With Miss Kitty’s departure, Abner is suffering remorse for having been the last one to be lathered up by Miss Kitty. Abner whines while Lum tolerates as much as he can handle.
Edgewood — Pine Ridge Politics, Episode XXXIV
Daily Archives: October 25, 2009
Want Power You can Generate In Your Pocket
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by Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009)
Quote Freely From The Article – Leave The Pseudonym Alone
Pocket power generation may be a stretch, but Toshiba and at least two other Japanese companies are working separately to perfect and market small nuclear generating facilities. Toshiba has started marketing their unit, but was unsuccessful in their first attempt in the Yukon River watershed in Alaska due to their inability to sell the idea to Native Alaskans.
Toshiba’s plant, generates 10,000 kilowatts of electricity a day, while the other two companies (Mitsubishi and Hitachi) tout production of up to 350,000 kilowatts and up to 600,000 kilowatts, respectively.
I would bet that it will be years before the first compact nuclear generating plant is installed in the United States. Here’s the story as posted on Breitbart TV.
Here’s a video that is supposed to represent some of the opposition in Alaska.
According to Wikipedia, Watts Bar Nuclear Generating Facility was the last nuclear generating facility to go online in the United States in 1996.
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