California lawmakers vote to keep Diablo Canyon online
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California lawmakers vote to keep Diablo Canyon online
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Re: California lawmakers vote to keep Diablo Canyon online
#2TIL There is a nuclear power plant named Diablo Canyon. I thought it was a reference to some game in the Diablo franchise and I was wondering why politicians would vote to keep a multiplayer video game's servers online.
Re: California lawmakers vote to keep Diablo Canyon online
#3TIL There is a nuclear power plant named Diablo Canyon. I thought it was a reference to some game in the Diablo franchise and I was wondering why politicians would vote to keep a multiplayer video game's servers online.
It's old enough to even be a Simpsons reference
https://comb.io/H7qsWh (for some reason there's no English version on youtube)
Re: California lawmakers vote to keep Diablo Canyon online
#4TIL There is a nuclear power plant named Diablo Canyon. I thought it was a reference to some game in the Diablo franchise and I was wondering why politicians would vote to keep a multiplayer video game's servers online.
Fun fact, the game series is actually named after Mount Diablo:
Re: California lawmakers vote to keep Diablo Canyon online
#5TIL There is a nuclear power plant named Diablo Canyon. I thought it was a reference to some game in the Diablo franchise and I was wondering why politicians would vote to keep a multiplayer video game's servers online.
The real power plant is right next to the exceptionally beautiful
Re: California lawmakers vote to keep Diablo Canyon online
#6Now if only we could get more reactors built. According to the New York Times, Diablo Canyon provides 9% of California's electricity[1]. It astounds me that a single generating station like that can provide a whopping 9% of California's electricity.
Assuming the same capacity, four more stations would take it to 45%. That's nearly half of your electricity for a state as large as California from a stable, reliable, and clean(-er than fossil fuels) source that drops into the existing grid. I know nuclear isn't perfect and building new reactors is a huge challenge but it's a great stopgap solution for the next 100-odd years until a sufficient amount of solar & wind can be deployed to replace the reactors.
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/climate/california-lawmak...
Re: California lawmakers vote to keep Diablo Canyon online
#7Based.
Re: California lawmakers vote to keep Diablo Canyon online
#8Good news.
Although I am wary of nuclear's sustainability due to usage of fresh water (another limited resource in our climate crisis days)... I mean look at France nuclear + dry rivers...
I think Nuclear should be part of our basket of energy sources (as it's baseload) to combat climate change.
Re: California lawmakers vote to keep Diablo Canyon online
#9Diablo Canyon is in an absolutely beautiful part of the central coast of California. Definitely visit the greater San Luis Obispo area. Californians want it all (green and plentiful), but lack the basics to make that happen (coalfire supplemented with wind and solar plus overloaded grids -- see what happens this weekend with FlexAlerts already called).
Nuclear should be considered. I don't know how to make them perfectly safe and their have been incidents where unfortunate accidents occur, but newer technology and designs might make our society able to have their cake and eat it too.
Re: California lawmakers vote to keep Diablo Canyon online
#10This is a pragmatic decision as California, like many other regions, tries to make a transition away from fossil fuels while also dealing with the persistent disinformation from the anti-nuclear lobby.