<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Feb 2021, at 12:25 pm, Richard Bonomo TDS personal <<a href="mailto:bonomo@tds.net" class="">bonomo@tds.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Clearly, Texas needs new nuclear power plants!<br class=""><br class="">During the Blizzard of 1978, coal barges were frozen in the Ohio River. Ohio (and the eastern grid in general) managed to keep things<br class="">going because places like Wisconsin had enough nuclear power plants in those days (no longer, though) to take up the slack from the coal-fired<br class="">electrical generation plants there were idled or operating at reduced power output because it was not possible to get coal to them for<br class="">some weeks.<br class=""><br class="">Rich<br class=""><br class="">----- Original Message -----<br class="">From: "Dave Horsfall" <<a href="mailto:dave@horsfall.org" class="">dave@horsfall.org</a>><br class="">To: "macports-users" <<a href="mailto:macports-users@lists.macports.org" class="">macports-users@lists.macports.org</a>><br class="">Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 10:00:50 PM<br class="">Subject: Re: Build servers going offline due to inclement weather<br class=""><br class="">[ Power cuts in Texas ]<br class=""><br class="">Amazing what you can learn here :-) Seriously, I really feel for you <br class="">guys; I've seen the stuff on TV, and, well...<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">Rich while macports servers are in a chaotic state it's fun to play completely OT.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The single (engineering, real) problem with nuclear power is that it makes a mess that lasts millions of years. The consequence of this is it turns out to be a very expensive way to go.</div><div class="">(The 100 year.cost of the, now abandonedish Yucca Mountain repository (politics) was estimated at $100 billion)</div><br class=""><div class="">"Earth scientist discovered how to turn them (aliens) into disgusting lumps of jelly ..."</div><div class="">Even if the touted thorium reactors can render waste short lived the question is "who pays"</div><div class="">again making the nuclear option very expensive.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This shows a bad idea happening <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/05/27/fears-grow-that-nuclear-coffin-is-leaking-waste-into-the-pacific/?sh=4eefc1537073" class="">https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/05/27/fears-grow-that-nuclear-coffin-is-leaking-waste-into-the-pacific/?sh=4eefc1537073</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So we need a solution, not condemnation of those who try (ie Germany)</div><div class="">james</div></div></body></html>