nuclear power in dawn...

[MikePizzoff]

And I always read that the people that aren't too fond of Dawn04 are constantly taking stabs at it. He was actually taking a stab at Land.

[Staredge]

i don't think that two years is a long time for infrastructure to hold together. unless some freak storm knocks down lines, i would think that lasting for 2 years would be in the realm of high probability. There's a lot of maintenance going on though. 2 years with no activity whatsoever...I'm guessing it isn't going to last.

[bassman]

He was actually taking a stab at Land. I understand that and I was saying that the Dawn04 lovers always say that the Dawn04 haters are constantly bringing up their hatred when it's not even relevent. In this case, he's bringing up his hatred for Land when it's not relevant. I guess I didn't phrase it right. I'm still not sure I phrased this right. Have I been drinking?

[acealive1]

i likes the idea. we all need nuclear power. maybe the other forms of energy would replenish themselves if we switched for a bit

[Staredge]

i likes the idea. we all need nuclear power. maybe the other forms of energy would replenish themselves if we switched for a bit Gawd, don't let the environmental whackos hear you say that. They'll have you drawn & quartered on Al Gore's lawn.

[acealive1]

Gawd, don't let the environmental whackos hear you say that. They'll have you drawn & quartered on Al Gore's lawn. is aw that film and i know that global warming is real. hell i didnt even have to see it and i know its real. i've lived in los angeles and ohio and i've seen hail in the middle of a 90 degree heat with thunder and i've seen it snow in may so anythings possible.

[Mike70]

Gawd, don't let the environmental whackos hear you say that. They'll have you drawn & quartered on Al Gore's lawn. let me take a bit of issue here with the term enviromental whacko. can we be incensed enough about what govts. have let corporations get away with when it comes to the enviroment. i don't think so. should we be worried that the arctic is freezing over later and later every year - this is a fact, a complete and total fact. not supposition and not made up by al gore. hell yes we should be. should we be worried that the something like the last 7-10 winters in canada have been warmer than the last and that last winter was the warmest winter in canada since the records have been kept. hell yes we should be. should we concerned that every single climate indicator from ice thickness, glacier areas, air temp, etc. all indicate without a doubt that the planet is getting warmer and getting warmer quickly? hell yes. should we be outraged and concerned that the US and china (now the world's largest emitter of CO2) continue to gleefully pump CO2 (the US alone produces 28.7 billion tons of CO2 every year through the burning of fossil fuels) in name of industry and business? hell yes. let's not put the blinkers on and blame this on some sort of "liberal" "left wing" or "al gore" conspiracy. that sounds like something rush limbaugh would say and he is nothing more than a hypocritical, fat, junkie with a chip on his shoulder.

[Staredge]

Did y'all notice the smiley next to my post???? I'm gonna try real hard not to get involved in a global warming argument. (Yeah, right) I'll just say this: when I was a kid, some 30 years ago, the scientists were all in a panic about the coming global ice age. (if y'all wanta argue this out, we can start a new post) So anyway.... to some extent the WWZ scenario lends itself to the best way to keep the power going. Not so much at first, but once you've managed to secure the power stations and substations, you're halfway there. Mostly securing cities would allow you to do a lot of the line maintenance needed to keep service up, and something along the lines of DEAD RECKONING would probably work as a platform to do maintenance.

[MikePizzoff]

I understand that and I was saying that the Dawn04 lovers always say that the Dawn04 haters are constantly bringing up their hatred when it's not even relevent. In this case, he's bringing up his hatred for Land when it's not relevant. I guess I didn't phrase it right. I'm still not sure I phrased this right. Have I been drinking? Okay, I understand... I think... I have been drinking. [sneaks off]

[acealive1]

ok speak of the devil.......... i said somethin earlier about seeing weird stuff living on two diff coasts. so about 20 minutes ago for the last 5 hours we've had a thunder storm and rain and wind everywhere. i JUST went outside and the porch door was FROZEN shut and now we have snow! nice hm?

[SRP76]

i likes the idea. we all need nuclear power. maybe the other forms of energy would replenish themselves if we switched for a bit Solar power stations would be the way to go. Zero danger, way, way less cost, absolutely no waste produced....

[acealive1]

Solar power stations would be the way to go. Zero danger, way, way less cost, absolutely no waste produced.... true,but god have mercy on the person who didnt charge their panels before it got dark. and with as much energy as we use,we'd have to charge panels for a full year to be able to live good without electricity

[Trin]

In this case, he's bringing up his hatred for Land when it's not relevant. My JOKE was perfectly relevant to the topic of the Hoover Dam. I have a hard time believing that the power would stay on for any length of time unless the power station were manned and the survivor base were located within very close proximity. Where I live we can't go more than a couple of storms (ice, hail, thunder, whatever) without people losing power here and there. The infrastructure between the station and the survivor area would be difficult to maintain unless it were in a protected area itself. In any case I would never rely on power for survival or as part of my zombie defenses. In Dawn they never took steps to secure a power source. I always thought that was odd. In Day the assumption was that the power was part of the base. In Land they assumedly had their own power production in the Green and it must've been relatively stable seeing as the fences relied on it.

[SRP76]

That's the thing: power may go out all over the place, but that doesn't mean the plant itself is down. It just means someone ran their car into a line pole someplace between the plant and your neighborhood. While the power gets cut off from everywhere, the plant itself will still have lights on and machinery running, no sweat, for quite awhile.

[bd2999]

Big push for nuclear and hydro power in that. People are scared of the word nuclear though. I mean in the documentary like show that you mentioned, it was assuming people just went away and boom. In a zombie scenerio not only do you have to worry about that but someone running into power lines or a transformer with a car or something while trying to get away. The power source would be fine and running but nothing would be getting out to anyone. Its an interesting idea though. To be honest I always thought that things like nuclear power are good. I mean their is a super small chance of melt down, but it provides vast amounts of power for long periods of time using a small amount of material and produces a small amount of waste product, very bad waste but I am sure it could be dealt with with more research into the matter (some bacterial strains can break it down to less toxic material but it takes a while)