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  • Northwestcoug
    Cocked and Loaded
    • May 2011
    • 17951

    #976
    Who among us in our early twenties didn't denigrate women and the majority religion in a state? I'm sure he has moved on from such childish behavior and is ready to fight for Utahns.
    "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
    "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
    - SeattleUte

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    • frank ryan
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2008
      • 12307

      #977
      Originally posted by YOhio View Post
      This will be tough to overcome. Kind of impressive how he insulted and grossed out pretty much everyone.

      That is someone I won't be voting for

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      • YOhio
        Hipster Mode
        • Nov 2008
        • 26165

        #978
        Originally posted by Northwestcoug View Post
        Who among us in our early twenties didn't denigrate women and the majority religion in a state? I'm sure he has moved on from such childish behavior and is ready to fight for Utahns.
        This may be me being overly cynical or sensitive, but I think he probably would have been okay if it were just the comments about the church. It's not necessarily a mainstream belief of the left to think the church is bigoted, but I don't think it's an extremist position either. Particularly in liberal areas of SLC.

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        • MartyFunkhouser
          Disciple of RNGesus
          • Nov 2008
          • 18720

          #979
          Originally posted by YOhio View Post

          This may be me being overly cynical or sensitive, but I think he probably would have been okay if it were just the comments about the church. It's not necessarily a mainstream belief of the left to think the church is bigoted, but I don't think it's an extremist position either. Particularly in liberal areas of SLC.
          And who hasn't taken a shit in a church parking lot and showed pornography to missionaries?
          As I lead this army, make room for mistakes and depression
          --Kendrick Lamar

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          • YOhio
            Hipster Mode
            • Nov 2008
            • 26165

            #980
            Originally posted by MartyFunkhouser View Post

            And who hasn't taken a shit in a church parking lot and showed pornography to missionaries?


            I said it was just the comments! But I feel like the things you mentioned would also give him cred on the right.

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            • Shaka
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2008
              • 10447

              #981
              Originally posted by Northwestcoug View Post
              I'm sure he has moved on from such childish behavior and is ready to fight for Utahns.
              He hasn't.

              Nate is a dweeb

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              • Northwestcoug
                Cocked and Loaded
                • May 2011
                • 17951

                #982
                The first paragraph describing a plan to build a hyperscale data center in Box Elder County raises an eyebrow:

                Celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary plans to build a massive hyperscale data center project in Box Elder County — which state boosters say will fund modern buildings at Hill Air Force Base while generating all of its own power, cleaning the water it uses so it can be sent to the Great Salt Lake and creating 2,000 high-paying jobs in the rural area.
                It goes on with the standard slashing of taxes to lure the project and other economics that are just too good to pass up by not laying out the red carpet. Mr. Wonderful's pitch comes straight out of his Shark Tank Shtick. And then another raised eyebrow:

                Its first phase is expected to require about 3 gigawatts of power — nearly matching Utah’s average statewide electricity use of roughly 4 gigawatts, he noted. At full buildout, Morris said, the campus would reach 9 gigawatts, more than double the state’s current total energy consumption...

                Morris said the data centers will use new cooling technology that cleans and recycles water for reuse in the system, before returning it to an aquifer that feeds into the Great Salt Lake. He said the project will lose less water than what’s required for ranching.

                “Water usage is minimal,” he told Box Elder County commissioners Wednesday, adding, “the water that they’re buying is part of getting the land.”

                “It’s not the evaporative cooling of old days. It’s circulated water that’s reused,” he said. “The particular water has brine in it, so they’re going to clean the water, use it for the cooling, and then it will go back down into the aquifer and feed into the Great Salt Lake. So they think it’ll be a net gain to the Great Salt Lake"
                Led by "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary, a massive data center project is near final approval in Utah — including tax deals aimed at helping it “lure the hyperscalers” like Amazon, Microsoft and Google to the state.


                I suppose all of it could be true and it turns out to be a win win for Utah. But man, highly raised eyebrows...



                "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
                "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
                - SeattleUte

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                • Green Monstah
                  Royal Rooter
                  • Aug 2010
                  • 13929

                  #983
                  If only we had an expert on water in Utah on this message board…
                  Jesus wants me for a sunbeam.

                  "Cog dis is a bitch." -James Patterson

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                  • BigFatMeanie
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2008
                    • 7101

                    #984
                    I’m not an expert in water but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night and know a little bit about data centers. It is true that most new data centers no longer use evaporative cooling, which really sucks water, but instead use various combinations of refrigerants and can and due process the water before returning it. But the newer tech is not 100% recovery though - not even close.

                    I believe the NSA data center at camp Williams was the last evaporatively cooled data center built in Utah, but I’m only 65% on that. There have been several built in western salt lake county that use the newer tech.

                    Also, if you are any kind of environmentalist (or climate change catastrophist) at all, then you should get on board the nuclear bandwagon. Nuclear is the most energy dense viable power source at the moment with the least environmental impact; even including Fukushima, Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island and all other nuclear accidents.

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                    • Northwestcoug
                      Cocked and Loaded
                      • May 2011
                      • 17951

                      #985
                      That’s interesting BFM, thanks.

                      yeah their water projections seem very optimistic. It almost sounds like they’re roping in the great salt lake to woo over people. No water loss and we’re returning it to the lake? Sign me up!
                      "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
                      "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
                      - SeattleUte

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                      • Jeff Lebowski
                        Corporate lackey for Jesus
                        • Nov 2008
                        • 69561

                        #986
                        Originally posted by BigFatMeanie View Post
                        Also, if you are any kind of environmentalist (or climate change catastrophist) at all, then you should get on board the nuclear bandwagon. Nuclear is the most energy dense viable power source at the moment with the least environmental impact; even including Fukushima, Chernobyl, 3 Mile Island and all other nuclear accidents.
                        Preach, brother.

                        "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                        "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                        "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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                        • MartyFunkhouser
                          Disciple of RNGesus
                          • Nov 2008
                          • 18720

                          #987
                          Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post

                          Preach, brother.
                          The only way we are going to have clean energy and a stable grid is nuclear becoming the primary source of energy generation. Renewables are a nice supplement, but they cannot and will never be a primary source. We need to invest in nuclear and should have done it long ago.
                          As I lead this army, make room for mistakes and depression
                          --Kendrick Lamar

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                          • Northwestcoug
                            Cocked and Loaded
                            • May 2011
                            • 17951

                            #988
                            One thing I didn’t get from the article is the feasibility of the power needs. Like is the natural gas pipeline even sufficient enough to deliver more energy that what the whole of Utah currently uses?
                            "...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
                            "You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
                            - SeattleUte

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                            • Moliere
                              One man.....one pie
                              • Oct 2009
                              • 27822

                              #989
                              Originally posted by Northwestcoug View Post
                              One thing I didn’t get from the article is the feasibility of the power needs. Like is the natural gas pipeline even sufficient enough to deliver more energy that what the whole of Utah currently uses?
                              Yes, very likely. The Northwest Pipeline, which is owned by Williams could easily provide enough gas to power a plant to produce that much power. I’m sure it would result in higher rates for customers that receive gas from that pipeline though
                              "Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. Uchtdorf

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                              • Jeff Lebowski
                                Corporate lackey for Jesus
                                • Nov 2008
                                • 69561

                                #990
                                Man, the politics in Utah surrounding this data center in Box Elder county have been bonkers. We have a friendly neighborhood email group that is usually dedicated to people getting rid of old stuff or sharing the time of an elementary school production of some sort. But a woman in our neighborhood went on a rant about the data center and encouraged everybody to write letters to oppose it, and she listed all kinds of claims about the water and other facts associated that she pulled out of thin air. Then another guy calmly rebutted each of the issues she raised. And then another woman angrily jumped in. But that is nothing compared to the social media chaos that is going on. Just the claims made about the water alone are absurd. Everyone is suddenly an expert now but they are just making things up and repeating any nonsense that confirms their biases.
                                "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
                                "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
                                "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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