Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
Posted on 10/27/2024 10:08:39 PM PDT by ransomnote
Happy Thanksgiving to each of you. We have so much to be thankful for with our President Trump ready to make America Great. God bless each of you!
Thankful for all of you and grateful for
so many blessings. Take some time to give
thanks and say a prayer today.
Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord,
always giving thanks to God the Father for
everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Eph. 5:19-20
Like how he ignores her hateful questions and basically calls her a crumpy host.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone! We have so much to be thankful for this year! God is giving us a second chance, and I’m so grateful! And I’m especially thankful for this thread, which keeps me informed and hopeful!🦃🥧🥗🥐🥂🍁🍂🔥
She has become unbourboned by what has gin.
hahaha!!!!!!!
...and a Happy Thanksgiving to you, Miss Didi. See ya on the dance floor!
They’re also putting up a lot of $$$ towards the new small modular nuclear reactor which will be built in the Oak Ridge area. The concept shows promise. (though I think it’s dumb to be in on the ground floor, let someone else take the big financial hit).
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so, who is making these small modular reactors?
Nobody is making them - yet. As I understand it, there are two paths being studied, one of which is being done out west and might involve some investment from the likes of Gates and Google, and this other design that is being developed by TVA and possibly Ontario Hydro up in Canada.
I’ve kind of looked at it from the standpoint of how they’ll help in operating the power system and meeting the needs of the customers, but I have not looked deep into either design concept.
As was mentioned earlier, they can be made a lot smaller than the huge ones we see now in the industry. There are some economies of scale, but there’s also a case for smaller power generators placed in better positions on the grid.
We’re seeing a lot of problems involving, for example, the enormous amount of wind generation being built in OK, KS, NE, IA, MO, SD, and ND - the amount of transmission lines needed to get that power to where the customers are is a huge issue. There are entities that want to build from the wind farms to locations like Chicago, but they will pass through areas that aren’t benefitting from the line and thus are fighting the construction at every turn.
Realistically, putting the generating source closer to the customers makes a lot of sense in terms of logistics. You can’t really do that effectively with wind or solar. Also, making it a reliable source like Nuclear, gas, hydro, or coal (nobody likes coal any more) offsets the intermittent supply characteristics of wind and solar.
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