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

[elektra]

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

I just assumed people paid attention to technology and did not need to be schooled on what Bill Gates is doing. Anyhow, I typically tell people to pound sand when they ask for links or, "research" cause I know most are just trolls thinking nobody knows more than them.

Bill Gates influence on Microsoft: “What you read is not what's happening ….” | - Times of India

TECH NEWS : Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, officially left the company and its board in 2020 but has continued to wield significant influence over the tech giant's strategy and operations, according to current and former executives.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

"What you read is not what's happening in reality," one Microsoft executive told Business Insider. "Satya and the entire senior leadership team lean on Gates very significantly. His opinion is sought every time we make a major change," he added.

 

[elektra]

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

How about a big 5 sources? You think they are all fake or do you know more, somehow.

AI? I guess we cut and paste the AI result?
AI Overview
Yes, Bill Gates is still involved with Microsoft, even though he left the board of directors in 2020:

• Advising: Gates advises Microsoft on strategy and AI, and meets with product teams at the company's headquarters.
• Recruiting: Gates helps recruit high-level executives for Microsoft.
• OpenAI: Gates is involved in Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, and has met with OpenAI's co-founder and president to discuss generative AI products.
  
  

 

[elektra]

An SG is a heat exchanger.

Hahaha, funny crick. Go to any nuclear power plant in the USA and ask to be taken to the heat exchanger and they will take you to a heat exchanger, not the Steam Generator.

Heat exchangers. They would take you to a CCW heat exchanger, not the steam generator.

The condenser is a heat exchanger as well but you will never find it if you refer to it as a heat exchanger.

You have no idea how a nuclear power plant operates, from personal experience as I do.

 

[elektra]

Inside the containment vessel, the smaller unit with the wiggly pipe?

Inside the reactor building is a proper industry term.

Wiggly pipe is not a term that is used, crick.

 

[elektra]

I assume you mean a containment building

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

Nobody in commercial nuclear power plants calls it an containment vessel.

We either say, "the reactor building" or we call it, "containment."

Millstone, the last nuke I was at has its containment inside a building.

And, there are three containments, not just one, maybe 4? Can zi say 4? You think I might pull off four containment? That might be a stretch but I been right so many times with you crick I can afford to be wrong, once.

I say 4 containments, not at all plants but some have 4, right?

 

[elektra]

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 primary side does not produce steam because it is not designed to produce steam.

We dont need you to tell us it would go boom if it did. Crick.

 

[elektra]

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.

I been on nuclear submarines. If you ask to be taken to a heat exchanger they will never take you to the steam generator. They might ask you if you are talking about a particular ccw.

Leave my balls out of the conversation, crick

And nobody ever, uses the non-word, "nuc"
Did you mean, nut plant?

 

[elektra]

In a BWR, virtually the entire plant has to be within confinement.

Vitually? That is a big word for you to be using, crick

Wrong again, first of all, it is containment, not confinement.

A BWR, surprisingly has very little inside containment. Hey, crick, are you going to call everything in a BWR a heat exchanger as well? Hahaha

According to crick, BWR's and PWR's use a heat exchanger, right crick? Are you using the same term in both plants?

 

[Crick]

Vitually? That is a big word for you to be using, crick

Wrong again, first of all, it is containment, not confinement.

A BWR, surprisingly has very little inside containment. Hey, crick, are you going to call everything in a BWR a heat exchanger as well? Hahaha

According to crick, BWR's and PWR's use a heat exchanger, right crick? Are you using the same term in both plants?

I'm not an expert on nuclear power plants, but I apparently know a great deal more about them than you who claim to be just such an expert. Do you know what that makes you? You do, don't you. And everyone else as well.

 

[elektra]

I'm not an expert on nuclear power plants, but I apparently know a great deal more about them than you who claim to be just such an expert. Do you know what that makes you? You do, don't you. And everyone else as well.

Expert. Yes compared to you I am an expert. Within my field of expertise zi am above average.

One big difference between me and you, I don't need a Google search to tell me what to think and thus post.

People really have no understanding of the power of one Nuclear power plant and the advances that have made our dwindling nuclear power plants more powerful then their original design.

The idea that we can shut down fossil fuels and coal burning plants and switch to renewables has been proven false.

Coal power was replaced by Natural Gas, not green energy.

Nuclear was attempted to be shutdown temporary and was partially successful.

Yet here we are, about to see Three Mile Island restarted

Palisades on Lake Michigan is being restarted. Watts Bar in Tennessee which was partially built, stopped in the 1980's was finished and brought online.

Vogtle unit 3 and 4 built and online.

Vote Trump, we need Nuclear Power, not the Wall Street enriching wind and solar.

 

[Crick]

Expert. Yes compared to you I am an expert. Within my field of expertise zi am above average.

What does that even mean, besides another clear demonstration of your overblown ego?

One big difference between me and you, I don't need a Google search to tell me what to think and thus post.

The only thing I looked up in Google was an image to post. My father had a BSc in mechanical engineering and a Masters in metallurgy. By older brother has the same Bachelors degree, and a masters and PhD in materials science. I was familiar with basic nuclear plant design when I was in junior high school. I spent years serving on nuclear submarines in the Navy and then many years more working on them as a civilian. I am 'Qualified Submarines' for both the George Washington and Sturgeon class subs and completed a qual sheet for the Los Angeles class as a civilian just for fun. Getting qualified - earning one's dolphins" requires learning all of a boat's systems - not at the level of an engineer or specialist but to a level where you could step into anyone else's place in an emergency, analyze and deduce problems and consider solutions or workarounds.

People really have no understanding of the power of one Nuclear power plant

Of course they do. I think what many fail to understand is how safe a properly designed and operated plant can be. They aren't ticking time bombs but it will be a long time before people forget Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima.

and the advances that have made our dwindling nuclear power plants more powerful then their original design.

Very exciting.

The idea that we can shut down fossil fuels and coal burning plants and switch to renewables has been proven false.

When, where and how?

Coal power was replaced by Natural Gas, not green energy.

Many coal plants were replaced by natural gas. Some were replaced by renewables. Some natural gas has been replaced by renewables. Almost ALL new capacity in this country and Europe has been renewables.

Nuclear was attempted to be shutdown temporary and was partially successful.

The US made no attempt to shutdown nuclear power. They simply made it so difficult to get approval that no one was willing to make the effort. That is starting to change.

Yet here we are, about to see Three Mile Island restarted.

Your contention that Gates choosing to restart TMI rather than build the capacity he needed from scratch is not a rejection or condemnation of renewable power. It was a massive cost saving using a non-emitting technology that Gates is smart enough not to reject. And by showing that the plant can operate again safely, maybe he'll push the American public a small step toward thinking about trusting nuclear power once more.

Palisades on Lake Michigan is being restarted. Watts Bar in Tennessee which was partially built, stopped in the 1980's was finished and brought online.

Vogtle unit 3 and 4 built and online.

All good.

Vote Trump, we need Nuclear Power, not the Wall Street enriching wind and solar.

If you'd like a government that's more interested in our well being than the pocket of the president, you're voting for the most wrong of wrong guys. You continue to make yourself out to be an expert in all these various fields yet your comments show nothing of the kind. Your views on wind and solar are refuted by the facts and don't even make rational sense.

 

[Matted Joybeard]

How about a big 5 sources? You think they are all fake or do you know more, somehow.

AI? I guess we cut and paste the AI result?
AI Overview
Yes, Bill Gates is still involved with Microsoft, even though he left the board of directors in 2020:

• Advising: Gates advises Microsoft on strategy and AI, and meets with product teams at the company's headquarters.
• Recruiting: Gates helps recruit high-level executives for Microsoft.
• OpenAI: Gates is involved in Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, and has met with OpenAI's co-founder and president to discuss generative AI products.
  

Lol. You're were embarrassed you felt pressured to dig up five links to the same syndicated story from the same 24-hour span from 'BIG SOURCES'. Well researched indeed.

 

[elektra]

What does that even mean, besides another clear demonstration of your overblown ego?

The only thing I looked up in Google was an image to post. My father had a BSc in mechanical engineering and a Masters in metallurgy. By older brother has the same Bachelors degree, and a masters and PhD in materials science. I was familiar with basic nuclear plant design when I was in junior high school. I spent years serving on nuclear submarines in the Navy and then many years more working on them as a civilian. I am 'Qualified Submarines' for both the George Washington and Sturgeon class subs and completed a qual sheet for the Los Angeles class as a civilian just for fun. Getting qualified - earning one's dolphins" requires learning all of a boat's systems - not at the level of an engineer or specialist but to a level where you could step into anyone else's place in an emergency, analyze and deduce problems and consider solutions or workarounds.

Of course they do. I think what many fail to understand is how safe a properly designed and operated plant can be. They aren't ticking time bombs but it will be a long time before people forget Three Mile Island, Chernobyl or Fukushima.

Very exciting.

When, where and how?

Many coal plants were replaced by natural gas. Some were replaced by renewables. Some natural gas has been replaced by renewables. Almost ALL new capacity in this country and Europe has been renewables.

The US made no attempt to shutdown nuclear power. They simply made it so difficult to get approval that no one was willing to make the effort. That is starting to change.

Your contention that Gates choosing to restart TMI rather than build the capacity he needed from scratch is not a rejection or condemnation of renewable power. It was a massive cost saving using a non-emitting technology that Gates is smart enough not to reject. And by showing that the plant can operate again safely, maybe he'll push the American public a small step toward thinking about trusting nuclear power once more.

All good.

If you'd like a government that's more interested in our well being than the pocket of the president, you're voting for the most wrong of wrong guys. You continue to make yourself out to be an expert in all these various fields yet your comments show nothing of the kind. Your views on wind and solar are refuted by the facts and don't even make rational sense.

Yet, everyone claims renewables are cheaper, better, capable. They are not.

Three Mile Island is shutdown right now. That means it will cost over billion to restart.

Re-licensing will be in a couple years after starts, another billion?

Renewables have failed. This does prove it.

 

[elektra]

Lol. You're were embarrassed you felt pressured to dig up five links to the same syndicated story from the same 24-hour span from 'BIG SOURCES'. Well researched indeed.

Hahahaha

 

[Crick]

Hahahaha

MJ is saying precisely what I concluded when I saw you posting the same link over and over again immediately after having been criticized for not using links after you having claimed to heavily research your subjects following the claim that you don't need to do further research. All in all, just a mess. Your ego isn't doing you any good. Stop worrying about what people think about YOU and worry about what you SAY.

 

[elektra]

MJ is saying precisely what I concluded when I saw you posting the same link over and over again immediately after having been criticized for not using links after you having claimed to heavily research your subjects following the claim that you don't need to do further research. All in all, just a mess. Your ego isn't doing you any good. Stop worrying about what people think about YOU and worry about what you SAY.

Read your post, you are blabbering, no offence.

I was having fun. You know me, links don't mean much to me cause, you know, I am the expert

 

[Crick]

Read your post, you are blabbering, no offence.

I was having fun. You know me, links don't mean much to me cause, you know, I am the expert

I'm going to keep a copy of that one.

 

[elektra]

I'm going to keep a copy of that one.

Thanks, collect away.

 

[Crick]

I was having fun. You know me, links don't mean much to me cause, you know, I am the expert

Thanks, collect away.

Are you really unaware of what you sound like when you make comments like that? Imagine someone you know saying those exact words. And if you were just trying to be satirical, your history of making very similar claims prevented you from pulling it off.

 

[elektra]

Are you really unaware of what you sound like when you make comments like that? Imagine someone you know saying those exact words. And if you were just trying to be satirical, your history of making very similar claims prevented you from pulling it off.

You have any idea how your trades sound, your pettiness, and your plain old ignorance. I would prefer to stick to subjects, discuss stuff but with 90% of the people here, you are all here to somehow prove everything wrong.

Wind Turbines and Solar fail. Period.

I am in Iowa, none are turning this morning, yesterday afternoon, I seen one turning, the one next to it not turning.

Wind turbines failed