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Average world electricity consumption is about 3 TW or 3000 average sized 1 GW nuclear power plants. One could build a hundred factories building 200 MW modula
by Gravityloss 5y ago
Average world electricity consumption is about 3 TW or 3000 average sized 1 GW nuclear power plants.
One could build a hundred factories building 200 MW modular reactors, one per day each, meaning the problem is solved in... 150 days.
It is indeed a large scale problem.
One can still look at projects like the 20,000 B-24 Liberator bombers produced in USA during the second world war. That is a staggering achievement.
https://www.airplanes-online.com/b24-liberator-production-assembly-plants.htm https://www.airplanes-online.com/b24-liberator-production-as...
- glogla 5y ago> "Just build nuclear" - As per the post itself, we need to build 3 nuclear plants every day until 2050 to replace the entire grid with nuclear. Yeah not realistic. > Average world electricity consumption is about 3 TW or 3000 average sized 1 GW nuclear power plants. That makes it sound like GP is several orders of magnitud wrong. Throws the rest of the post into question as well.
- generativenoise 5y agoThe 3 per day per the article is for 1ZJ which is an estimate of total energy consumption, not just replacing the electrical grid.