[XCSSA] Man Made Global Warming Consensus A Farce?

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:54 PM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio  
wrote:

> Well, not really. Wind power is unreliable, it can't meet the  
> spikes in demand that exist as people use electricity. The only  
> plants that can come online quick enough to supply those spikes are  
> natural gas plants. Those aren't terribly efficient. If we really  
> wanted to provide a substantial amount of cheap power, we'd build  
> nuclear plants. Nuclear plants are safe, terribly efficient, and  
> produce huge amounts of power.

Micro-nukes could be a really good thing... small, sealed,  
maintenance-free power plants located near the consumers of power.  
Can you imagine running a large data center off of one of those --  
completely off the grid? It's the ultimate UPS. (Want redundancy? Get  
two of them and sell the power from the second when both are  
running.) The only problem in San Antonio would be that they are  
normally buried in a 30 foot deep hole, and much of the city has  
limestone just a foot or two down, which is why there are so many  
quarries. However, the plants themselves cost enough that digging  
that big of a hole in the rock might be only a minor expense.