Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 22, 2011

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    comicgos  almost 13 years ago

    YIKES

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    rayannina  almost 13 years ago

    Oh no – the travel coffee mug house!

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    pouncingtiger  almost 13 years ago

    If this was made in Japan, it might meltdown.

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    GROG Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    There can’t be much traffic getting in and out of the neighborhood either. Sign me up.

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    Superfrog  almost 13 years ago

    Would suit nuclear family.

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    AKHenderson Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    Don’t “amortization” and “half-life” kinda mean the same thing?

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    sherpafree  almost 13 years ago

    Pretty much describes my house.

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    Tammycrookshanks  almost 13 years ago

    It should have free electric.

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    pbarnrob  almost 13 years ago

    Might not need electric; glow-in-the-dark walls! (With dark curtains.)

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    Packratjohn Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    I can’t find any fault in his logic…..

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    roctor  almost 13 years ago

    Topical yet true. 20km and expanding.

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    Colt9033  almost 13 years ago

    Not many nuclear plants I’ve seen use those type of cooling towers. So less likely people be that afraid of it.

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    Yukoneric  almost 13 years ago

    I want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or a dome home!!!

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    Potrzebie  almost 13 years ago

    JUst put a sign outside: “County Landfill” and some fake Seagulls about.

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    ImaginaryFriend  almost 13 years ago

    You might find a cooling tower on about any kind of power plant that generates steam (Coal, Gas, Nuclear, others). It is one of the biggest misconceptions about nuclear.

    If it was functional though, you would not need air conditioning, and you would have 500 floors!

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    lewisbower  almost 13 years ago

    Out of all the reactors in all the world, only three have gone bad. What are the chances of this one?

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    Destiny23  almost 13 years ago

    Yeah, it’s funny, people see a cooling tower and thing “DANGER!”, but it’s the containment dome that holds the scary stuff. And one of those domes would make a good, solid house!

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    BloomCo  almost 13 years ago

    MSNBC had an article just last week about how more people are moving closer to nuclear plants. I replied that I’d much rather live next to a nuke plant than next to Hollywood or Disney World.

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    MisngNOLA  almost 13 years ago

    Yeah, it’s funny how so many disaster and gloom articles show the item least likely to cause any problems to the local community. The cooling towers have no nuclear material, and are isolated from such by at least three boundary layers. Cooling towers generally don’t catch fire, have few moving parts (fans mostly if that), and yet because they are typically the most imposing structures, they have become the symbols for nuclear plants. In the United States, containment domes for nuclear reactors are required to be built to withstand the effects of 2 commercial jetliners crashing into them without allowing a breach. Not sure if Japan’s reactors are held to the same standards.

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    pschearer Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    Central air.

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    BeniHanna6 Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    I just love the idiots who see a Natural draft Cooling Tower and think it’s a Nuclear Power plant. Hey they use them at Coal and Gas power plants too.

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    puddleglum1066  almost 13 years ago

    It’s ironic that the hyperboloid cooling tower became the icon of nuclear power after Three Mile Island, as neither Chernobyl nor Fukushima used them.

    Not all reactors have containment “domes.” The shape of the building varies greatly from one style of reactor to the next. Fukushima’s GE Mark I BWR’s were housed in cubical buildings; many of the PWR reactors in the US are housed in concrete cylinders, some of the older reactors are in spherical containments, and of course the San Onofre reactors in California are housed in domes that made Lt. Frank Drebbin think of his late wife…

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    1OldDude  almost 13 years ago

    @ puddlegum: thanks for the Frank Drebin rememberance. Smiling

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    bmonk  almost 13 years ago

    If you’re worried, you can rent an unused ICBM silo to build in.

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    ilsapadu  almost 13 years ago

    There was an old woman who lived in a shoe! Imagine how little time her guests spent there!

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    PredatorOfOmaha  almost 13 years ago

    So is it a forced draft or natural draft cooling tower? Sorry, that is not a containment building for a nuclear reactor. Some coal-fired power plants use these types of cooling towers.

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    RalphWiley  almost 13 years ago

    It’s a mutated yurt!

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    policelimit Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    Road side architecture at it’s best. I’d go see that house, thus rendering the real estate agent’s claims null and void.

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    Trebor39  almost 13 years ago

    Social vs nuclear contamination.

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    Dtroutma  almost 13 years ago

    A Frank Lloyd Wrong design?

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    RadioTom  almost 13 years ago

    My questions: How Much, and How much are the taxes?

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    sleepeeg3  almost 13 years ago

    Someone has too much socialist FUD on their mind. No nuclear material in the tower, as others have said. It removes heat through a heat exchanger using clean water and evaporative cooling.

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    Varnes  almost 13 years ago

    Nuclear, a terrible thing to waste….

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    JP Steve Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    Cool design!

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    Ernest Lemmingway  almost 13 years ago

    Now that’s my kind of house! The perfect place for a misanthrope.

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    alan.gurka  almost 13 years ago

    I like it. It has a certain glow to it.

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