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[Spridgets] Re Renewable energy (off topic)

Subject: [Spridgets] Re Renewable energy (off topic)
From: bjshov8 at tx.rr.com (bjshov8 at tx.rr.com)
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 11:44:28 -0400
I think the design of these plants, at least the mechanical and electrical 
systems, is considerably less sophisticated than you realize.  (Hint, have you 
ever read the comic strip "Dilbert"?)

The biggest problem is that these are difficult systems to design, and it is 
hard to find enough people who are truly competent to design them.  You can't 
take the average college engineering student and convert him into someone who 
can do this at a high level.  And when it filters down to the companies and 
employees that actually get hired to design these things, they are trying to do 
it to make money so they are not hiring the best that they could hire.  The 
same thing happens in my branch of engineering.  My feeling is that the plants 
are too complicated and complication affects reliability.

> plants designed by the best and brightest who supposedly took every possible
> problem into consideration. As one writer said after the latest accident it
> will simply be a matter of time before some country becomes uninhabitable
> because of a nuclear accident.

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