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To: DungeonMaster

Now you’re just being willfully silly to pretend you have a point. We all know nuclear power plants (just like every other power plant) have multiple power generating sections so they can do maintenance (including refuel) without shutting down.

It’s a sign of how completely useless wind power actually is that you have to pretend to be this dumb to make nuke plants seem to have the same problems as wind.


82 posted on 12/09/2009 9:21:58 AM PST by discostu (The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression)
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To: discostu
Now you’re just being willfully silly to pretend you have a point. We all know nuclear power plants (just like every other power plant) have multiple power generating sections so they can do maintenance (including refuel) without shutting down.

Actually that doesn't seem to be true of the one in Iowa. But it's only a 585 unit. So maybe you are thinking of putting a 1gw unit in every city. Every city of what size? What about excess production. How much does electricity cost when you have to build enough nukes to handle the highest peak but said nukes spend a lot of their time idle or at less than peak power?

83 posted on 12/09/2009 9:31:27 AM PST by DungeonMaster (camel, eye of a needle; rich man, heaven)
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