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      07-24-2017, 04:10 PM   #89
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17% of TX power comes from wind. Works great, chops up some birds, but nothing like house cats, so I'm not too concerned. It doesn't puke its guts into Prudhoe Bay or go all Fukushima on us.
I don't see a tidal wave hitting Houston. Over 250 nuclear plants in the US since the 70s. No reason we shouldn't have more.
You know Houston's on the water, right? It's been charted to be a direct hit for a tropical storm numerous times. San Onofre in SoCal was just shuttered for acknowledged weaknesses very similar to the American designed generator at Fukushima.
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