Battery based electric vehicles of today and tomorrow.

[MossRoad]

Westinghouse Electric Company does nuclear power plant stuff.

Westinghouse Electronics sells crappy consumer tv's. I know this because I tried to deal with warranty issues on a Westinghouse TV for my mother in-law. Throw it away.

There's a whole bunch of other Westinghouse companies.

Westinghouse - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Hay Dude]

The father of a guy I went to HS with supervised the closing of the Westinghouse factory my grandfather worked at. I remember fun times there at the company family dinners they would put on for employees families.

 

[MossRoad]

The father of a guy I went to HS with supervised the closing of the Westinghouse factory my grandfather worked at. I remember fun times there at the company family dinners they would put on for employees families.

I bet that was something. I have relatives that worked for GE in Cincinnati when it was still very family oriented. They had a pretty large park and golf course just for employees, as I recall. We had family reunions there annually for decades.

 

[Torvy]

Don't get confused with appliance manufacturers, they swap nameplates more than tractors.

 

[Grumpycat]

Really?
Surprising, I thought they were just some legacy name the Chinese paste on Christmas wall projectors and LED flashlights, but they still build nuclear power plants.
if you say so!

Westinghouse | Shaping Tomorrow's Energy | Westinghouse Nuclear

Westinghouse Electric Company is the world’s leading nuclear company, delivering safe, innovative technology and shaping the future of carbon-free energy solutions.

www.westinghousenuclear.com

 

[Grumpycat]

Westinghouse Electric Company does nuclear power plant stuff.

Westinghouse Electronics sells crappy consumer tv's. I know this because I tried to deal with warranty issues on a Westinghouse TV for my mother in-law. Throw it away.

There's a whole bunch of other Westinghouse companies.

Westinghouse - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Just as Husqvarna is at least 3 unrelated companies using the same name and logo.

And the once premier Bell Helmets logo is now on junk on the bicycle aisle at Walmart.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

Rail is undependable and slow. Sawmills have tried sending wood that way and gotten burned; once it's on a RR car you lose control over it. Picture loading logs onto a car in June destined for a veneer mill, only to have it unhooked and left on an obscure siding for whatever reason. By the time it gets where it's going two months later your 1/4 million dollars worth of wood has spoiled and become firewood.

Yes, 19th century technology, except worse. What do you expect out of a bunch of bean counters only interested in milking rail for every nickel? Our rail system is one of the biggest failures of capitalism.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

No kiddin. Cleaner than decades ago? Yes. But clean? No.

It's not bad out of the stack. They have cleaned up most of the acid rain, but the ash is a horrible problem; radioactive and poisonous.

 

[Frankenkubota]

When Chrysler went out of business, nobody noticed.

That's funny, i didn't know they were out of business.

The 2 best things about my hillbillies 24/7/365 free tv channel is......within minutes of turning it on, granny is screaming for her gun or her jug and.....especially in the older episodes, miss jane drives the coolest mopar ragtops, different almost every time. 64 plymouth yesterday......red!

Even though we were raised Pontiac people, i've always loved mid 60s mopars

 

[Hay Dude]

Each year, more and more coal fired power plants in the US are being decommissioned or converted to natural gas. For coal, the handwriting is on the wall.

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I think we’re beginning to see you have issues with coal.

 

[MossRoad]

It's not bad out of the stack. They have cleaned up most of the acid rain, but the ash is a horrible problem; radioactive and poisonous.

Sounds clean to me.

 

[Citydude]

This should shed some light on coal ash from the EPA.

Radioactive Wastes From Coal-fired Power Plants | US EPA

Like all rocks, coal contains small amounts of radioactive elements that are found naturally in the environment. Generally, wastes from coal-fired power plants are only slightly more radioactive than the average soil in the United States.

www.epa.gov

 

[cqaigy2]

Sure coal is fine. If you don't live near the extraction area, and you don't live next to rail tracks where it's being shipped and immediately down wind from the power plant. But those places are where poor people live so.....


I vote for Nukes.

 

[Torvy]

I grew up 10 miles from a coal fired plant built in 1973-74. 100 miles from anything that would be considered a city. I toured the plant on field trips and never has there been an issue with smell or ash. The 'smoke' most people think they see is steam...that's water vapor for those of you in Rio Linda.

No reason we cannot keep using the coal and resume development on nukes at the same time.

 

[Hay Dude]

Sure coal is fine. If you don't live near the extraction area, and you don't live next to rail tracks where it's being shipped and immediately down wind from the power plant. But those places are where poor people live so.....


I vote for Nukes.

Nonsense.
I live near tracks where even more dangerous liquified petroleum gas is shipped and it’s wealthy as heck where I live. I can barely afford to live here and 50 tanker cars roll by multiple times a day. They roll right past Biden’s house down the road from me, too.

We had a derailment months ago right next to this mansion. Luckily nothing leaked (that we know of). One of the main family members of the DuPont Chemical company lives there.
Don’t look like no slum to me lol

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sure coal is fine. If you don't live near the extraction area, and you don't live next to rail tracks where it's being shipped and immediately down wind from the power plant. But those places are where poor people live so.....


I vote for Nukes.

Wow, just found out I grew up in one of the worse places in the US.
Wouldn’t trade it for anything. One of the best places to live, and they ain’t all poor.

Coal miners did very well until some bummer shut them down. Actually not all are shut down, they still sell coal to China and some mines are still producing.

As far as being naturally radioactive, everything coming from the ground has some degree of natural radioactivity. Including gases such as radon that naturally come out of the ground. It’s no big deal, you’re exposed to it all the time.

 

[cqaigy2]

Nonsense.
I live near tracks where even more dangerous liquified petroleum gas is shipped and it’s wealthy as heck where I live. I can barely afford to live here and 50 tanker cars roll by multiple times a day. They roll right past Biden’s house down the road from me, too.

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Those aren't coal cars and you can tell they don't ship much, if any coal thru there. I still vote nukes.

 

[Hay Dude]

Those aren't coal cars and you can tell they don't ship much, if any coal thru there. I still vote nukes.

Right, not coal cars, WAY worse than coal cars. Ever read the explosion results of like 10 of those cars is like a Hiroshima nuclear bomb!?

 

[Citydude]

Sure coal is fine. If you don't live near the extraction area, and you don't live next to rail tracks where it's being shipped and immediately down wind from the power plant. But those places are where poor people live so.....


I vote for Nukes.

Lol, I worked in the coal mining industry and live 5 miles from a coal fired plant. The community as a whole is far from poor.

Wyoming is developing a nuke plant but we cant find any poor people to live by it. Lol

 

[cqaigy2]

Lol, I worked in the coal mining industry and live 5 miles from a coal fired plant. The community as a whole is far from poor.

Wyoming is developing a nuke plant but we cant find any poor people to live by it. Lol

Lol, is there poor people in Wyoming? What kind of nuke?