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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: power shortages
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 00:20:27 +1100
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On 8/03/2024 11:23 pm, Liz Tuddenham wrote:
> Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> On a sunny day (Thu, 07 Mar 2024 07:13:56 -0800) it happened John Larkin
>> <jl@997PotHill.com> wrote in <h8mjui5kf50de3tkplpf1e12k12r8dgl58@4ax.com>:
>>
>>>
>>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/amid-explosive-demand-america-i
>>> s-running-out-of-power/ar-BB1jtM69
>>>
>>> Increasing demand and declining reliable supply could put people in
>>> the dark.
>>
>> Yesterday I was reading Netherlands gov has decided to build 4 new nuclear
>> power plants. They still have to find locations for 3, what if next
>> doors?? ??
> 
> Can they find enough high ground to keep them clear of flooding if
> things go badly wrong?

There's plenty of the Netherlands that is actually above sea level.

Where I used to live in Nijmegen was 30 metres above the sea level at 
Amsterdam. Admittedly, when I lived there, the Rhine did flood, and some 
of my colleagues were thinking about moving stuff into my basement, but
you wouldn't put a nuclear reactor on a site that was susceptible to 
flooding, and the Dutch do know which sites are susceptible to flooding.

Their current minister for science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbert_Dijkgraaf

has a surname which means that one of his ancestors was responsible for 
making sure that the dikes in his area were up to snuff. The title 
"graaf" is roughly equivalent to "count" or "earl", but a dijkgraaf was 
more a functional title than an aristocratic rank.

The man himself is something of an intellectual aristocrat, but didn't 
act like one when I met him. Perfectly agreeable.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney