Coping With Record Heat and Humidity

[Mr Lars]

67 million may experience blackouts because the largest US power grid escalated emergency actions. $2,000 per megawatt hour this ‌week compared to the normal $40 per MWh. I wonder if that price gets passed along to the consumer.

Oh yeah. We are ready to eliminate fossil fuels. We can build more housing. Just won't be able to heat or cool them.

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And yet, these same people want to bog down the grid with EV’s? Someone please explain.

 

[TheBar]

I know they take a lot crap world wide but the French seem to have nuclear power down pretty well. Since the mid '70's France has produced approximately 67% of the country’s total electricity requirements of about 570 TWh/Yr, making it the leading source of electricity in the nation. It's clean, quiet, and scalable. There's a stigma in the US about nuclear energy and some points are well founded but the French have had 2 serious accidents since 1969 and neither resulted in a death or radiation exposure. IMHO It's about time the US start reconsidering wide scale nuclear power deployment. Right now it's about only 20% of our total production and our energy needs are rising every year. Where's a Mr. Fusion when you need one??

Now that I've kicked the hornets nest I'll sit back and observe....

OK, just gotta say something. Nuclear is all well and good but does anyone want a reactor next door to their house? Would your property values go up?

At least once per year since 1993 I have driven past Russellville AR on i40. There have been a few years the tree leaves are brown for a mile east and west of the reactor. Green everywhere else. Anyone else noticed this?

"Regulatory limits" of accidental releases of radiation do happen. What worries me is how many times per year are "regulatory limits" allowed? Once? Twelve?

My wife's grandfather from Ft Smith loved to fish in Lake Dardanelle. The water is used to cool the reactor.

One year when we visited he had just returned from fishing there and was cleaning his fish. One had 2 heads. This is called bicephaly and is a rare condition. He said he liked those because they had more meat on them and Lake Dardanelle had lots of them. And all the fish tend to be bigger there. We decided not to eat dinner with them.

 

[Chef Duane]

They don't put coal plants, acres of solar panels, oil refineries, and gigantic wind farms, next to your house. What makes you think a nuclear plant would be next to your house unless you moved right next to where it was already built? Most that I've seen (San Onofre, Diablo Canyon, and Rancho Seco) were out in the boonies. Although SO was on the coast and is now decommissioned. And again, the French have perfected it and have operated very safely for decades. Although the French do have those funny accents ...maybe it's the radiation.

 

[TheBar]

They don't put coal plants, acres of solar panels, oil refineries, and gigantic wind farms, next to your house. What makes you think a nuclear plant would be next to your house unless you moved right next to where it was already built? Most that I've seen (San Onofre, Diablo Canyon, and Rancho Seco) were out in the boonies. Although SO was on the coast and is now decommissioned. And again, the French have perfected it and have operated very safely for decades. Although the French do have those funny accents ...maybe it's the radiation.

Maybe not within 100 feet no. 1 mile is way way too close for most people. See post #37. This is a satellite view. It is surrounded by houses.

Here is a map of 3 mile island.

 

[Chef Duane]

LOL!! Some people buy a house at the end of an airport runway then complain about the noise also. Nuclear is viable if we can get past some of the minor obstacles. Most of them are sociological and not engineering issues.

 

[UTTransplant]

LOL!! Some people buy a house at the end of an airport runway then complain about the noise also. Nuclear is viable if we can get past some of the minor obstacles. Most of them are sociological and not engineering issues.

I don’t think spent nuclear waste disposal is a sociological issue. That stuff will be dangerous for tens of thousands of years. Where are you planning on putting it? If it has to be transported, do you want that train going through your town?

 

[Chef Duane]

We should ask the French what they do with theirs. As long as the train was safe, I wouldn't have a problem with it. There are many trains with hazardous materials that go through towns all across America. I would think that trains with nuclear waste would be built to contain any waste should an accident occur.

EDIT/ADD: Never mind. I checked;
France manages its nuclear waste primarily through a treatment and recycling strategy. The country plans to continue this approach beyond 2040, focusing on extending the life of existing recycling plants and developing new facilities for processing used nuclear fuel world-nuclear-news.org. Approximately 90% of radioactive waste has a long-term disposal solution available in surface facilities, which helps reduce its volume and toxicity. - WNN

France sets out long-term nuclear recycling plans

Minister for the Economy, Finance, Industrial and Digital Sovereignty Bruno Le Maire announced the decision to continue with France's treatment-recycling strategy for used nuclear fuel beyond 2040, with plans to extend the life of existing recycling plants and to launch studies for a new MOX...

www.world-nuclear-news.org

 

[Tulecreeper]

S Arizona forecast for the week:

 

[Tulecreeper]

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[Tulecreeper]

I found out an interesting twist on this.

I have some kidney issues and my doc said to drink lots of water to help with this.

I work out daily and I found if I fill my water jug with tepid or even a bit warm water I can drink almost double what I was drinking when I took iced cold water.

That's because the cold water tricks your body into thinking it has had enough too soon.

 

[Tulecreeper]

those Arizona numbers make our 103* here in DFW sound down right tolerable.

My forecast:

 

[Tulecreeper]

Took a tour of Central America and saw similar wiring in several of those countries.

Couldn't believe my eyes but it was true.

It's the same in many Asian countries. The Philippines:

 

[Adventurous Traveler]

Last week, during one of the hottest days of the year, "only" 88 degrees in WNY State, but the humidity was over 80%, I decided to re-wire my garage speakers, and install new, well, actually sitting in my basement for 10 years, outdoor patio speakers. My T-shirt was so soaked with sweat, it was dripping like I ran under a sprinkler.

But, Hey, It's Summer! My memory is too short to remember the 6 months of winter we experience in this neck of the woods, so I'll take it. Of course, that is dependent on the house AC working!

 

[jymbee]

... sitting in my basement for 10 years

Ah, welcome to my world.. One of these days...

 

[LarsMac]

Well, the heat hasn't been terrible out here, low 90s and fairly dry, until the evening when cool air blows over from the mountains, gathers up a few tons of moisture and dumps a Gullywasher across the prairie.
Unfortunately, back along the Front Range, they are praying for Rain to help with all the fires.
Hopefully, THIS water will run downstream to help the fires in Nebraska and Kansas.