Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: The "Standards" Game Date: 16 Sep 2025 03:35:34 GMT Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <10a6nt3$1c65i$1@dont-email.me> <10a9qlq$25h61$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net iiYCHZQva6Z5n82N0bcYlgcpEFj5Vq+Hx3wxl84EGp3Dm9/IPY Cancel-Lock: sha1:2hA7f1/Lcm7fLubDvzEVlJBPiAc= sha256:fZD8wOVR9NrMb6SsLodvVVqmqroJHqZsirYulgSl9so= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74293 alt.comp.os.windows-11:24281 On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:50:17 -0400, Paul wrote: > The project needs a 3.4 Kilometer tunnel! That's a billion dollars worth > of tunneling right there. I did not see that in the plans. Clever. Oh, > well. Should have hired The Boring Company. Anybody but Bechtel the corporation behind Boston's legendary Big Dig. It only took twice as long and cost twice as much as anticipated. Where does the tunnel go? Seabrook Station in New Hampshire has 2 3 mile long tunnels going out into the ocean. When concerns were raised about the temperature rise from the exhaust tunnel the answer was 'The lobsters will love the nice warm water!'. Seabrook bankrupted Public Service of New Hampshire but at least it's still operating. Maine Yankee and Vermont Yankee were killed by cheap hydro from Quebec among other things. I wasn't enthused back in the '80s but not because of nuclear technology. I thought their estimated of projected demand were too high and the plants weren't economically feasible. New England's manufacturing was leaving and the population wasn't increasing enough to make up the difference with residential demand. No problem today -- just build an AI data center. Hopefully the SMRs work out.