Power off in Redding CA

That particular reactor's CONTAINMENT building held. I believe its still holding to this day if they have not decommissioned and scrapped the thing while recovering the partially melted core. It is also a remembered first hand experience on television in Baltimore. They looped the #### thing day and night for 80 hours while we waited for it to blow. We had plans to flee if it did. They said it would be 10,000 years before the NE and Nova Scotia would be inhabitable again.

Maybe hype, maybe facts, maybe BS. I don't know anything anymore. At that time of the event there was NO internet, NO cell NO nothing. And #### few people were in a position to really know anything.

 

So it's a horseshoes and handgrenades situation? Hit or miss?

 

Pretty much. Anges was a far simpler problem. Railroads gone, Dam might go, power too. And so on. Easy peasy. Nothing that cannot be fixed in new employed workers over time.

 

Here is a new fire, within the last three hours of this post.

Underneath Power lines too.

Drew Tuma on Twitter

 

Word just received from loved and unloved ones deep inside the communist state. Power is on.

Standard over reaction.

 

The power was off for about twenty four hours in most areas.
Not exactly a major emergency if a person took a little time to prepare for it.
The outages had little or nothing to do with fire danger. PG&E was just flexing their muscles. They shut off the power as an object lesson to all the people. PG&E's answer to the cost of liability incurred in last years fires is to raise the user rates. People are angry.
We live in a rural area and we've had weather related outages lasting eight days. They're not uncommon where we are.
We have solar, a wood stove, a combination propane/wood cookstove, an on demand solar hot water heater, and a portable generator that will run our freezers.
Piss on PG&E.

 

My preference is a 1870's era Sterling Engine that works off a Temperature difference conveyed by 500 individual stranded bare copper lengths of about 400 feet and around 3 inches thick. Draws the temperature from the earth (Hot or cold, it matters not as long there is a difference. to a particular plate on the engine itself at the housing. Inside that plate is the other "Pole" with the temperature difference actively working on it in physics. It will develop power. Conveyed by a very superior transmission (Uni drive, no gearing and theoretically infinite next to your water heater in the laundry room and spins a generator to make power. Any excess (And there will be...) is sold to the Grid with a second meter cutting you a check in your favor. If you have enough land you can build a power house that holds ten Stirling engines and their associated mechanizes The excess electricity sold to your profit on your new power farm.

If every home and building runs off underground heat exchange copper lines deep enough they no longer care if there is a national power outage, tornados or ice storms. Whatever power from surviving units can support via community teaming up to get the power to those who aint got it.

 

Hey everyone, life has risks.
Try driving a truck.

 

I’m lovin your avatar, bro.

 

I’d be concerned about the nuclear power plants that are used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. All it takes is one slip up.