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That's possibly the dumbest chart I've ever seen. Since when are nuclear plants disaster locations? Might as well label the entire US at risk of "falling airp
by pdelbarba 8y ago
That's possibly the dumbest chart I've ever seen. Since when are nuclear plants disaster locations? Might as well label the entire US at risk of "falling airplanes" or every city as "ICBM target".
In going to assume this just an ad for the labeled data center which is right in the middle of a drought prone area. Can't run a data center when there are no employees and no water but I see that droughts and wild fires are conveniently omitted...
- framebit 8y agoNot to mention that 100mi inland doesn't have nearly the same risk for dangerous hurricane effects as 1 - 10mi inland, and what about forest fires, and what about icy roads, etc, etc.
- maxerickson 8y agoIn places where winter weather is normally cold and snowy, big storms aren't really disasters. It's necessary to plan for them but it's very unusual where just being in a location during one exposes people to a lot of danger.
- jonhendry18 8y agoOne risk in that case is if there's a heavy, early snow before the leaves are off the trees. That's really hard on trees, which is really hard on the power grid. That happened in Connecticut in 2011. Heavy wet snow the Saturday before Halloween. We were without power for a week.
- soared 8y ago+ earthquakes in the rocky mountains?!
- irrational 8y agoOne example: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2016/3019/fs20163019.pdf https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2016/3019/fs20163019.pdf
- soared 8y agoThat is amazing, thank you for that link! Sent to a few friends in slc.