I’ve had a couple of friends ask me if I’m prepping.

Prepping for what?

I see the UK is doing a Be Prepared campaign and Fucking Dan Bongino said something on a podcast. What’s that about?

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    Climate change affects power generators.

    When rivers dry up, it obviously affects hydroelectric generators.

    But it also affects nuclear power, because they’re dependent on a constant source of cool water. If a river water level drops below the nuclear power plant’s water intake pipe, the plant has to shut down because it can’t cool the nuclear reactor vessel

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      Not just Nuclear, Coal and Gas plant use loads of water as well. A typical 1,000 MW plant consuming up to 2.5 billion liters of water per year, mostly for cooling.

      Regardless of how you heat water, you need water.