Posted on 04/25/2024 7:43:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
OK: a 50 MW power plant is enough to power XXXX people annually.
By definition a 50 MW power plant is capable of producing 50 MW continuously.
“Because demand has to be there if all 7500 people turn on their AC at the same time while they’re cooking, etc.”
Not all are going to have all on at the same time. Some would be out shopping or entertain during peak time.
The average family size is 3+ people. No way the average family would demand 25kw.
It is a totally unfounded rumor that they are called “Le Petite Chernobyls.”
For example, with my home solar I have to consider not just the total solar in kWh collected and stored into batteries during the day, and how much total kWh in power my home needs throughout the day, but also how much I need at any one time. If I had enough inverter capacity to provide just 10kW of continuous AC power, then when we get home with the EV and charge it at 9.5kW, I'd have just half a kW of capacity to run the rest of the house. Even if my 20kW of solar panels was easily keeping my 92kWh of battery storage full, if I can get only 10kW of AC at a time I would have to pull from the grid a lot if I ran some of my appliances while I was charging the EV while my electric furnace was on. For that reason, I realized it was worth spending a little extra to increase my inverter capacity to meet the demand my electrical panels often need. Even if my inverters don't have to produce that kW demand all day, when I need it I need it.
That's why I say that you're right to make the averages part of the equation, but respectfully I say you're wrong to just discard demand.
There is lots of talk and damned little action on the nuclear energy front. The Saudi promised the same sort of thing more than a decade ago with Thorium reactors.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Saudi...
Saudi plans 16 reactors by 2030: World Nuclear News [Arab News, 1 June 2011]. “Saudi Arabia plans to construct 16 nuclear power reactors over the next 20 years at a cost of more than 300 billion riyals ($80 billion).”
To date one uranium reactor has been built and has just begun to function.
Congress would crap themselves (if they didn’t already) if we were nuclear powered. Not gonna happen.
I agree with that...as long as the average family is allowed to drive gas cars and use natural gas heat (particularly since this is about cold Wyoming and not warm Florida).
If you’re in Gillette, go eat at Pokey’s BBQ. Have some of everything. Especially the gator tail.
Business must be booming...
“The enviro-nutjobs will shut this down before you can blink. “
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are building one too.
Correction:
I used 50 Mw. That would be about 17 MWe so disregard my actual numbers.
I’d like one, please.
“I agree with that...as long as the average family is allowed to drive gas cars and use natural gas heat (particularly since this is about cold Wyoming and not warm Florida).”
The will build in Wyoming and sell world wide.
Your hair will fall out...
Gillette, the best a man can get.
I wish them luck. Several decades ago the Army tried to develop small nuclear energy plants to supply its remote bases. That experiment didn’t work out well. It was designed to be operated by three specialists and was being tested at the Idaho National Laboratory (formerly known as INEL, the NRTS, etc.) which is located in a desert area where experimental plants could be widely isolated to minimize danger.
One late night, the central administration site received an alarm from the Army reactor. It responded and everything from the outside looked quiet and normal. Men went inside the site which seemed to be deserted but their radiation monitors pegged out. The search crew thought it was a malfunction of the monitor so they proceeded to the reactor room. Three highly radiated and highly dead operators were there (although it took awhile to find the third member who had been impaled by a reactor fuel rod and stuck to the ceiling of the large dome of the reactor room. Cleanup involved climbing a ladder/stairs outside to the top of the dome, descending the stairs to the reactor room floor, ascending the stairs again and down, all of which had to be accomplished in ten minutes to avoid radiation poisoning. They could make the trip only once. Even so, every rescuer was pensioned because they exceeded their lifetime exposure to radiation.
The blame was attributed to a feud between two of the operators resulting in a murder suicide. The Army was put out of the reactor business. The site was sealed in concrete and stories abound about what was done to the bodies of the victims. There’s at least one youTube video about the incident but my information came from talking with people at the INEL who had been there and involved in the cleanup.
Switched to BIC right after that, didn’t see the difference but no Gillette razors for me anymore
Sounds like a gay love triangle. I lived next door to a gay couple. They were quiet and peaceful until another gay moved in next door on the other side. Then all hell broke loose.............
Whatever happened to Thorium power plants?
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