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500 acres to power 11000 homes?
One small molten salt reactor buried underground in a footprint smaller than a football field would power more than twice that many homes.
The republicans hate solar because the left supports it. Honestly the only reason they're against it.
Bull, Republicans are for things that make sense.
Does spending $476M to save $178M over 30 years make sense to you?
And that's if the solar panels last for 30 years, which I doubt since nothing lasts that long here in the Florida sun.
Nobody complained about Martin Solar when it was Martin natural gas...lol... Suddenly you have a problem with that power plant's output when it matches the one it always had from gas?
Nuclear? Really? Would you like me to start posting Fukushima updates again? One core meltdown can ruin your whole...240,000 years and your country's food and drinking water supply forever. Children of Chernobyl? Is it time to dig those photos out again? I mean, I can if you want...
Yay now they can still jack everyone on their bills and make more profit
So? People pay what they paid before. You think all of a sudden people will sit up and start complaining that the energy they consume at the same rate they're used to is less harmful to our atmosphere now?
What strange spinning y'all are involved in. Just give up the horse and buggy already. It's a new century and new innovations mean new sources of money. Do they always have to necessarily be destructive to the environment? It's like a cult with you guys; the cult of soot, sludge and destruction. It's the oddest thing...
500 acres to power 11000 homes?
One small molten salt reactor buried underground in a footprint smaller than a football field would power more than twice that many homes.
Yes, but why boil water with technology that if one thing goes wrong will wipe an area this size off the globe for human habitation? The risks are not worth it when we have so many other ways of boiling water. Again, when this plant was powering just those 11,000 homes with natural gas, where was your criticism of it then? Hmmm?
I hate to burst your bubble but you might want to read about the experience in Germany with solar and wind power.And the first major hurricane here will wipe those solar panels out in one fell swoop.
Already sabotage is "suggested"..lol..
Hey, guess what? Those "panels" aren't panels. They aren't even a thumbnail as expensive to mass produce as solar photovoltaics. They are simply mirrors. Just parabolic mirrors. Formed steel. No circuitry at all except their sun trackers, which are also relative easy to construct.
And your solution when that hurricane wipes out the carbon generator sitting right next to this system? The nuclear power plant? Should we scrap those too? [we absolutely should for nuclear]. Silly. If I had to pick a power plant to revamp after a hurricane or increasingly common freak tornado swarms, it would be a solar thermal plant, hands down. Cheapest by far.
Instead of stewing in sour grapes and obviously schilling for the petroleum industry, why not just invest in a cash cow that solar thermal hybrid plants are and switch over to creating biodiesels. Guess what? Creating biodiesels are much less expensive than mining petroleum and the energy you use to create them can be gotten by...*drum roll*.... solar thermal heaters! Right in the Midwest you can set up a biodiesel plant. Right where the fuels to mix with petrol are made. Train or truck those down to your Texas refinery, sit back and watch the cash flow in.
You aren't going to roll the clock back on the good old boon days of big tuna boat passenger cars and unending military presence in the Middle East.
And, recent earthquakes in the Texas town being fracked, right near the well site are alarming. Particularly because a lateral shear earthquake can shatter a well casing allowing corrosive solvents and deadly chemicals to enter the last reserves of fresh water this nation has underground to use for agriculture. We are overdue for "The Big One" in the New Madrid fault running down the Mississippi River roughly. Because of the nature of the strata in the Midwest, the earthquakes there are felt and experienced at a much wider radius than like they get in California. They are felt for hundreds, sometimes many hundred of miles. That's within fracking areas.
Just stop. Stop it. The bottom line is your bottom line anyway guys. Just figure out new ways to corner the market, lobby Congress [you know the drill] to get your monopolies and sleep at night knowing your whores and cocaine parties are at least paid for by doing something good for the world while you're ripping the chumps blind at the pumps. Fair enough?
I hate to burst your bubble but you might want to read about the experience in Germany with solar and wind power.And the first major hurricane here will wipe those solar panels out in one fell swoop.
Already sabotage is "suggested"..lol..
Hey, guess what? Those "panels" aren't panels. They aren't even a thumbnail as expensive to mass produce as solar photovoltaics. They are simply mirrors. Just parabolic mirrors. Formed steel. No circuitry at all except their sun trackers, which are also relative easy to construct.
And your solution when that hurricane wipes out the carbon generator sitting right next to this system? The nuclear power plant? Should we scrap those too? [we absolutely should for nuclear]. Silly. If I had to pick a power plant to revamp after a hurricane or increasingly common freak tornado swarms, it would be a solar thermal plant, hands down. Cheapest by far.
Instead of stewing in sour grapes and obviously schilling for the petroleum industry, why not just invest in a cash cow that solar thermal hybrid plants are and switch over to creating biodiesels. Guess what? Creating biodiesels are much less expensive than mining petroleum and the energy you use to create them can be gotten by...*drum roll*.... solar thermal heaters! Right in the Midwest you can set up a biodiesel plant. Right where the fuels to mix with petrol are made. Train or truck those down to your Texas refinery, sit back and watch the cash flow in.
You aren't going to roll the clock back on the good old boon days of big tuna boat passenger cars and unending military presence in the Middle East.
And, recent earthquakes in the Texas town being fracked, right near the well site are alarming. Particularly because a lateral shear earthquake can shatter a well casing allowing corrosive solvents and deadly chemicals to enter the last reserves of fresh water this nation has underground to use for agriculture. We are overdue for "The Big One" in the New Madrid fault running down the Mississippi River roughly. Because of the nature of the strata in the Midwest, the earthquakes there are felt and experienced at a much wider radius than like they get in California. They are felt for hundreds, sometimes many hundred of miles. That's within fracking areas.
Just stop. Stop it. The bottom line is your bottom line anyway guys. Just figure out new ways to corner the market, lobby Congress [you know the drill] to get your monopolies and sleep at night knowing your whores and cocaine parties are at least paid for by doing something good for the world while you're ripping the chumps blind at the pumps. Fair enough?
I can't post a link yet as I don't have 15 posts under my belt. Watch this space.
Fun fact, the exclusion zone around Chernobyl where no person is allowed to go or at least not live is larger than the country of Japan.
are you an idiot or you have no idea about basics in geography?
Japan's territory is 377,923.1 km2
The Exclusion Zone covers an area of approximately 2,600 km2
are you really THAT stupid?
500 acres to power 11000 homes?
One small molten salt reactor buried underground in a footprint smaller than a football field would power more than twice that many homes.
Yes, but why boil water with technology that if one thing goes wrong will wipe an area this size off the globe for human habitation? The risks are not worth it when we have so many other ways of boiling water. Again, when this plant was powering just those 11,000 homes with natural gas, where was your criticism of it then? Hmmm?
500 acres to power 11000 homes?
One small molten salt reactor buried underground in a footprint smaller than a football field would power more than twice that many homes.
Yes, but why boil water with technology that if one thing goes wrong will wipe an area this size off the globe for human habitation? The risks are not worth it when we have so many other ways of boiling water. Again, when this plant was powering just those 11,000 homes with natural gas, where was your criticism of it then? Hmmm?
You don't know anything about molten salt reactors if you're comparing them to an old breeder style reactor.
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Waste-Annihilating Molten Salt Reactor - Business Insider
Fun fact, the exclusion zone around Chernobyl where no person is allowed to go or at least not live is larger than the country of Japan.
are you an idiot or you have no idea about basics in geography?
Japan's territory is 377,923.1 km2
The Exclusion Zone covers an area of approximately 2,600 km2
are you really THAT stupid?
Yes. Yes, she is. Silly is basically a 2-note human spambot. When caught in her lies, she responds by reposting the same images (despite many having been proven bogus) and regurgitating pages and pages of the same copy-pasted BS over and over and over and over.
So FPL spent $476 M to save $178 M over 30 years.
My ass. Do you know what it means to not burn carbon and sell free energy from the sun for most of the year? It adds up to more than that pal. They'll probably have that plant paid off in five years. Imagine selling donuts and having to pay the overhead to truck in flour, sugar, salt, confections etc., energy for the ovens, the deep fryer, the lights in the display case and selling donuts to make a living. Then one day someone comes in and designs a system for you that costs maybe $10,000 [in relative terms to the outlay for the solar thermal plant] that will save you having to buy all those things in overhead to provide your customers with donuts. That's what this plant is. You sell your donuts at the same price but after that new machine is paid off in a couple of years, five maybe tops, you are selling your wares at an ungodly profit margin.
That's what's happened in Florida. They got a machine that provides free boiling water: which is the same as free energy. It's an embarassingly simple technology long known of but suppressed because boiling water with deadly radiation or polluting carbon was a much more tricky endeavor...and therefore..easier to monopolize..
You don't know anything about molten salt reactors if you're comparing them to an old breeder style reactor.
No Jar Jar Binks, I'd only invest in a linear solar concentrating array that concentrates superheated solar radiation on a nearby tube.And as expected, just more of the same tired old BS from the same tired old spambot...746th post, same as the first 745.
Were you one of the idiots who invested in Evergreen Solar, Silly?
You don't know anything about molten salt reactors if you're comparing them to an old breeder style reactor.
I know that all you're doing with them is boiling water to run turbines.
And, I know that they are much more expensive to permit, run and manage waste for than merely reflecting the sun with parabolic mirrors onto a tube filled with oil that goes to boil water to run turbines.
I know if I was investing in a new or old power company, I'd invest in the one that gets free water boiling/turbine running from the sunshine instead of some ghastly high-overhead $$ public nuisance or unnecessarily complex toxic process.
In short, to quote Idiocracy, "I like money..."
