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I lived in the Knoxville/Oak Ridge TN area at the time. Under Carter the TVA had built full working house demonstrations of solar, geothermal, and passive cooli
by bwanab 2y ago
I lived in the Knoxville/Oak Ridge TN area at the time. Under Carter the TVA had built full working house demonstrations of solar, geothermal, and passive cooling homes. They were all cancelled shortly after the 80 election.
- lisper 2y ago> I lived in the Knoxville/Oak Ridge TN area at the time Hey, so did I! ORHS class of '82. Maybe we met back in the day?
- bwanab 2y agoORHS '70, so probably not :(
- CalChris 2y agoMy dad worked for TVA (in Knoxville) on their nuclear plants. I got a tour of Oak Ridge including a test reactor where you could look into a reactor core … through about 20 feet of flowing water, an early unforgettable blue.
- chasil 2y agoI am assuming the blue glow was due to Cherenkov radiation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation