Con-Ed Walkout/Lockout (New York, Union, York: how much, earthquake, living in)

[blackconverse]

Originally Posted by grimace8

Will my "estimated" bill be lower than normal? Higher? If lower, will they slam me with a letter around Christmas saying: "Dear ConEd Customer: Guess what, you owe us a ton from last summer! Pay $xxx.xx as soon as possible. Happy holidays!"

Sounds like a hot mess waiting to happen.

Estimated bills are always higher because companies like these are used to accounting errors in their favor.

[Kefir King]

Originally Posted by Jester2138

It seems their power generation is strained to the absolute limit about ever summer. Why don't they just build another power plant?

Would you suggest midtown or the financial district?

[nybbler]

Originally Posted by Kefir King

Would you suggest midtown or the financial district?

How about a nice nuke on Governor's Island?

[Kefir King]

Originally Posted by nybbler

How about a nice nuke on Governor's Island?

With a great big TARGET on the side facing Newark Airport?

[nybbler]

Originally Posted by Kefir King

With a great big TARGET on the side facing Newark Airport?

Don't be silly; the target would be on the south side, for planes coming up the coast. Planes coming out of Newark Airport wouldn't have gotten up to full speed yet.

(even casting terrorism aside, the idea of a nuke on Governor's Island is of course absurd... but I wish my Photoshop skills were up to putting a couple of cooling towers within sight of the Statue of Liberty)

[Kefir King]

Planes coming out of Newark Airport wouldn't have gotten up to full speed yet.

And thus have completely full fuel tanks?

putting a couple of cooling towers within sight of the Statue of Liberty

How about one with steam coming out of her ass?

With a big sign replacing her torch saying CONSOLIDATED EDISON.


Yep, I think that even INDIAN POINT at 35 miles away is FAR FAR too close.

[Jester2138]

Why does it have to be in Midtown or the Financial District?

35 miles away is too close? Are you kidding? Power has to be generated somewhere - guess you're just another NIMBY New Yorker. Heck, I'd much rather have a fusion plant in the city proper than a coal or natural gas plant. Much safer, cleaner, and requires fewer resources to operate.

[nybbler]

Originally Posted by Jester2138

Heck, I'd much rather have a fusion plant in the city proper than a coal or natural gas plant. Much safer, cleaner, and requires fewer resources to operate.

Also doesn't exist. Fission is what we've got. Shutting down Indian Point isn't practical, unless you LIKE brownouts and rolling blackouts. Maybe it'd get my company to set up a NJ office though :-)

[Jester2138]

Originally Posted by nybbler

Also doesn't exist. Fission is what we've got.

Oops, two letters mixed up.

[Kefir King]

Yes,

Controlled cold fusion is simply a device to transfer immense amounts of money from taxpayers to bogus research institutions. As real as Peter Pan.


As far as NIMBY goes, yep, count me and my 20 million close neighbors in. Some neighborhoods are just too densely populated for dangerous operations, and a decrepit aging nuclear plant is at the TOP of the list of dangerous operations. If Fukushima had been located in Buchanan New York, those of us who survived would be wandering homeless around Pennsylvania, Long Island and Southern New Jersey looking for a place to live for the next million years. Night of the Living GLOWING Dead all over.

Three Mile Island was the work of MORONS...doing the same thing AGAIN in light of Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima is beyond the imagination and there are just no adjectives to describe this level of stupidity.