[ExI] Awesome disaster

[Michael DeVault]

You raise a good point, Kelly. 

My grandfather was head of energy management for Walmart and oversaw development of their centralized management system. Given that Walmart is pretty much the largest consumer of Yes, it is no wonder the power companies kept tabs on Walmart. Big Daddy even appeared on the cover of a trade magazine or two. 

One of the frequent refrains the power companies stressed was that, by 2020, the power grid would be unable to support the demand placed, unless the nation began moving rapidly toward nuclear power. The companies even tried to pressure the NRC to follow the French model. "You want to build a station? Thank you for your permitting fee. Here are your plans and the list of approved sites for construction. Next?" 

We see how that went. 

md



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> On Nov 4, 2013, at 6:52 PM, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I only recently became aware of this, some you might have known about
>> it for years.
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sayano%E2%80%93Shushenskaya_power_station_accident#!
>> 
>> Wow.  A 900 ton spinning generator rotor flying out of the floor.
> 
> This is the first time I've heard of this as well. That's quite a mess they made there.
> 
> My question is, If this were a nuclear power plant, do you think this would be the first time you would have heard about it? 70 people killed makes hydroelectric more dangerous than nuclear power, wouldn't you think? Why aren't people down picketing Hoover Dam to make them stop producing power in such a dangerous way?
> 
> -Kelly
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