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2GW of energy per day? Isn't that like a medium-sized nuclear reactor every day?
by onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago
2GW of energy per day?
Isn't that like a medium-sized nuclear reactor every day?
- zdragnar 4y agoA significant cost driver of most energy sources is the work involved in dealing with the high temperatures and high pressures- cooling towers, steam chambers and turbines that can withstand superheated, high pressure steam, etc. It's a lot of concrete, thick steel walls and safety regulations as each one is basically a small bomb should the containment fail. If they can actually produce a 50 megawatt generator the size of a shipping container and requiring inexpensive, easy to source fuel, with sane emissions, every power producer in the world will be chomping at the bit to buy them. My state is currently in the process of putting up solar panel fields on the sites of coal power plants that are being decommissioned, because it is getting harder to find suitable locations with cooperative local governments. Many see them as eyesores, along with the added trouble of putting in new HVDC lines out to the fields. If instead you could get significantly more power, and equally clean, from the same site, power companies will ditch solar in a heartbeat. No need to buy more land or run new lines, just decommission your coal and nat gas power plants and put up a few of these.