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Shame Boy posted:The nuclear power plant in south Florida has a website where they make a big deal of how all the heat they dump into the fragile ecosystem is actually Very Good for the local wildlife, here look at this adorable baby endangered crocodile, they live in the coolant water discharge sluice system because they like the warmth, do you want him to die huh? huh??lurry pond, look only at the adorable manatees. Thank you. yeah nah thermal pollution is real and it’s bad It’s just much less bad than the other kind of pollution. Like, killing birds is always bad, but blocking wind power development over it is counterproductive.
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At this point the main point of pretending hydrogen cars are just around the corner is to try and stem the tide of electric cars there are some potential niche uses though like city busses
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Release heat as steam bing bong nuclear seasteading now
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Platystemon posted:yeah nah thermal pollution is real and it’s bad Nah birds are a gently caress, kill en all 2012
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Arizona’s Palo Verde nuclear plant uses municipal wastewater for cooling, but even that is kind of expensive in the desert, so they’ve been looking at tapping a salty aquifer and using some of that brine.
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e nm this was afddressed
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Is there a reason potable water can't be part of the cooling loop? Just deliver slightly warmer water to residents?
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ShadowHawk posted:Is there a reason potable water can't be part of the cooling loop? Just deliver slightly warmer water to residents? You'd need a hell of a lot of it, moving at a constant predictable rate, and people would definitely complain about the NUCLEAR WASTE WATER or whatever even though it's not actually dangerous. Like if water usage in your city dips you gotta keep running the heat exchangers so what are you gonna do, dump the excess clean water?
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It's like how the water that comes out of wastewater treatment plants is clean enough that we could just put it back into the water purification plant, but no that's icky TOILET TO TAP or whatever so instead we have to inject it into the aquifer and then immediately suck it back out of the aquifer for no reason.
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Shame Boy posted:people would definitely complain about the NUCLEAR WASTE WATER or whatever even though it's not actually dangerous. Doesn't it create a small but undesirable risk that if a pipe leaks you get mildly radioactive drinking water?
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Shame Boy posted:It's like how the water that comes out of wastewater treatment plants is clean enough that we could just put it back into the water purification plant, but no that's icky TOILET TO TAP or whatever so instead we have to inject it into the aquifer and then immediately suck it back out of the aquifer for no reason. Ahahahaha that reminded me of ... Seattle I think it was? Two kids peed in the aquifer and the residents got their panties in such a twist that they emptied the entire thing. Which was several million litres. And upstream of the water treatment system. Well done, Freedumbland
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Chamale posted:Doesn't it create a small but undesirable risk that if a pipe leaks you get mildly radioactive drinking water? would still be less rad exposure than most americans get from inhaling coal plant pollution lmao
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Weatherman posted:Ahahahaha that reminded me of ... Seattle I think it was? Two kids peed in the aquifer and the residents got their panties in such a twist that they emptied the entire thing. Portland https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/17/304128931/one-mans-pee-pushes-portland-to-flush-38m-gallons-of-water
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just fuckin nuke me up
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Boil the oceans with nuclear power and turn them all into one enormous freshwater pond
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Irradiation posted:Portland https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/17/304128931/one-mans-pee-pushes-portland-to-flush-38m-gallons-of-water Cheers. Also looks like I was wrong: it was treated water that goes into the mains, not water yet to be treated. Still, a litre (max) of pee in 38 million
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Weatherman posted:Cheers. Also looks like I was wrong: it was treated water that goes into the mains, not water yet to be treated. Still, a litre (max) of pee in 38 million
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Oct 15, 2020 03:51
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Sell it by the gallon to 38 million german perverts, problem solved.
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ShadowHawk posted:It's an 8X homeopathic solution Equivalent to an 8x solution. It's not properly prepared by a Certified Homeopathic Practitioner so it's not an effective dose.
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Shame Boy posted:Sell it by the gallon to 38 million german perverts, problem solved. Get a gamer girl to take a bath in the reservoir ---> profit
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SpacePig posted:Equivalent to an 8x solution. It's not properly prepared by a Certified Homeopathic Practitioner so it's not an effective dose. Quackery!
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SpacePig posted:Equivalent to an 8x solution. It's not properly prepared by a Certified Homeopathic Practitioner so it's not an effective dose. otherwise it’s just sparkling whizz.
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gently caress my life into pieces
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Platystemon posted:otherwise it’s just sparkling whizz. Yeah it's gotta come from the Piss region of France too.
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Turns out we got STEMinists from Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace, all your favorite terrifying hell machine companies here to inspire the next generation! You go girls!! https://twitter.com/jkmgarofano/status/1283105647819661312
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https://twitter.com/jkmgarofano/status/1303141879635214337 The exciting part of the job is the part where you Create Value for your employer! Don't STEM careers sound great girls?
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DACK FAYDEN posted:this D&D alignment chart is weird Woops! All Lawful Evil!
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Water from a power plant cycling can become contaminated. I grew up near a big rear end coal plant that had a retaining lake for its water and people would fish out of it. DNR closed the lake because the water was so polluted people were getting sick.
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Peanut President posted:Water from a power plant cycling can become contaminated. I grew up near a big rear end coal plant that had a retaining lake for its water and people would fish out of it. DNR closed the lake because the water was so polluted people were getting sick. It's possible it came from the cooling system, but I bet it came from a nearby fly ash slurry lake or something like that since those are generally just like, out there, and can overtop or leak into adjacent bodies of water real easy. Sometimes they also catastrophically fail and that's fun for everyone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill   quote:The 1.1 billion US gallons (4,200,000 m3) of sludge were enough to fill 1,660 Olympic-size swimming pools,[28] and the volume released was about 100 times larger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill[2][29] and about 10 times greater than the volume released in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, the largest oil spill in history. Coal! Shame Boy has issued a correction as of 18:07 on Oct 15, 2020 |
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Weatherman posted:Cheers. Also looks like I was wrong: it was treated water that goes into the mains, not water yet to be treated. Still, a litre (max) of pee in 38 million best part is the reservoir isn’t even covered so birds can poo poo in it all day long unrelated, portland doesn’t fluoridate their water and it’s a very controversial topic for everyone
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Shame Boy posted:It's possible it came from the cooling system, but I bet it came from a nearby fly ash slurry lake or something like that since those are generally just like, out there, and can overtop or leak into adjacent bodies of water real easy. "it does have some heavy metals within it, but it's not toxic or anything" is one of my all-time favorite quotes
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at last, society recognizes my true gender identity
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Shame Boy posted:Turns out we got STEMinists from Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney and Collins Aerospace, all your favorite terrifying hell machine companies here to inspire the next generation! You go girls!! "Well, my best advice would be to destroy the voice inside you that says it's wrong to profit from the killing of others. ^^"
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i am harry posted:"Well, my best advice would be to destroy the voice inside you that says it's wrong to profit from the killing of others. ^^" Not THAT kind of disruption!
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T-man posted:The real solution is communism always has been
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