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Did you know an aircraft carrier can power a city? Why don't they use them in texas?
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:21 pm
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Don't see y we can't use our nuclear powered carriers to provide electricity in emergency
Don't see y we can't use our nuclear powered carriers to provide electricity in emergency
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Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:22 pm to BobbyB965
I mean just plug it into the surge protector. Good to go.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:22 pm to BobbyB965
They don’t have a plug long enough from the ocean.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:23 pm to BobbyB965
Because they are nuke powered, and hippies don't like the cleanest form of energy known to man.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:24 pm to BobbyB965
Sail it up the Trinity to Dallas!
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:24 pm to dragginass
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hippies don't like the cleanest form of energy known to man.
Hippies are why we can't have anything nice.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:25 pm to BobbyB965
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Did you know an aircraft carrier can power a city? Why don't they use them in texas?
Yeah, they don't really use aircraft carriers for that sort of thing.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:26 pm to BobbyB965
Former navy nuclear operator.
1) A lot of the power is used to power the plant itself.
2) You need enough cabling and tie ins to make it work. Shore to ship power can only handle the minimum load to run the ship with the reactors shut down. Thus, you can’t export a 100% reactor power or remotely close (closer to 1%....maybe).
3) Raw MW goes mostly to steam production for the engines and catapults. So full reactor power can’t go toward electricity anyway. Without piping up extra turbines somehow.
1) A lot of the power is used to power the plant itself.
2) You need enough cabling and tie ins to make it work. Shore to ship power can only handle the minimum load to run the ship with the reactors shut down. Thus, you can’t export a 100% reactor power or remotely close (closer to 1%....maybe).
3) Raw MW goes mostly to steam production for the engines and catapults. So full reactor power can’t go toward electricity anyway. Without piping up extra turbines somehow.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:26 pm to BobbyB965
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Did you know an aircraft carrier can power a city? Why don't they use them in texas?
Why not just build a reactor on land that permanently powers the city?
Oh wait. Progressives hate nuclear power despite it being clean and cheap. And they have subsequently regulated it to the point where it's just not feasible anymore.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:30 pm to dragginass
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Because they are nuke powered, and hippies don't like the cleanest form of energy known to man.
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Lazard pegs the cost of building nuclear capacity in the United States at $5.4 million to $8.4 million per megawatt. Adding operating, maintenance, and fuel costs yields an average lifetime cost of $92 to $132 for every megawatt-hour generated.
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Power from new natural-gas-fired plants is also far cheaper than nuclear at $61 to $87 per megawatt-hour
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:30 pm to BobbyB965
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Don't see y we can't use our nuclear powered carriers to provide electricity in emergency
Yes!! Get a UPS strip and let folks plug in.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:31 pm to goofball
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Why not just build a reactor on land that permanently powers the city?
Oh wait. Progressives hate nuclear power despite it being clean and cheap. And they have subsequently regulated it to the point where it's just not feasible anymore.
Pretty amazing too, that people are willing to suffer through shite like what's going on in Texas rather than address this from a logical standpoint.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:32 pm to BRIllini07
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aw MW goes mostly to steam production for the engines and catapults.
frick YES, let's catapult some shite!
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:32 pm to Zappas Stache
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Lazard pegs the cost of building nuclear capacity in the United States at $5.4 million to $8.4 million per megawatt
Gee, and I wonder why that is.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:33 pm to Zappas Stache
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Lazard pegs the cost of building nuclear capacity in the United States at $5.4 million to $8.4 million per megawatt. Adding operating, maintenance, and fuel costs yields an average lifetime cost of $92 to $132 for every megawatt-hour generated.
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Power from new natural-gas-fired plants is also far cheaper than nuclear at $61 to $87 per megawatt-hour
How does that compare to wind and solar?
Don't care about coal because we all know that's on the way out.
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:34 pm to notiger1997
I was on a submarine when we gave a tour to some local representatives in California during some brownouts. They asked the same question - but it’s even more ridiculous to ask from a sub (we could maybe power a small block in reverse? And that’s after you reverse/re-engineer all the interlocks preventing current back flow through the power grid).
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:38 pm to BobbyB965
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Why don't they use them in texas
$$$$
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:45 pm to HeadSlash
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Hippies are why we can't have anything nice.
they nag about everything
Posted on 2/17/21 at 3:46 pm to BRIllini07
quote:4) There ain't no aircraft carriers sitting inland Tejas just doing nothing.
Former navy nuclear operator.
1) A lot of the power is used to power the plant itself.
2) You need enough cabling and tie ins to make it work. Shore to ship power can only handle the minimum load to run the ship with the reactors shut down. Thus, you can’t export a 100% reactor power or remotely close (closer to 1%....maybe).
3) Raw MW goes mostly to steam production for the engines and catapults. So full reactor power can’t go toward electricity anyway. Without piping up extra turbines somehow.
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