Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire

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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Our Current Infrastructure was Built for a Different World

Our Current Infrastructure was Built for a Different World

It's easy to forget that every piece of our current infrastructure--roads, rails, runways, bridges, industrial plants, housing--was built with a certain temperature range in mind. Our agricultural system and much of our electrical generating system (including dams, nuclear power stations and conventional thermal electric plants which burn coal and natural gas) were created not only with a certain temperature range in mind, but also a certain range of rainfall. Rainfall, whether it is excessive or absent, can become a problem if it creates 1) floods…Read more...

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