Posted on 11/24/2024 2:29:16 PM PST by DFG
We will be ruled by Brawndo and QR Codes.
They need to be forced to build their own power generation.
Thank you both!
So, it sounds like the plants were built with excess storage capacity or perhaps storage was extended.
I think that when plants were originally built, it was not clear how long they could remain operational. I am not sure that the incentives for extending their use are wise, however. It must be hard to resist the gain of continued operation over money already spent.
I don’t think Gates will bring any wisdom to the table.
The design is finalized and licensed.
Getting the site licensed and all the rest of the requirements will take time.
Then comes the litigation by the ‘Interveners’
Twenty years later the plant goes on-line, if you’re lucky.
Like many things in the Left’s agendas, reality bites.
The “trans” portion of their “woke” agenda has run up against the female reality that females are the real victims of so much of that agenda, in male-female specific facilities, in sports, and from both of those into the broad social conflicts it creates.
The Left’s “green” agenda, so beloved by the techo-nerd corporate and and social behemoths is now running up against the reality that those techno-nerd behemoths will not be able to operate on a “renewable energy” paradigm. That is now starting to separate the techno-nerd billionaires and corporate giants from the Left’s “green” agendas, and seeing them find sound science critics of that agenda.
What is needed now is more of those billionaires to start creating sound higher academic institutions not run by the Left and its agendas.
Speaking of Elon, he did some kind of demo a couple months ago that featured robots doing human tasks. It quickly dropped off the radar because I think it scared a lot of people.
Also, Trump has some kind of AI dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago.
The AI future is here.
. There are other Nuclear plants being brought back…Palisades in west Michigan is being restarted, and other plants too.
Also , some AI data center owners are planning on utilizing Small Modular Reactors(SMRs) at the sites to provide power directly. I think these would be in the area of 20 to 100 MWs, but not sure. Nuclear power is going to make a big comeback
The greenies (or at least some of them) prefer nuclear power over gas and coal, and that’s providing this new found massive load increase.
The plants were designed with capacity to store 10 years of spent nuclear fuel.
The Feds reneged on the deal to take possession of the spent fuel so the plants bought storage systems to store the spent fuel in what is called Dry Fuel Storage cask.
After 10 years the fuel is cool enough to store outside of a cooled pool of water.
There are a number of different designs of these cask but generally they all are stainless steel cans filled with an inert gas that keeps the fuel dry and cool. The can is inserted in to a reenforced concrete cask to protect the can.
Solar and wind power after being processed through grid-compatible inverters and power conditioning is indistinguishable from electricity obtained from turbine plants and other sources.
You are correct
“Microsoft has made the restart of Unit 1 possible through an agreement to purchase the full electricity output from the plant for 20 years, a sign of the growing role the tech sector is playing in shaping the future of the U.S. power industry”
That’s a lot of power
Of course Microsoft can always sell any excess power on the spot market.
Nukes like to run at 100% power. Load following is not good for Nukes.
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sounds like you are in the industry. I worked at a nuclear plant in the 80s, and as an electric system operator for many years. Interesting times.
Thats what the small reactors are for
I thought Nevada rejected it?
I have 37 years at the same plant.
I am happy for you that you got out in the 80s
Nukes got stupid after that.
Nevada didn’t have a choice.
Nevada’s powerful Senator Harry Reid blocked it’s funding in the Senate.
Harry Reid was happy to spend the money in Nevada until the burial site was approaching thee point of accepting waste for burial and suddenly the site was unsuitable.
The efficiency of getting a better answer to one's question will more than pay for the additional electricity.
And as the algorithms improve for sorting all the web's information in "tries" or "trees" in the dormant time between questions will allow more efficient future answering.
It's always cheaper to plan more and execute with more and better information.
As a great chemistry prof once told our class long ago: "Six weeks in the lab will save you two hours in the library every time."
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