Posted on 06/26/2021 8:50:18 PM PDT by blam
From Wikipedia:
The plant was built entirely underground, and located about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) up the Connecticut River from Turners Falls Dam. A stretch of the Connecticut River, extending some 20 miles (32 km) north from this dam to the Vernon Dam, Vermont, serves as the station's lower reservoir. During periods of lower electrical power demand, the plant pumps water from this lower reservoir through the Northfield Mountain Tailrace Tunnel to a man-made upper reservoir. At times of high demand, water is released to flow downhill from this upper reservoir through a turbine generator, where it then collects in the lower reservoir to be stored until again pumped to the upper reservoir.
Northfield Mountain's upper reservoir covers 300 acres (120 ha) at 800 feet (240 m) above the river, with total storage of 5.6 billion US gallons (21 Gl) of water. Its underground powerhouse lies at 700 feet (210 m) below the surface and is accessible through a 2,500-foot (760 m)-long tunnel; it includes four large reversible turbines, each of which can pump 15,200 cubic feet (430 m3) of water per second and release 20,000 cubic feet (570 m3) of water per second to generate 1,143 megawatts (1,533,000 hp) of electricity. The turbines can ramp up in 10 minutes, and deliver full power for 8 hours
So basically, they use cheaper and more available energy at night to fill the reservoir, then during the day, when energy is more expensive and scarcer, they empty the reservoir through hydroelectric generators.
Back when Massachusetts was sane.
The villages outside of the cities in a lot of countries, have no electricity. That’s what the elite want for the whole world.
Where did you see that?"
There was a one hour special on Netflix about this whole nuclear effort by Gates. I thought it was pretty good. He spent something like $250 million on this effort.
No, the majority of us left before 2008. Those who were left stayed because they had either purchased really nice property during the downturn in the 90s, inherited it, or otherwise already paid it off and kept thinking maybe they could turn the state around with a RINO legislature. Then the property taxes increased to the point it was no longer worth owning the property mortgage-free. Now, it's becoming evident that's not going to turn around and they can cash out by selling their inherited 2 bedroom 1940s cottage to Blackrock for $2.5 million.
I left in 2004 because my neighborhood was getting more and more dangerous. My car got broken into in a locked garage, my next door neighbor had a junkie climb up the outside wall to look in the windows off her balcony, and I was starting to feel threatened just walking down to the coffee shop or the gym (IMO, one of the best features of my place was being able to walk everywhere). Someone made me an offer over the phone for my condo and I took it and fled. Besides, my family had already moved out, so I just followed them.
Good!
Here:
A Netflix Documentary on Bill Gates: Inside Bill's Brain
"The third segment discusses another incredible breakthrough that the Gates Foundation's money has made: the development of a radical new design for nuclear power reactors that dramatically eliminates the threat of a radioactive disaster. It also uses spent fuel that is piling up around America to generate electrical power."
You'll have an electric car and nowhere to plug it in to charge at $50 for 200 miles.
Yikes, I pay 7 cents.
Your $1K a month UBI will take care of it...
Now if we could only elect a communist dimocrat to governor, this would all be fixed. Maybe we should elect the current mayor of San Franhomofrisco. He/she/it/whatever it calls itself could fix all of it. Look what a wonderful job he/she/it has done in turning San Franhomofrisco into a third world nation.
The solution to that is use some of Biden’s “renewal” electricity. That will solve their problem. They just keep “renewing” it to the get the electricity they want.
About 60% efficient IIRC. Thermodynamics not your strong suit?
Don’t feel bad, it isn’t for most opining on this stuff, especially those on the Left.
That was compared to batteries. What does it cost to make batteries? The entire process including mining. How long do they last? Don’t forget that we are talking about an acre of batteries.
Hydro pumped storage is better than batteries, no doubt. It has been around a long time. But it’s a very, very low bar.
It won’t make solar and wind viable replacements for carbon fueled power plants.
Bingo! Easterners!
Small world, I was there also! As I recall, the Grateful Dead were at the eastern side of the music concourse in GG Park. I was within 20 feet of them. I brought their LP album and had all the band members sign the cover. I was very upset when I found out my sister gave the album away to a friend. It would be worth thousands today.
You're right, about how many young people came after that song. Haight Street and the park panhandle were easy going with free band concerts (Jefferson Airship etc.), and all that changed to crowded conditions in 1968 (and the bands doing paid concerts). So many people came to SF that were from outside California.
Vicious, lecturing morons living in moronic conditions of their making.
Oh well.
One can hope. You're in better shape than my wife. She has had PG&E stock for years; at one time it was $72 a share. After their problems, it dropped to $6 a share, and has slowly climbed to $9 a share. It will never climb back to the old high values.
I’ll keep hope alive 👍
I don’t think it’ll ever seen anything north of $20 again either.
Those were the days. Young and reckless as hell.
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