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Russia To Ring The Arctic With Floating Nuclear Power Stations
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05/03/09
I'll bet the Giz staffs masturbates while watching "An Inconvenient Truth".
The Arctic ice is not melting, polar bears are not drowning.
And Al Gore is not God.
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Say you have a gigawatt power plant. If it is just 10% efficient, and most plants are at least 40%, then it emits 240 gigawatt hours per day of heat. That's only equal to the amount of heat from 10 square miles of daily sunlight at the earth's surface. The ocean currents and underwater vents are thousands of times more significant when looking at heat production.
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Chernobyl was suffering from inadequate funding. Much basic maintenance had never been performed. It had only a skeleton crew, nearly all of whom were untrained workers from the local coal mine. The only manager with nuclear plant experience had been a worker installing small reactors on board Soviet submarines. Some genius decided to run a risky test of a type that no experienced nuclear engineer would ever gamble on. The test was to shut down the water pumps, which must run constantly in that type of reactor; and then find out whether the turbines, spinning on their momentum alone, had enough energy to restart and run the pumps during the forty-second delay before the backup diesel generators would kick in. The test was so risky that one faction within the plant deliberately disconnected some backup systems, trying to make the test too dangerous to attempt. The test was run anyway. It didn't work, the pumps couldn't keep up, the graphite core caught fire, the coal miners couldn't find any shovels so they didn't know what to do, and the reactor exploded.