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Originally Posted by RidgeRunner
You got my point then?
My home is powered by Natural Gas and/or Coal BTW.
No Nuke Power Gen Stations for Florida anymore. They are doing the phase out thing... Where it cost a gagillion dollars to maintain the old plant even though it ain't making power anymore. Lookup- Crystal River Nuclear Power Plant. What a debacle.
Three Squid, there will be another with twins, one day..
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Not so much your point as just a
friendly jab at the thought of anything being crazy. My point was that almost everything we use, every day, at one time or another was thought to be crazy. Automobiles to replace horses? Crazy!! People flying? Crazy talk I say!!! Light from electricity and not Kerosene? Put that man in an asylum!!! People walking on the moon.... and us watching it live on something called TV as it happened??? Bah!!! Pipe Dreams!!
Everything IS possible if given enough time to figure it out and perfect it. I firmly believe that we will have a cure for cancer one day. We will walk on Mars. We will have intelligent, self thinking robots ... well, you get my drift. Nothing is really crazy... some things are, however, impractical from an efficiency standpoint. Twins on a V20 might fall into that category.
As to nuclear power, since I was Facilities Manager for one of the largest Power and Light producers in New Jersey I might have to disagree with you on that point. Look up the Forked River Nuclear power plant. It's the second oldest plant in the United States, is still running, is still producing cheap power safely and economically. I know, first hand, that nuclear power is safe and reliable. I also know that accidents can, and do happen. You only have to look at Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island or Fukushima Daiichi to see that. Of those mentioned, one (Chernobyl) was the result of a man made disaster and was the most damaging in terms of loss of life and property. One (3 mile Island) was due to a failure of equipment, and one (Fukushima) was the result of a natural disaster (a tsunami). So yes, accidents can and do happen, for a variety of reasons. But overall, nuclear power is safe, reliable and economical. For instance, France gets over half of all it's electric power from nuclear power stations, and has done so for decades, with zero accidents. Not crazy at all.
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1987 V20 w/1987 150HP Yamaha on a Shoreland'r Trailer
1978 16.5 Airslot w/1996 120HP Force on a Four Winns trailer
1996 V21 w/1993 200HP Mercury on a Shoreline Trailer
All towed by a 5.7L Hemi Durango.
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