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aemeijers

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On Mar 1, 10:31 am, " wrote:
On Mar 1, 10:10�am, wrote:
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yes at the time the very first nuke plants were being built we were
told they were safe, triple redundant, and no electric meters would be
needed.

go search back old science magazines, and others posted it. its not
made up

BS. I live 25 miles from the first commercial nuke in the USA.
JCPL, mid 60's. No such foolish claims were ever made. And for
good reason. The plants were expensive to build. Who was gonna pay
for them? And even if the power itself was free, you still have a
huge distribution system to pay for. Ever think about who pays for
the transmission towers, sub stations, utility polls?

BTW, it's not up to me to do research to support your silly claims.
If it's true, you show us.

He's right. I spent many an afternoon in my Grandpa's basement and down
at the library, reading old Popular Science magazines and actual real
scientific journals, and the 'too cheap to meter' claim was a common
sales pitch. Note well that 'too cheap to meter' /= 'free'. It just
means they claimed you would pay for the hookup and a monthly flat fee,
which would have been a hell of cost savings for them, in those
mechanical meter, manually read, pre-computer days.

Nobody actually believed it, though.

(BTW, Popular Science, 100 years or so ago, WAS an actual science
journal. Articles for laymen didn't appear till late 30s or 40s, and
they still had actual science content on a regular basis well into the
60s, when they went strictly gee-whiz new-tech and home improvement.)

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