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I technically agree, but modularity also works on large reactors. And they are generally cheaper to build and operate per energy produced than smaller reactors.
by preisschild 1y ago
I technically agree, but modularity also works on large reactors. And they are generally cheaper to build and operate per energy produced than smaller reactors.
- jl6 1y agoModularity could work on mainframes too but it mostly didn’t. Mainframe cost per transaction can be very low, and yet here we are. Tech at scale always passes through a cheap/worse is better phase.
- thrance 1y agoWhich is why comparing mainframes and nuclear reactors is a bad analogy. A better one would be datacenters vs individual PCs. If the goal is efficiency, datacenters win everytime.
- preisschild 1y agoTake a look at the open compute project for example. Instead of having power supplies in each server, they have a lesser amount of large ones for example. Economies of scale wins in big compute projects too