.......that is what I heard! I am not a double "E" person!

Good point, Yolanda

Can't imagine working at 159 F degree weather. Though if the pay is good...   :)

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Yes, they can build solar panel farms there......but they still need people to manage the facilities........but it seems to me that it is inhabitable over there.....because it is so hot, it will shorten people's life expectancy.......high heat can even cause organ failures.......they need to figure out that people can function there before they can build solar energy farms! Is the desert hot year around? Is the winter cooler? Maybe they can build the farm during winter if there is one!

Here is a video:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAjlJT6y7nE

They have tumble-weed type of vegetations on the desert floor!

Thank you for sharing!

MPD, would you settle for just nuclear waste?

Unexplored Kavir regions sounds perfect for a "where no man has gone before" vacation. I should change the title of the blog.

This link to bacteria in reactor:

//www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,8...

This link to bacteria in nuclear waste:

//www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Bacteria-fo...

Fuel rod may be too much to ask, but worth a try in an experiment. Along those line, in this video students had fun exposing insects to extremely high levels of radiation to see who would survive. And we used to think pulling wings off flies was cruel!

I have also heard...

I've also heard, can't remember where, that there are places in Kavir Lut that has never, ever, been explored by man (human).  It's hard to believe!  I might have read it in the National Geographic.  Can't remember.  I wish I had a better memory.  But anyway, it's good to know that once again we are number one in one more thing.

P.S. I didn't find anything about bacteria living on nuclear fuel rod with a given temperature.

Still hotter with denials, MPD

Here's the latest on the issue:..

...Love the term "Bacillus infernus." Will have to find a place to use it. Maghaam e moazam Rahbari is too Arabicized, maybe the Latin "Imbecilus infernos!"

Hot topic, Ari

I found more info about the subject, the hottest place on earth:

//www.universetoday.com/14508/the-hottest-pla...

according to this, bacteria has been found in an ambient temperature of 75 degrees C (167degrees F):

//www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc97/3_29_97/bob1.h...

Also, I have heard on nuclear fuel rods living organisms, can't remember  what kind, has been found.  I'll Google some more,,,  

VPK

Glad you are aware of the enormous solar potential in Iran and its benefits over nuclear.

Iran did pretty well with wind energy for a while, even exporting wind farm equipment to Armenia. Solar has never been taken seriously, however, despite the potential. One reason is of course that the technology isn't cheap and the know how to make cost break throughs resides mostly in countries with a background in silicon industry products. By the way, another technical problem that needs to be solved with desert photovoltaics in Iran is, paradoxically, wind. Frequent high winds kick up dust, covering the photovoltaic cells. Iranian scientists may simply have to dump the photovolatic approach and think out of the box...

Ari

I have been saying the same thing about solar energy. Iran is rich in it and should use it. We are stupid to be relying on oil; better solar aka nuclear that is millions of miles away in other words is it safe :-)

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Tavana: Ahmadi may be giving away more than he knows. The Lut desert is perfect for solar energy farms. Figure $0.1 per square meter every hour for about 6 hours of good daylight, conservatively. You do the math for a  100 meter by 100 meter piece of free desert land. Our biggest energy resourse (by far) is above ground, not under it! With a mature solar technology this resource becomes a treasure, allowing Iranians a few more centuries of not having to work.

VPK: The disinfectant grade Lut temperatures give the word "clean energy" a new twist (see above comment to Tavana).

Anahid: Second place is Queensland, Australia. At 69.3 degrees the Aussies can't touch us.

MM

Yes, Kavir e lut is the same as Dasht e Lut This Farsi wiki link gives the various names of Kavir e Lut. 

The term "Dasth e Kavir" (without the Lut) however, sometimes seems to refer to the desert north of Dasht e Lut and sometimes to the entire Iranian eastern desert area (including Dasht e Lut). Not quite sure.

thanks Ari jan, I did not know

that the hottest place on earth is in Iran. At least we are first at something.

same as dasht e Lut?

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Sounds great

No bacteria! Perfect for a new hospital; clean; sterile and warm.

Rush! Rush! Before Too Late!

The "Chaaleh e Markazi e Loot" is the same vast area which AN was offering every single Iranian a free piece of 2 days ago. One million Iranians have already registered for that plan per 'No Fear's' comment on IC with the news. Better hurry up before it is too late. Az Ari nash-needan.