Nearing the end of 2021
Dec. 26th, 2021 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
markc19572021 has been a year of ups and downs. I got my covid booster on Friday the 24th, and the side effects started kicking in about halfway through Christmas day. Not my idea of a good time, but at least I don't have to travel anywhere. If I'm feeling better tomorrow, I may try and clean up my workshop so I can actually use it. Sold the TrailManor a few months ago. Didn't get quite as much as I'd have liked to for it, but that freed up enough driveway space to park my truck close enough to the garage to not have to hike from there to the street with tools to work on it. A new battery, flushing the radiator, checking the brakes and the serpentine belt are on the to-do list. Oil and transmission fluid are in good condition, though they probably should be changed after sitting for so long. With the way gas prices are going, filling the tank will probably cause smoke to pour from somewhere within my wallet. Oh...wait, I already go through that when I fill the Subaru.
Funny that it has a tank about the same size as the one in the truck. I've been going through the trials and tribulations of being a home owner. Had to replace a GFCI breaker that failed in the house in Yuba City. The ones that are rated for 20A are not cheap, and the only upside to that entire exercise was finding that the solar power system that came with the house already has a transfer switch and a tie-in for a generator. Joanne wants to upgrade things so that we have storage for the solar power and a generator, just in case PG&E continues in their ways of cutting off power when the wind gets high during fire season. Personally, I'd like to have a thorium MSR with a turbogenerator on it, but I think the neighbors might object to the notion of me having a nuke in my back yard. Hmmmm...a different meaning for NIMBY. lol. Best wishes to everyone in 2022, and may it be a darned sight better than 2021.
Funny that it has a tank about the same size as the one in the truck. I've been going through the trials and tribulations of being a home owner. Had to replace a GFCI breaker that failed in the house in Yuba City. The ones that are rated for 20A are not cheap, and the only upside to that entire exercise was finding that the solar power system that came with the house already has a transfer switch and a tie-in for a generator. Joanne wants to upgrade things so that we have storage for the solar power and a generator, just in case PG&E continues in their ways of cutting off power when the wind gets high during fire season. Personally, I'd like to have a thorium MSR with a turbogenerator on it, but I think the neighbors might object to the notion of me having a nuke in my back yard. Hmmmm...a different meaning for NIMBY. lol. Best wishes to everyone in 2022, and may it be a darned sight better than 2021.
Backyard nukes
Date: 2022-01-05 06:52 pm (UTC)They also published plans for a backyard "Atomic pile",
basically a deep hole in the ground with a bunch of radio active gunk in the bottom that you could
lower a few loops of pipe into to generate steam for heating or driving a generator.
I think they suggested a concrete lid over it.
By the late 1950s, they were quietly shutting down and cleaning up some of these haz mat sites they helped create.
I believe it involved comdemning the whole block, mitigating it, demolishing houses and leaving it
fenced for a few decades.
They did an amazing job of keeping it hushed up.