Microsoft to reopen Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant, Renewables Have Failed.

[Donald H]

Another strawman, a false premise.

Whatever makes you feel comfortable! I qualified my assertion by mentioning that the damage from nuclear will be more confined to the locality.
That's little comfort after Japan got FUKashimED choosing the easy way out.

Did Japan learn anything?

 

[elektra]

No, that's wrong.

And if you're thinking of getting into the 'technical' with me, just don't.

A man must know his limitations

 

[elektra]

Whatever makes you feel comfortable! I qualified my assertion by mentioning that the damage from nuclear will be more confined to the locality.
That's little comfort after Japan got FUKashimED choosing the easy way out.

Did Japan learn anything?

Japan is firing up it's remaining nuclear power plants.

Lesson learned, back-up diesel generators must be located above a storm surge.

We operate the same 50 year old reactors in the USA with no problems, ever.

 

[Matted Joybeard]

Bill Gates has made the decision that solar, wind, and batteries are two weak, expensive, inefficient to power the future.

Three Mile Island (home of one of three U.S. reactor meltdowns) will be reopened after shutting down in 2019.

The power needs of artificial intelligence are so great they will use the entire output of one Nuclear Reactor.

Why Microsoft made a deal to help restart Three Mile Island

A once-shuttered nuclear plant could soon return to the grid.

www.technologyreview.com

This news is fascinating for so many reasons. Obviously this site holds a certain significance in the history of nuclear power in the US. There’s a possibility this would be one of the first reactors in the country to reopen after shutting down. And Microsoft will be buying all the electricity from the reactor.

Bill Gates doesn't even work at Microsoft.

 

[Donald H]

Japan is firing up it's remaining nuclear power plants.

Lesson learned, back-up diesel generators must be located above a storm surge.

We operate the same 50 year old reactors in the USA with no problems, ever.

And Japan's more modern and safer nuclear plants too.
Japan is choosing nuclear over fossil fuels, and for more than one reason. You're just too invested in climate change denial. You can figure it out and get back to us.

 

[elektra]

And Japan's more modern and safer nuclear plants too.
Japan is choosing nuclear over fossil fuels, and for more than one reason. You're just too invested in climate change denial. You can figure it out and get back to us.

If there is climate change, how does the solution, using heavy industry that spews out billions of tons of CO2 building solar panels and wind turbines forever, stop climate change?

Fossil fuels? Do you mean coal, specifically?

Because fossil fuels are not being phased out.

 

[elektra]

Japan is building coal plants to make electricity. Two brand new plants last year, another coming online this year

 

[elektra]

Bill Gates doesn't even work at Microsoft.

Yet, Microsoft is Bill Gates

 

[Oddball]

No
Take the money but think hard of his alternative reasons because the Nerd is bound to also have other plans which his masters will want kept secret for as long as is needed .

Another reason to tell him to pound sand.

 

[Donald H]

If there is climate change, how does the solution, using heavy industry that spews out billions of tons of CO2 building solar panels and wind turbines forever, stop climate change?

I thought you were reasonably intelligent. The suggestion that you're pretending to miss, could be true or it may not be true. I'm not here to debate that. Debate can't happen with ignorant people.

Fossil fuels? Do you mean coal, specifically?

No

Because fossil fuels are not being phased out.

Yes they are. I'm finished with you. I expected better.

 

[elektra]

I thought you were reasonably intelligent. The suggestion that you're pretending to miss, could be true or it may not be true. I'm not here to debate that. Debate can't happen with ignorant people.

No

Yes they are. I'm finished with you. I expected better.

You have been in the environment and energy threads long enough to know I am a technical expert in this field.

I have inspected nuclear power plants, geothermal plants, fossil fuel plants, coal plants, nuclear powered submarines and now a FUSION REACTOR.

I have worked for the Wind Industry.
I have worked for the solar and wind heavy manufacturing industry.

I have also been here on USMB far longer than you, authoring threads on exactly what you refuse to discuss.

My OPs are extremely well researched. I don't need to do any new research. All your questions or points have already been asked or posted by others, and replied to, by me, with the research showing I only present facts.

 

[Crick]

Bill Gates has made the decision that solar, wind, and batteries are two weak, expensive, inefficient to power the future.

Where does he say any such thing?

Three Mile Island (home of one of three U.S. reactor meltdowns) will be reopened after shutting down in 2019.

Fine with me. Another non-emitting source. You're problem is that he didn't decide that fossil fuels were the way to go.

The power needs of artificial intelligence are so great they will use the entire output of one Nuclear Reactor.

That's nonsense. Artificial intelligence can use lots of CPUs but it doesn't require them. I can run an AI program on this PC. If I want to serve a million people at the same time with reasonable response times, it will take more.

This news is fascinating for so many reasons. Obviously this site holds a certain significance in the history of nuclear power in the US. There’s a possibility this would be one of the first reactors in the country to reopen after shutting down. And Microsoft will be buying all the electricity from the reactor.

Electricity doesn't come from a reactor. It comes from generators spun by turbines whose steam comes from a heat exchanger fed by the reactor's primary coolant loop.

 

[Crick]

You have been in the environment and energy threads long enough to know I am a technical expert in this field.

You claim to be but you have not demonstrated the expertise you claim.

I have inspected nuclear power plants, geothermal plants, fossil fuel plants, coal plants, nuclear powered submarines and now a FUSION REACTOR.

You have inspected the welds in such facilities. That gives you nothing in way of expertise in fission or fusion reactions, control systems, heat exchangers, turbines, generators, condensors, sonars, weapons systems or a hundred other things you worked NEAR.

I have worked for the Wind Industry.

Inspecting welds.

I have worked for the solar and wind heavy manufacturing industry.

Inspecting welds

I have also been here on USMB far longer than you, authoring threads on exactly what you refuse to discuss.

Making claims that your posts do not support

My OPs are extremely well researched.

You are one of the sparsest providers of supporting links of any active posters here. If you're doing research, you haven't been telling anyone else about it.

I don't need to do any new research.

Hah!

All your questions or points have already been asked or posted by others, and replied to, by me, with the research showing I only present facts.

Sorry, but no.

 

[elektra]

Electricity doesn't come from a reactor. It comes from generators spun by turbines whose steam comes from a heat exchanger fed by the reactor's primary coolant loop.

crick, I can play your game much better than you. Did you forget I am an expert on nuclear reactors. I have analyzed data from nuclear power plants fir ever.

Electricity does not come from generators inside a nuclear reactor building.

No electricicity is made in a Nuclear Reactor building.

I don't recall any heat exchangers either.

Heat Exchangers do not produce steam, not in a PWR or BWR

STEAM GENERATORS produce steam from water that is pumped through nuclear fuel rods by the reactor coolant pump.

The water, under pressure is fed into the hot leg of the steam generator, exiting from the cold leg where the rcp, reactor coolant pump continues the process.

The primary side of the steam generator does not produce steam, it is simply hot water heating the steam generator tube's which are made of iconell 690 (my specialty.)

The secondary side of the steam generator is where the steam is generated by secondary water. The super heated steam exits the reactor building, never encountering any heat exchanger.

The super heated, dry steam drives the turbine outside the reactor building.

The turbine building is where mechanical energy is converted into electrical energy.

Is that what you meant, crick?

 

[elektra]

You have inspected the welds in such facilities. That gives you nothing in way of expertise in fission or fusion reactions, control systems, heat exchangers, turbines, generators, condensors, sonars, weapons systems or a hundred other things you worked NEAR.

Hahaha
I have never ever inspected a weld inside a nuclear power plant or a geothermal plant or a nuclear submarine.

Nuance is sometimes everything.

I have inspected welds but I am not an AWS CWI. Inspecting welds is one small part of my career.

It is nice to be able to say, yes, I did work on a fusion reactor, the magnetic containment fuels for the plasma reaction.

Do I know the specifics of fusion, no, not at all. Yet, they can not build the fusion reactor without me, the engineers and scientists at MIT needed me, crick. Me!

I can not do the job that the MIT engineers do, the MIT engineers can not do my job.

Does my job give me knowledge of what I work on, hell yes.

 

[Crick]

Nuance is sometimes everything.

That seems a fitting comment coming from you.

crick, I can play your game much better than you.

I rather doubt it, but let's see.

Did you forget I am an expert on nuclear reactors.

I couldn't have forgotten it because you've never established such a thing. There are a dozen kinds of advanced science and technology taking place in a nuclear reactor. Becoming a Naval Nuclear Propulsion Officer requires several years of post grad education and training. You haven't had one bit of any of that.

I have analyzed data from nuclear power plants fir ever.

Fir ever? You mean fir ever, fir ever?

Electricity does not come from generators inside a nuclear reactor building.
No electricicity is made in a Nuclear Reactor building.

I assume you mean a containment building

I don't recall any heat exchangers either.

Really? That's a pretty fundamental shortcoming coming from "an expert on nuclear reactors". Here, look at this. It looks like it was aimed at junior high schoolers. You should be able to follow it.

Inside the containment vessel, the smaller unit with the wiggly pipe? Primary coolant doesn't leave containment and it certainly isn't allowed to boil. The heat exchanger - known as a steam generator on a Naval plant - produces the steam that spins the turbine. You've got some balls calling yourself an expert on anything to do with a nuc plant.

Heat Exchangers do not produce steam, not in a PWR or BWR

You are absolutely wrong about PWRs. That's what's shown in the diagram above. In a BWR, virtually the entire plant has to be within confinement.

STEAM GENERATORS produce steam from water that is pumped through nuclear fuel rods by the reactor coolant pump.

An SG is a heat exchanger.

The water, under pressure is fed into the hot leg of the steam generator, exiting from the cold leg where the rcp, reactor coolant pump continues the process.

That the SG has a hot leg and a cold leg should have tipped you off that its a fucking heat exchanger. The RCP pumps the primary coolant. It's an extremely powerful and extremely reliable pump.

The primary side of the steam generator does not produce steam, it is simply hot water heating the steam generator tube's which are made of iconell 690 (my specialty.)

The primary side doesn't "produce steam" in a PWR because if it did the primary coolant system would explode, the reactor would go supercritical and the whole thing would melt.

The secondary side of the steam generator is where the steam is generated by secondary water. The super heated steam exits the reactor building, never encountering any heat exchanger.

God are you stupid.

The super heated, dry steam drives the turbine outside the reactor building.

It's called the containment vessel, not the "reactor building".

The turbine building is where mechanical energy is converted into electrical energy.

Is that what you meant, crick?

What I meant was that you're not the expert you claim to be but I never expected as successful a demonstration as you've provided.

 

[Matted Joybeard]

You have been in the environment and energy threads long enough to know I am a technical expert in this field.

I have inspected nuclear power plants, geothermal plants, fossil fuel plants, coal plants, nuclear powered submarines and now a FUSION REACTOR.

I have worked for the Wind Industry.
I have worked for the solar and wind heavy manufacturing industry.

I have also been here on USMB far longer than you, authoring threads on exactly what you refuse to discuss.

My OPs are extremely well researched. I don't need to do any new research. All your questions or points have already been asked or posted by others, and replied to, by me, with the research showing I only present facts.

Such a well researched OP that says Bill Gates is calling the shots at Microsoft still.

 

[elektra]

Such a well researched OP that says Bill Gates is calling the shots at Microsoft still.

Ah, you are a gold member here. No wonder you question my OP. I really love to bait people. Put a little information in my OP, see if someone bites. The response tells me a lot about a person.

I have tons of OP's, some of the best, really great OP's. There are a few others here that do the work and research that I do.

You think I would not have a response for a newbie, a gold member, making such a silly remark?

Exclusive: Bill Gates, ousted for misconduct, is still pulling the strings at Microsoft

Insiders say he's Microsoft's secret weapon in the AI wars

www.businessinsider.com

Bill Gates never left​

Insiders say he's still pulling the strings at Microsoft
Ashley Stewart
Apr 30, 2024, 10:31 AM EDT
In 2017, just before Microsoft forged a partnership with a then relatively unknown startup called OpenAI, Bill Gates shared a memo with CEO Satya

 

[elektra]

Such a well researched OP that says Bill Gates is calling the shots at Microsoft still.

Is one sourse good or do you want two. Research, you might, in the future, research your reply. I know I get embarrassed when someone here schools me.

Damn, it seems Bill Gates is working on this AI stuff. On a side note, I was just working on Bill Gates" fusion reactor that MIT is building. I kid you not, so I am actually a source, witness, have personal experience on a Bill gates project.

Bill Gates remains a quiet Microsoft power broker, report says

The Microsoft founder has reportedly been involved in the company's strategy and operations focused on AI

qz.com

Bill Gates remains a quiet Microsoft power broker, report says​

The Microsoft founder has reportedly been involved in the company's strategy and operations focused on AI​

By
Britney Nguyen
UpdatedApril 29, 2024

 

[elektra]

Such a well researched OP that says Bill Gates is calling the shots at Microsoft still.

How about three different articles to your reply you equipped off the top of your head, you know, with no research on your part.

Bill Gates continues to 'backstage' manage Microsoft despite official departure, as Satya Nadella relies on his advice for Microsoft's transformative AI initiative

Despite seemingly exiting Microsoft, Bill Gates still plays a major role in the firm's decision making process.

www.windowscentral.com

Bill Gates continues to 'backstage' manage Microsoft despite official departure, as Satya Nadella relies on his advice for Microsoft's transformative AI initiative​

News
By Kevin Okemwa
published April 29, 2024
Despite seemingly exiting Microsoft, Bill Gates still plays a major role in the firm's decision making process.