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- From: wcarroll@encore.com (William Carroll)
- Subject: Re: Nuclear Power and Climate Change
- Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:34:59 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec30.195749.11721@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1992Dec31.164918.22167@vexcel.com> <51730@seismo.CSS.GOV>
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- stead@skadi.CSS.GOV (Richard Stead) writes:
- >dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
- >> constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino) writes:
- >>>I couldn't see solar and wind supporting a country of 10-20 million or more,
- >>>and I wouldn't want to be in Bangladesh when a typhoon carries off the
- >>>country's entire capacity of solar panels.
- >>
- >> I woudln't want to be in Bangladesh when a typhoon carries off a
- >> containment structure.
-
- >No comparison. Containment structures are designed to withstand the strongest
- >tornadoes - a mere typhoon would simply give the plant a nice bath.
- > Just
- >look at some of the stuff our last big hurricane did in Florida. That's
- >exactly what a typhoon does.
-
- You mean, like knocking the Turkey Point nuclear plant offline for several
- weeks? That's one hell of a bath!
-
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- William R. Carroll (Encore Computer, Ft. Lauderdale FL) wcarroll@encore.com
-
- "We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form
- up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that
- we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method
- it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion,
- inefficiency, and demoralization." -Petronius Arbiter, 210 BC
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