There were diesel generators (which are also NOT "fire engines") on-site whose sole job was to power the coolant system.
These were flooded out by the ensuing tsunami, due to a combination of an under-built sea wall and poor positioning of generators (essentially in "basement" areas).
Okay, face it. We're NEVER going to get 100% reduction.
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A combination of lower output sources and demand reduction (requiring tighter building codes for new construction and energy retrofits) can cut demand nearly in half nationwide.
Also incorrect. Fukushima was bad industrial engineering due to cheapassery.
The Fukushima plant survived the initial quake. They were in cooldown, running off the on-site generators when the TSUNAMI hit and flooded out the generators.
1: Had the sea wall been built to specification, there would have been no flood. 2: Had the generators NOT been built at the lowest point in the plant, they wouldn't have been flooded out.
But, in the real world, TEPCO cut corners to save money and the meltdown happened as it did.
This is why you don't build nuclear reactors in fault zones like California. You build lots of renewables where it makes sense (solar, wind, wave) in California. Augment it with natural gas. You then net-meter. During the day, California pushes lots of renewable power out of state. During the evenings, they simply import power from stable power sources back into the state.
If you squirt it out on weeds on your lawn? Get a little on your hands and wash it off? Or like the guy who was basically BATHING in it with no protective equipment?
Is moving away from super-giant bulk-transport fuel guzzlers and trying to fit their purchases to their routes (doesn't make sense buying an A380 to a drop in a regional airfield that can't even accommodate the thing landing (let alone taking off).
I didn't think I'd EVER see it. A "public works" project like this, where they pull back "because they're spending too much".
I think the GND kinda shat in their cornflakes. It either shook some sense into them (unlikely, I know) or they're now living in mortal terror of the backlash on the "rail to everywhere" idiocy in the proposal.
You think Dorsey saying "We can't afford to be neutral." extends ONLY to Twitter?
If so, I've got a bridge to sell you...
I have exactly ONE job I need a payment processor to perform.
PROCESSING PAYMENTS.
I do NOT need, nor do I want, them pushing an ideology on me or interfering with transactions between myself and my clientele!
If that's "Too Hhhhharrrd" for them, they can fuck right the hell off, and I'll take my business elsewhere. All the while hoping they crash and burn in the ugliest possible way.
Being dumped off a social media site? It sucks. And it's stupid in the extreme.
Being shat upon by the person handling your money for you?
That's the kind of thing that gets motherfuckers SHOT.
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Nuclear power is only God's gift to humanity only if the people designing, building and running them don't act like idiots and/or assholes.
There were no "fire engines".
There were diesel generators (which are also NOT "fire engines") on-site whose sole job was to power the coolant system.
These were flooded out by the ensuing tsunami, due to a combination of an under-built sea wall and poor positioning of generators (essentially in "basement" areas).
It's not like anyone would be holding a gun to their heads.
All it takes is a bit of intelligent planning and cooperation.
Granted, assumption of intelligence is probably a stretch too far...
Ow!
Touché!
My taxes.
Made about $1300 less than I did last year.
Paid about $1200 less in federal taxes.
Got about $500 less back from my federal return.
So I made less, gross.
My net take-home was virtually identical.
But because my total withholding was less, I got less back.
Excuse me while I laugh my ass completely off...
No...
What? Could you not sense The DERP???
Okay, now tell us how we're going to do this in the flat, central belt of the US.
Is every wind turbine ALSO going to house a giant water reservoir?
Okay, face it. We're NEVER going to get 100% reduction.
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A combination of lower output sources and demand reduction (requiring tighter building codes for new construction and energy retrofits) can cut demand nearly in half nationwide.
Yeah. Sure.
Now compute the power output of a single large water tower.
Now scale it up to the ACTUAL demand on the grid.
Is every wind turbine ALSO going to have a water tower built into the base?
See my post above.
Here's the link I was too stupid to include.
DERP!
https://youtu.be/3K43XC9J82Q
Watch the section talking about running cars on CNG.
The energy density, the amount of fuel that's carried, and the weight of the tank.
Also incorrect. Fukushima was bad industrial engineering due to cheapassery.
The Fukushima plant survived the initial quake.
They were in cooldown, running off the on-site generators when the TSUNAMI hit and flooded out the generators.
1: Had the sea wall been built to specification, there would have been no flood.
2: Had the generators NOT been built at the lowest point in the plant, they wouldn't have been flooded out.
But, in the real world, TEPCO cut corners to save money and the meltdown happened as it did.
This is why you don't build nuclear reactors in fault zones like California.
You build lots of renewables where it makes sense (solar, wind, wave) in California.
Augment it with natural gas.
You then net-meter.
During the day, California pushes lots of renewable power out of state. During the evenings, they simply import power from stable power sources back into the state.
Nu-cle-ar
Pow-er
WROOOOOOOONG!
https://youtu.be/3K43XC9J82Q
If you squirt it out on weeds on your lawn?
Get a little on your hands and wash it off?
Or like the guy who was basically BATHING in it with no protective equipment?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/m...
There's a HUGE range of possibilities in there.
Is moving away from super-giant bulk-transport fuel guzzlers and trying to fit their purchases to their routes (doesn't make sense buying an A380 to a drop in a regional airfield that can't even accommodate the thing landing (let alone taking off).
Seriously.
When Jack doesn't want to actually answer a question, he'll lie, or dance around the question.
It really doesn't matter though.
Twitter is a Bay Area company pushing Bay Area ideology and "morality".
And if you are an evil "wrongthink" purveyor of a dissenting opinion, fuck you, and you're banned.
#WretchedHive
Every?
Citation necessary.
Sure, MC has decided to be stupid and dickish about this.
I have yet to see Visa, Discover, Amex operate in this fashion.
Also, if EVERY payment processor will, how did SubscribeStar manage to drum up another payment processor?
I didn't think I'd EVER see it.
A "public works" project like this, where they pull back "because they're spending too much".
I think the GND kinda shat in their cornflakes.
It either shook some sense into them (unlikely, I know) or they're now living in mortal terror of the backlash on the "rail to everywhere" idiocy in the proposal.
They're a boutique "name" that stupid people pay hyper-inflated prices for and receive no real value from.
They aren't innovating anything here. They're just relying on "We're Apple! Fat-Margins-R-Us".
Let them crash and burn on this.
Their willingness to boot people for wrongthink?
You think Dorsey saying "We can't afford to be neutral." extends ONLY to Twitter?
If so, I've got a bridge to sell you...
I have exactly ONE job I need a payment processor to perform.
PROCESSING PAYMENTS.
I do NOT need, nor do I want, them pushing an ideology on me or interfering with transactions between myself and my clientele!
If that's "Too Hhhhharrrd" for them, they can fuck right the hell off, and I'll take my business elsewhere. All the while hoping they crash and burn in the ugliest possible way.
Being dumped off a social media site? It sucks. And it's stupid in the extreme.
Being shat upon by the person handling your money for you?
That's the kind of thing that gets motherfuckers SHOT.
He and his buttinsky payment processor can burn in Hell.
Simplify their pricing structure.
But no! This would stop them from milking every last cent out of the people who fly in their little "You must be a contortionist" chambers.