Posted on 05/07/2025 9:03:12 AM PDT by Pontiac
Maybe not.
The inertia for building nuclear power plants is building and Trump is a supporter.
“From my college days I remember learning that DC was not good at long distance transmission. Yet, Britain and Ireland are transmitting DC across the Channel.”
a couple of things about that claim make zero sense:
1. DC power was a dead-end back in the first days of the fight between DC and AC power because DC power plants essentially had to be built on every block due to distance limitations of transmitting DC power ... the power that lit the Chicago World’s Fair was AC power delivered from Niagara Falls ...
2. AC-to-DC conversion and then DC-to-AC conversion would be necessary for DC power to be injected into and then extracted form said DC link ... that would require MASSIVE motor-generators on each end of said DC link to do this. why not just transmit AC to start with?
I think you, me, Trump, and some very important advisors of his are simpatico on this issue.
I hope so. I see it as a travesty that we are not building more, modern, safe nuclear plants with new designs that are modular and can be run at the municipal power level.
Think of all the new jobs it would create in addition to the power.
Back in the late 70s I worked in the Nuclear industry. I also lived a mile or so away from a coal mine. Some local leftists got the mine workers union all fired up against nuclear and they even set up a propaganda table outside a local grocery store. I stopped and talked to some of the miners there and they didn’t know squat about nuclear energy. The lefties told them that nuclear energy would put them out of work. I told them that if the lefties managed to kill nuclear, coal would be their next target.
Sure enough, that mine is now long gone. The lefties don’t give a damn what your fuel source is. They are against anything that works.
Oopsie. There has to be a backup or standby for everything else to synchronize to, in order to bring them back online. That’s most likely a fossil fueled machine.
Sometimes the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. Especial if the Gates family is applying heavy duty Sun-Block.
I have a small list of the email addresses of email scammers that I use for just this purpose.
The head of National Union of Mineworkers, Arthur Scargill, was a full-blown Communist, who only used the mineworkers for his own personal goal of overthrowing the British government and imposing a Communist dictatorship.
Black Start Plants are most often Hydro-plants or Gas Turbine Plants.
They have the fewest auxiliary systems requiring power for start up.
Screw Britain. They made their own bed, and can sleep in it. They never learned any lessons from two World Wars, not even after we saved their asses twice. They’re getting what their hand calls for. The British Empire “where the sun never sets” now wants to dim the sun on its own people. They have shit weather as it is. Must be they want to kill more of their people than fix the problems they already have.
There are still many who think the “alternative sources” will fill the bill with our electrical needs & this is a good explanation as to why they will not. Some folks are just convinced that solar & wind do a good job & it’s hard to convince them otherwise.
You can just tune that out...a few ferrite rings will soon take care of it.
- a couple of things about that claim make zero sense:
1. DC power was a dead-end back in the first days of the fight between DC and AC power because DC power plants essentially had to be built on every block due to distance limitations of transmitting DC power ... the power that lit the Chicago World’s Fair was AC power delivered from Niagara Falls ...
2. AC-to-DC conversion and then DC-to-AC conversion would be necessary for DC power to be injected into and then extracted form said DC link ... that would require MASSIVE motor-generators on each end of said DC link to do this. why not just transmit AC to start with?-
Converting high power AC to DC and back from DC to AC is used with solid state Insular Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBT) or Thyristor switching elements not motors and generators.
Also, the bulk, long-haul power transmission is cheaper by HVDC vs HVAC including the cost of converters. You will see more long-haul bulk power by HVDC in the future.
On the other side HVDC transmission will not provide rotating inertia to the grid.
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