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5 cents/kwh? Not very cheap.
Why not? Who wouldn't want a completely self-contained and safe source of essentially limitless power at 5cents a kilowatt, that lasts for 40 years? No more blackouts, no more rate increases, no worrying about replacing your nice incandescent light bulbs.
You'll have plenty of spare power to charge your car.
I want one.
Is this design a “PEBBLE BED REACTOR” by any chance?..............
Not only do you cut the cost of purchased electricity, you’d save the cost of backup generators for your facility (You’d use the grid for backup for your reactor.) And, you should get points from the greenies for cutting your carbon footprint.
Since it is 30 below and Fair4banks doesn’t allow woodstoves to be used when it gets cold (it’s not really cold yet) it seems a few of these Toshiba reactors would be ideal in this town.
I think it’s great. We are in an energy crisis. We should have one of there everywhere possible, as well as full size nuke plants in every state. We’ll sell the excess electricity to Canada and Mexico. And we’ll run all of our cars, buses, trucks, and trains off electricity. Then we can tell our enemies to go get bent because we don’t need their oil anymore.
One of these would power about ten cabins today.
That’s the second reactor they have designed today......:o)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941572/posts
Remember when these types of innovation came from IBM, Honeywell, General Electric, etc?
Remember when an American kid could get an engineering degree and have a resonable expectation of a job and a good career?
Not to worry, England travelled down this path, and the social welfare state has worked real well for them, right?
Mao Tse-Tung thought it would be a great idea to have every farmer build a backyard iron foundry to kick start industrial growth.
Someone needs to figure out a micro steam generator that would fit just inside the human ear. My ex stays so steamed at me she could power a small city.
Never happen for retail use...
The SOVIETS designed and built around 200 very small Strontium reactors to power weather stations, and other extreme remote sites in the 60’s and 70’s...
Today, people are DYING because they leak, or some idiot breaks one down for scrap metal...
L. Neil Smith predicted this in his novel the Probability Broach. His version was more of a “cold fusion” type thing though. Dock him points for that... Concept is the same otherwise.
I Want One!
Nice. Can’t wait to get one to power my home.
Still, 5 cents/kWh is twice as expensive as power generated by traditional nuclear power plants.
... Pay for the convenience I guess ...
Just get some little centrifuges and I’m ready to go.
Sign me up! Just call me Homer Simpson.
What happens when some idiot decides to blow one of these up?