This story was circulating the internet way back in 2004, or maybe as far back as 1999. Back when everybody was on 56k dial-up modems and a "Facebook" was just a regular book with directory listing of names and headshots. This story was so disturbing and so shocking that nobody believed it at the time. It was the Robert Lindsay " Bear Hunter: Two Bigfoots Shot and DNA Samples Taken " story of the time. And like Robert's Bear Hunter story , this witness didn't have a name. The only thing known about the witness is that this person was a government employee, anonymous of course. The author of the story was a science teacher named Thom Powell who believe it really happened and that the whole story was an elaborate cover-up. Powell said the anonymous government employee alerted the BFRO about a 7.5 feet long/tall burn victim with "multiple burns on hands, feet, legs and body; some 2nd and 3rd degree burns". Sadly, there was no DNA samples taken from
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ReplyDeleteThis 'Solar Island' is rated at 70MW. Typical reactor at a nuclear power plant is 1,000MW. Generous capacity factor for photovoltaic solar is about 20%, and nuclear is typically 90% or more.
DeleteSo not only do you need to build 15 of these 70MW islands to match the rated capacity, you then need to build about 50 more to account for the difference in capacity factor and actually generate equal amounts of power. That also doesn't take into account the need for a facility to store solar power from daytime hours to use overnight, morning, evening, and during cloudy weather, plus build even more solar islands to generate enough power to make up for what is lost in the efficiency of the storage.
Solar power is great, and I'm all for seeing it become more widespread, but I can't tolerate poorly written articles that claim it is a replacement for grid scale nuclear.
I'm actually kind of interested in the concept of shading reservoirs with solar panels, since some water utilities are already using floating plastic balls to prevent the formation of bromate, repeal aquatic birds, and cut down on the growth of algae. Seems like floating solar arrays could supplement that and make use of otherwise untapped sun-exposed surface area.
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DeleteWhile I don't disagree with you, you haven't factored in any sort of cost. Aren't nuclear plants wildly expensive to both build and maintain? And might a solar island (or a lot of them) be on the order of several magnitudes cheaper? Also I imagine the upkeep and maintenance required for these solar islands is negligible compared to nuclear power plants - I would love to read more about that.
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