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RE: Living in Luxury Off the Grid - For We Who Hunger for Power! (part 2)
I love seeing the details of this. It's more complicated than I realized, but cooler too.
How noisy is the turbine? Can you hear it from the house?
I was shocked when I learned that there's a small nuclear reactor right in the middle of Boston-Cambridge, as part of a lab run by MIT. The building isn't even all that big!
Whoops missed the voting period - have to give you a bigger vote on the next one!
The turbine is pretty noisy. It's hard to work on it with someone else who needs direction (me!) but it's far enough from the house and has enough forest between it and the house that you can hear it only from the 2nd story and only if there is something wrong - it makes a lot more noise when it is free-wheeling.
It surprised me to hear about such small-scale nuclear tech too. Doug was an officer on a nuclear sub back in the Navy and he had a lot of nuclear training there. He didn't really ponder it too long but the article he saw certainly caught his eye!
Thanks. Love to see you here. You have a way of making everything more interesting!
Hmm. I suppose if they can fit a nuclear reactor into a submarine they must make 'em pretty small.