I will take one if it reduces my electric bill and/or property tax.I want nuke in your backyard, not mine. I love it being clean and reliable and cheap if you do not oppose it. If you oppose it and bankrupt the plan it is your fault not mine.
I will take one if it reduces my electric bill and/or property tax.I want nuke in your backyard, not mine. I love it being clean and reliable and cheap if you do not oppose it. If you oppose it and bankrupt the plan it is your fault not mine.
But why can't someone just pile some snow in a box or bowl and put it inside the fridge? You can also put a plastic jug of water outside to freeze then bring it inside to put in the fridge. When it is freezing like this there's free cooling, food should not rot when there's free cooling.depends on the outside temperature. If it's freezing, you can put frozen foods outside, but not the stuff in your fridge of course
This is exactly what some of my friends were doing, turning their refrigerator into an ice box. For this to work effectively one must resist the urge to open the refrigerator door.You can also put a plastic jug of water outside to freeze then bring it inside to put in the fridge.
That's regardless of ice box or real refrigerator mode when you are freezing cold and electricity is $9 / kwh.This is exactly what some of my friends were doing, turning their refrigerator into an ice box. For this to work effectively one must resist the urge to open the refrigerator door.
A snow bank ... the ultimate no cost refrigerator/freezer.I was always told that you can leave your food outside when you run into cold weather and power out condition. Would that have worked? or it is really urban legend?
These days it is impossible to build a nuke without a government backed guarantee. All the foreign plants don't break ground until a government backs the budget overrun, and you know they all overrun.Most nuclear plants in the US and Canada are well over 40 years old and have timed out at least once on their initial license. Even the “ modern” South Texas plant didn’t get commercial until 1994 making it 27 years old. The Three Mile Island incident was in 78, I believe, and the Chernobyl incident was in 86. To make matters worse it seems seems every plant built was massively over budget. At the South Texas plant the contractor, Brown and Root, was skidded off the job. The Hollywood movies did not help the cause.
So what’s it going to be? Carbon free or nuclear free? Hard to get by without one or the other.
Most nuclear plants in the US and Canada are well over 40 years old and have timed out at least once on their initial license. Even the “ modern” South Texas plant didn’t get commercial until 1994 making it 27 years old. The Three Mile Island incident was in 78, I believe, and the Chernobyl incident was in 86. To make matters worse it seems seems every plant built was massively over budget. At the South Texas plant the contractor, Brown and Root, was skidded off the job. The Hollywood movies did not help the cause.
So what’s it going to be? Carbon free or nuclear free? Hard to get by without one or the other.
OVERKILL, what's your opinion of Bill Gate's nuclear power plant initiative? He claims they are developing a much simpler and safer power plant.
https://www.terrapower.com/people/bill-gates/
That's the whole SMR philosophy, try to offset the lower productivity of the plant by greatly increasing simplicity and driving down CAPEX and OPEX. It's kind of the opposite philosophy of what got us to massive 1,200MW+ nuke units, where economy of scale drove up output.
I'm very excited about it, but I don't think it will go as well as planned. We've already seen major design changes on designs working their way through the various VDR processes, which is par for the course for paper designs, and we'll see more issues during initial construction and operation, as is the case for anything FOAK. That doesn't mean they won't work, but it will make them more expensive (initially) and presents obstacles and delays.
Compared to building a cookie-cutter design like the C6, there are going to be all kinds of surprises, this will draw-out construction, time, and increase cost. So I still feel that for replacing big existing sources of power we should go with mature designs that can be built quickly. For markets where large units don't work, that will be where SMR's absolutely shine.
Just confirming a big lie ... but great timing of the lie and retractionThe Bezos compost !
Yall need some insulation in your walls!
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