/diy/ - Do It Yourself

Wacky engineering hypotheticals!

give us strange scenarios where madscience/macgyverism is required.

try this one:
your local power company has decided to change to 10kV 60khz for some reason.
how do you adapt to the situation?
your switchmode psu? toster? lighting? heat? fusebox? Ect.

diy power generation is a viable solution, but a fucking boring hypothetical.

>>403606
>you'll be vaporized in the event of some kind of meltdown or attack
>Pretty much everyone on a 10 mile radius will die, everyone on a 50 mile radius will be effected somehow (radiation poisoning/cancer/inoperable growths)

You are absolutely clueless how nuclear reactors work, and even more so how they fail.

They don't explode, and they cause few if any direct deaths or injuries when they meltdown. The radiation can kill, but not "vaporize."

Chernobyl, the worst nuclear reactor accident in history, only directly caused 31 deaths, most of which were workers and firefighters who were unaware of the dangerous levels of radiation.

The disasters at Fukushima and Three Mile Island resulted in no immediate deaths, and only a few in the following months could be attributed to the meltdowns.

Modern reactors are even safer, and not only are unlikely to cause any immediate deaths or adverse health effects, they are designed to automatically collapse into a containment unit, which would prevent any major spread of the radiation.

tldr, research your facts before you spout uneducated garbage and you won't sound like such a fucking retard.