RG&E Nuclear

[nibot]

Until I stumbled across it while bumbling along back roads, through apple orchards, I didn't know that Rochester has a nuclear power plant (aerial photo). Everyone knows about the power stations at Oswego (whose huge cooling tower can't be missed), something like 50 miles from here, but I'd never heard of this one.

Could a nuclear reactor provide its hot cooling water (which is otherwise just dumped to Lake Ontario) to the city for heating—is nuclear cogeneration done anywhere? Or at least we could create a tropical bio-dome adjacent to the reactor. (I always thought that staunchly anti-nuclear Berkeley could easily be won over if the reactor supplied hot water to all the city's hot tubs.)

Comments

DIY Hot Tubs, Danny, Sea Mamals, Zeno's Paradox and Tax Code.

[caerglas.livejournal.com]

I can't help but think of Danny sitting in a Nuclear Power plant's water system, day in and day out. Kinda like how the intake pumps for the Diablo one in Cali had to have grates on the tubes, to stop seals or sea lions or some large marine mamal from gettin sucked in; the plant would have to install grates to keep him out.

I read this bit about how income paid to you to cover your taxes is taxable itself, and I thought of you cause of the end bit:

"For example, assume an employer wants to pay a salary yielding $30,000 in after-tax incom to an employee who is taxable at a 28% tax-inclusion rate. Applying the 28% to the $30,000 of income produces $8,400 of tax, which in turn (at a 28% rate) would produce $2,352 of tax, $659 of tax, $184 of tax, $52 of tax, $15 of tax, $4 of tax, $1 of tax and some additional pennies for a total of $11,667 (These numbers are rounded to the nearest dollar. Those who insist on mathematical precision and are concerned with Zeno's paradox should look at [Internal Revenue Code Section] 7504)."

Tobo, I love the last parenthetical bit; some tax nerd snerkingly required the Internal Revenue Code deal with Zeno's paradox. That's friggin beautiful.