Well, you won't see jellyfish shutting down solar plants or wind farms.
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Well, you won't see jellyfish shutting down solar plants or wind farms.
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G gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org shared this topic on
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"According to nuclear engineer Ronan Tanguy, the marine animals managed to slip through systems designed to keep them out because of their "gelatinous" bodies"
Jelly fish are "gelatinous" what an amazing surprise!
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It's evidently a case of "wrong type of snow".
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @sozaboy @petergleick to be fair, “wrong kind of snow” is a (bad) simplification for a real problem -
@valhalla @sozaboy @petergleick
Yes, of course.
Just like the jellyfish blocking a reactor because nobody took them in account. -
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @sozaboy @petergleick is this because they didn't take them in account?
or because they decided that having sensors to shut down automatically the reactor once in a while for any source of clogging was better engineering than building expensive protections to stop the jellyfish, and other expensive protections to stop other possible causes of clogging, and then still having to add those sensors just in case?
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @sozaboy @petergleick of course these days just building solar panels that don't require those filters in the first place is better engineering, but I don't think those were an option back when they built the nuclear plant
