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: 17 Sep 2025 01:33:48 GMT Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <10a6nt3$1c65i$1@dont-email.me> <10a9qlq$25h61$1@dont-email.me> <10ac80j$2nuve$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net a9GcFuR68e9AZU0qW4MZGgyTRLXl2yCDF+bChB2FzMOsijzapq Cancel-Lock: sha1:g2m4yoIreVgZn3gY62NRJAvsC3I= sha256:zdckEIGCAYW/y0JaTtmw1igePWzd5zfOTW9QWk11MuY= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74364 alt.comp.os.windows-11:24307 On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:52:43 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > How warm or hot will be the water inside the tunnel? The tunnel is very > large diameter, that's a lot of water. They could use it to warm houses > instead. I can't find a figure for the discharge water temperature. The intake water had to be less than 70 degrees which made the scheme feasible since the waters off New Hampshire never are warmer than 65 in the peak of summer. > Also, where does the intake water come from, another tunnel? Yes, there are two tunnels, an intake and a discharge 1 mile offshore. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6367683 That's only a summary. 850,000 gpm is a lot of water. At the time I went to an open house where the system was discussed in more detail but I'm not going to depend on 40+ year old memories. The plant was controversial to say the least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clamshell_Alliance The May Day '77 protest was the high point, where 1414 people were arrested. I liked Thomson but he may not have been thinking too clearly when he stuck the protesters in the National Guard armory and realized he had to buy a hell of a lot on McDonald's Happy Meals. Letting them starve wouldn't have been good PR and the protesters, while refusing bail, were too smart to call for a hunger strike. I miss the ocean but NH started to drift left and I bailed in '88.