I can across this video and with the new resurgence of nuclear power, I thought many of you may want to see this small informative video of Three Mill Island's re startup in 2028
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Three Mile Island's Revolutionary Restart in 2028
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I suppose the power will be going to a data center somewhere nearby, or to Langley.
I worked at TMI for 30 years. It and Oconee were the best running plants in the world. I am still considering going back but right now I am transitioning to living in Masonic Village in Elizabethtown. Starting salary for experienced engineers there is $100/hour.
There was an article in our local newspaper that Google is buying the power for a data center somewhere
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Yep, TMI coming back, and Palisades is coming back even sooner. It's nice to see. Would be great if some of the other plants that were shutdown could be restarted as well, none of them were near their end of life, it was all financial.
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I remember my father telling me over and over as a kid in the late 60s, that nuclear power was the only abundant energy source that we could count on to power our world once computers began to really take off. Seems he was may have been right.
It would be much better if the nukes were coming back to replace fossil fuels instead of powering the useless AI garbage. Heaven forbid we doing something good when there is a quick buck to be made.
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Unfortunately, that's a hard sell right now, given how Summer was cancelled mid construction and Vogtle became a bit of a boondoggle. I'm hopeful somebody picks up the pieces at Summer and finishes that project, at which point we can start looking at other sites that were planned for more units like Seabrook for example.
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The world will be a vastly different place in 10 years due to AI. Mark my words.
- Beginning of UBI (universal basic income) due to massive unemployment.
- Possible caste system for those who can't compete and the "smart ones".
- Robots will be more common place and can do menial jobs such as janitorial and farm work.
- Many people will not drive anymore because:
- Unemployment
- Addictive entertainment options keeping people at home.
- AI / computer / brain interface will make Tik Tok look like childsplay (I know people working on an EEG version of this, basically wireless neuralink).
- DIY movies with quality similar to or better that $100MM Hollywood productions.
- Basically dopamine overflow, society will be addicted and less productive. As long as they are fed, they will not care.
- Medicines that will provide possibly everlasting life to those that can afford it.
- Possible upheaval in stock market due to contraction in auto, airline, and other last century buying trends that the current generation does not care for.
- Local and Geopolitical issues.
- AI control political decisions, I.E. Palantir
- Proliferation of new weapons / super viruses by nefarious actors. Literally some guy in a home lab will be able to DIY something awful.
- AI Facial recognition will reduce crime and to some this may seem like a police state and to others as safety.
- Chicago is supposedly already dispatching drones to crime scenes to verify and assess the threat before police cruisers arrive.
This is just my prediction based on some surface level knowledge listening to the tech prophets of our time. Many predict AI will allow our society to be more creative and entertainment based. Who knows, all I can say is the way of life is going to be massively different IMHO.
"Luddites Smashing Textile Machines" Those AI data centers better be well protected lol.
Yeah AI is going to make things different but only because it is going to make everything into a big steaming garbage pile. I don't think it will ever be able to do the dystopian things. Maybe a mechanical turk at most.
Watch Idiocracy. I thought it was a funny movie some 15 years ago. Now it seems more like a documentary.
Yep...look at the only country in the world that has 30% of the Uranium, a swag of Thorium ... and a blanket ban on Nuclear.
Deindustrialisation is the only option...
https://www.netflix.com/title/81198239
The lure of $$$$ gives me concern for a company like google to operate a nuclear plant safely. And no, I'm not anti-nuke.
The lure of $$$$ gives me concern for a company like google to operate a nuclear plant safely. And no, I'm not anti-nuke.
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They have to follow the same regulations as everyone else, no matter who is operating the plant.
I hope these announcements adds more urgency to restart construction of the two VC Nuclear plants. Discussions are still underway or better said the idea is now being floated around. I use to ride my bike past them all the time. Maybe less then 10 straight line miles from our home until two years ago. I think if they didnt shut down the construction we would have been the most nuclear powered state. As of right now we are almost or over 50% nuclear power electricity. Around #3 in the USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_C._Summer_Nuclear_Generating_Station
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgil_C._Summer_Nuclear_Generating_Station
You are quite wrong IMHO. The world is changing. Enjoy the ride.
I saw a contractor running MULTIPLE 4" fiber optic lines down 68 several years ago. My bet would be somewhere near Fredrick Md.
