For those interested, roughly 120 square miles of solar panels, plus a huge amount of batteries, would be needed to replace this plant with ‘sustainable’ generation.
Presumably the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear facility has made doubly sure its emergency diesel generators and fuel supply are located at some distance from the shore, in case any earthquake-generated tsunami floods the area forcing the reactor to stop generating power, but still needing power to circulate cooling water.
It’s easier and quicker to lay new power lines from the generator to the reactor than to replace the generators flooded by a tsunami.
Smart move. Way to go Japan!
The environmentalist movement has turned into a death cult. They literally want only one out of every 16 people living on earth now to be alive in some future utopia after murdering 93% of the population worldwide.
These freaks need to be brought to heel.
Windmills to provide all of American’s electricity needs would take a land area a bit larger than the state of Nevada. The windmills also would make that much land area uninhabitable.
Nuclear fission plants to generate the same amount of electricity could be fit in an area no larger than Dallas County, and the bulk of that area would still be habitable.
I’m sure they learned a lot from the Fukushima disaster.
For one thing, to make sure the backup generators are placed high enough to avoid flooding.
It’s ridiculous to abandon a technology because of an accident. You learn from the accident and make things better the next time. This is how flying has become the safest form of travel.
Way to go, Japan!
All that needs to be done is make sure the plant is above the highest tsunami wave height and as a backup have backup generators for one or the other 50hz and 60hz power distribution.
Make sure they paint a big red bullseye on it.