NFR Data Centers near you?
- Thread starter Flymph
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Non-fishing related
I was always anti-nuke, but because I am so concerned about the effects of man-made climate change, I have changed my position. I'd like to see us build these new modular nuclear reactors and install more wind and solar--anything to get us off fossil fuels.
Rob Allen
Life of the Party
I just described how wind power is absolutely filthy. It may be cleaner that coal true but it is not at all clean. I have already described exactly how.
You can rationalize them being greener that does not make them green.. as for nuclear power i have already explained why burning up all our nuclear waste in modern reactors makes the waste situation infinitely better. 300 years and our nuclear waste is completely harmlesd.
Rob Allen
Life of the Party
Not unless they fish over spawning steelhead
Virtually 100% of utility-scale wind farms in Klickitat County are sited on private agricultural and dryland wheat ranching land leased from local owners.
Sounds like you'd need to talk to the county regarding zoning, or private landowners to express your concerns regarding additional wind farms, or expansion of existing ones.
Sounds like you'd need to talk to the county regarding zoning, or private landowners to express your concerns regarding additional wind farms, or expansion of existing ones.
That sounds like the perfect age the Guinness Book Of World Records targets
Friend and I were talking about this the other day, the only Guinness records that seem to have stuck in out 56/57 year old brains were
A- tall guy
B- siamese twins
C- the guy with the really long curved creepy-as-all-get-out fingernails
D- Sears tower as tallest building
the rest of it was just stuff for data center to salt away and put into the algorithm. A place to emphasize often dubious "facts" over wisdom....
x2....SMR's (small modular reactors) are in use in multiple countries with zero issues so far, and the various iterations of 'pocket' nuke generators, literally cargo container sized, should be deployed in the next few years at most.
Why not data centers built as remotely as possible with access to non potable water and run on nuke, which would eliminate both the drain on the public grid and the need for eminent domain over thousands of acres of private land in order to build transmission line.
I've only heard two people ever describe wind power as 'filthy', Rob being the second. At least he didn't do it standing in front of an Arab gifted 747 about to dump thousands of gallons of fuel exhaust on the way to the golf course.
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downriver79
Steelhead
Don't forget the guy with like 197 children.
Bill Gates has invested heavily in a company Terrapower. The nuclear reactors use sodium for cooling rather than water.
TerraPower | Natrium Nuclear Energy | Isotopes Cancer Treatment
Leading innovations in nuclear applications for reactor and storage technology, while advancing methods to transform the fight against cancer.
www.terrapower.com
Maybe not on the size needed for data centers but a step in the right direction...
Don't forget about the worlds fattest twins - they road motorcycles!
I did forget... The McCrary boys, Billy and Benny.... doing my research now.... using the power and resources of AI as the overlords intended, searching outcomes with.... "what happened to..." and this AI stumper: "who are the fattest twins alive that ride motorcycles?" and the obvious follow up "who are the fattest twins to flyfish"
and AI gave me this:
The Fattest Twins to Flyfish — The McGuire Twins
The McGuire Twins — Billy Leon McCrary and Benny Loyd McCrary — are widely recognized as the world’s heaviest twins, and their story is one of medical mystery, resilience, and fameApparently, they not only rode motorbikes, they flyfished!
I seen it on the innnernet so must be true....
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Flymph
Life of the Party
Eight Amazing Next-Gen Wind Turbine Designs
Renewable energy is growing at unprecedented rates. As the world relies more heavily on these power sources, it highlights their cost, efficiency and reliability, which must improve to...
www.renewableenergymagazine.com
Better Wind generated energy is on the way and it can't come too soon. Calling it filthy energy is about as logical as "Clean Coal".
Nuclear waste and memories of Chernobyl/3-Mile Island still linger making nuclear innovation tough to sell.
I can confirm that at least 83 of them are on my friends giant cattle and wheat ranch. Yep, 83!! She smiled and said "it sure makes ranching a little easier!" Haha! I bet it does. It obviously put them into a WAY higher tax bracket. The good news is they are good people and give considerable amounts of money to WSU for Agriculture. Do they like the way they look? Nope. But if any of us were in their shoes we'd probably do the same thing.
I hate that they've changed the views. Like the ones in Kittitas County. No more unobstructed views of the Stuart Range from the Thorp area. Now a bunch of white dinosaurs on the skyline. Have to pick our poison I guess.
And yes, they do require a fair amount of lubrication, but oil is not flowing out of them into streams. Or even the soil. I have another friend that is a network engineer on the ones there in Goldendale. I've had discussions about the maintenance required. This dude has no real reason to sugar coat it to me. He says they catch 99.9% of that oil and send it off to be recycled. And much of it ends up being...you guessed it. Used as lubricant again.
Are there accidents? I'm sure there have been. But to say it's just flowing out of them is not accurate. But good if you're phishing.
Private citizens using their private land for their economic benefit, yet some would stop them because reasons...I'm thinking of putting a boutique nuclear reactor out behind the garden, but permits are hard to get.
Downright ludicrous, there oughta be a law...
Plus anyone who gets 90 plus percent of of their power from Columbia River hydro projects shouldn't be able to complain about Salmon and Steelhead runs. In the interest of intellectual consistency and all...
Downright ludicrous, there oughta be a law...
Plus anyone who gets 90 plus percent of of their power from Columbia River hydro projects shouldn't be able to complain about Salmon and Steelhead runs. In the interest of intellectual consistency and all...
Last comment on 'filthy' - worked a EPA Superfund project in Silicon Valley in which we had to monitor the air 24/7 for 30 days. The environmental engineering company we hired was a global expert. When all the testing was done and the results summary was presented over 150 carcinogens were identified.
The carcinogen with the highest air concentration and considered by the engineering firm and medical experts to be the most dangerous because the size and starfish shape of the particulate was perfect for being lodged in the lungs? Diesel exhaust.
Want filthy, go stand behind an idling Cummins diesel and take a few deep breaths.
The carcinogen with the highest air concentration and considered by the engineering firm and medical experts to be the most dangerous because the size and starfish shape of the particulate was perfect for being lodged in the lungs? Diesel exhaust.
Want filthy, go stand behind an idling Cummins diesel and take a few deep breaths.
Rob Allen
Life of the Party
I can confirm that at least 83 of them are on my friends giant cattle and wheat ranch. Yep, 83!! She smiled and said "it sure makes ranching a little easier!" Haha! I bet it does. It obviously put them into a WAY higher tax bracket. The good news is they are good people and give considerable amounts of money to WSU for Agriculture. Do they like the way they look? Nope. But if any of us were in their shoes we'd probably do the same thing.
I hate that they've changed the views. Like the ones in Kittitas County. No more unobstructed views of the Stuart Range from the Thorp area. Now a bunch of white dinosaurs on the skyline. Have to pick our poison I guess.
And yes, they do require a fair amount of lubrication, but oil is not flowing out of them into streams. Or even the soil. I have another friend that is a network engineer on the ones there in Goldendale. I've had discussions about the maintenance required. This dude has no real reason to sugar coat it to me. He says they catch 99.9% of that oil and send it off to be recycled. And much of it ends up being...you guessed it. Used as lubricant again.
Are there accidents? I'm sure there have been. But to say it's just flowing out of them is not accurate. But good if you're phishing.
No... have your poison picked for you.