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FBaggins

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29. Please provide this "consensus" you speak of.
Tue May 1, 2012, 04:10 PM
May 2012

Nobody has said that the spent fuel pools will need power for "100s of years".

Why is it that you are so snitty about a few details?

"Details" like the difference between right and wrong? Oh, I don't know... maybe because they're important? Because some ignorant passer-by might drop in and actually believe that spent fuel explodes in air? Or that the spent fuel pools at Fukushima exploded? Or that one or more cores exploded and ejected parts of the core (as in Chernobyl)?

Oh, hospitals, are not prone to blow up when the power drops.

Ah... but that's not the only difference. If power is lost at a hospital, people actually die. Unlike the radiation from Fukushima that has yet to kill anyone.

But remember Katrina and the hospitals there where people died after the generators dropped? Solar could have saved that situation from being so bad.

You're seriously going to pebble that bs? You think solar panels on the roof would have survived at CAT5 hurricane and actually worked in severe overcast for days (plus those perky nights)? That flooded electrical systems work if their power comes from the sun rather than a diesel?

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Yep RobertEarl May 2012 #1
Big solar has won? FBaggins May 2012 #2
I hear you RobertEarl May 2012 #3
All the billions trying to kill it? FBaggins May 2012 #4
Every rooftop is "few"?? RobertEarl May 2012 #6
Lol. FBaggins May 2012 #8
Image in this RobertEarl May 2012 #9
Lovely imagination you have. FBaggins May 2012 #10
You have no imagination? RobertEarl May 2012 #11
You're kidding, right? FBaggins May 2012 #12
Geeez RobertEarl May 2012 #13
Lol... try a little reading comprehension. FBaggins May 2012 #14
damn RobertEarl May 2012 #15
You think solar power systems are immune to solar storms? NickB79 May 2012 #16
Were you under the impression that the grid becomes safe... FBaggins May 2012 #17
Here's ya some internet RobertEarl May 2012 #18
Thanks for proving my point. FBaggins May 2012 #19
heh RobertEarl May 2012 #20
Can you give a few examples? FBaggins May 2012 #21
This says nothing about using solar to run back-up generators at NPP's NickB79 May 2012 #22
I know that RobertEarl May 2012 #23
Of course a solar array would work kristopher May 2012 #24
Then why don't you take a shot at the question? FBaggins May 2012 #25
Baggins, baggins, baggins RobertEarl May 2012 #27
Please provide this "consensus" you speak of. FBaggins May 2012 #29
Whoa, Dude RobertEarl May 2012 #30
Lol... what a shocker. FBaggins May 2012 #32
Louisiana Solar Rebates and Incentives kristopher May 2012 #33
Sorry... you're really going to run with that? FBaggins May 2012 #34
I think you and Fbaggins are talking past each other here NickB79 May 2012 #35
There was significant press coverage that all the wind and most of the solar survived Fukushima. kristopher May 2012 #36
You and your constant stream of red herrings become very tiresome kristopher May 2012 #28
I think he's losing it, Kris RobertEarl May 2012 #31
yep RobertEarl May 2012 #26
Baggins is in denial... kristopher May 2012 #5
He is in 'somewhere' RobertEarl May 2012 #7
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