My guess would be that the initial earthquake would've caused both types of plants to suffer massive explosions, possibly causing more damage and injury than what's been reported so far from the nuclear plant. Then, when the tsunami hit, it would most likely cause contamination of local water sources from a coal plant. A gas-powered plant, in this instance, would probably be helped in that the water would quench any fires.
Note: I'm an electrical, computer, and systems engineer, not a power plant engineer, so my guesses are based on my knowledge of first and second year college physics. :P
Disaster Binder
(Sorry, couldn't resist throwing in a Jethro Tull reference)
Speaking of high oil prices, remember all those people who were accusing the White House of being in cahoots with Big Oil last time gas was $4 a gallon?
Why are they so silent now?
Anyway, as I mentioned earlier, any *new* nuclear plants would probably be built using pebble bed reactors. Pull the plug and the reaction shuts down.
No fuss, no muss.
currently oil prices drop, since the wallstreets guys attention is away from lybia.
Wed Mar 16 2011 12:19:59 am EDT EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored Subject: Re:
Speaking of high oil prices, remember all those people who were accusing the White House of being in cahoots with Big Oil last time gas was $4 a gallon?
Why are they so silent now?
I wish petrol was that cheap here
Wed Mar 16 2011 04:00:58 AM EDT from arabella @ Uncensored Subject: Re:
Wed Mar 16 2011 12:19:59 am EDT EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored Subject: Re:
Speaking of high oil prices, remember all those people who were accusing the White House of being in cahoots with Big Oil last time gas was $4 a gallon?
Why are they so silent now?I wish petrol was that cheap here
seconded. We're paying $7.50 at the pumps
sometimes I'm glad I don't have a car...
yea, not owning a car pulls a big moneysink out of the monthly equation.
Shame on you, Mr. Obama. No blood for oil!
The left *and* the right are outraged.
<< makes some popcorn >>
Fun.
Mon Mar 21 2011 12:23:22 PM EDT from Ragnar Danneskjold @ UncensoredRalph Nader is calling for Obama's impeachment because of the attack on Libya.
Fun.
"Only a fool starts a war on two fronts, only the geir to the throne of rools starts a war across the whole middle EasT"
- Londo Molari, Centari Ambassador (paraphrased)
Here's a thing one of my friends on face book posted:
"Considering that one missile on a British plane costs 700,000 to 1 m GBP and 40 have been fired so far ! the austerity measures are needed in the UK as we are "Skint" then i think that when the dictators are removed a bill should be given to the interim govt first, then they can rebuild ? any thoughts on this ? and no trendy bleeding hart stuff please"
My reply: Exactly what I would have been thinking had I not been thinking, "More military men demanding compensation for injuries received doing a job they knew carried a High risk of being shot at/down, bombed, or hurt in a variety of unsavory ways. Yes each and every one of our military people is doing a hard job in awful circumstances, and they are all some mother's sons and daughters, but it is what they signed up for. So yes, when we're billing the new govt. in Libya, or where ever we should includ a bill for the rehab, and therpy those guys will need too.
I would feel differently if we had a conscript military, but we don't. They all volunteer.
"The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
-- Senator Obama, December 20, 2007
Meanwhile, the vacationer-in-chief just had a little talk with some folks in Brazil [http://tinyurl.com/4oyb4o8] and told them that we will help them develop their offshore oil resources so that we can one day import their oil.
WTF?
Tue Mar 22 2011 09:12:24 AM EDT from wizard of aahz @ UncensoredBella - it's worse for the conscripts. They have no choice whatsoever.
Which is why I would feel diferently ;)
whew. so after allmost 60 years of conservative leader ship it Badenwuertemberg (next to bavaria..) a guy from green Party is going to become prime minister. Times are changing.
http://weaselzippers.us/2011/03/28/donald-trump-has-a-birth-certificate/#more-16077
Donald Trump is proudly displaying his birth certificate. And with his kind of access to the media it's difficult for them to dismiss him as part of the lunatic fringe.
I've never voted Republican in my entire life but if The Donald is on the ticket I'll proudly pull that lever. He's just the kind of America-first, cut-through-the-bullshit kind of leader we desperately need right now.