Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Sloman Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: power shortages Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 22:04:58 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <4oqluipf8tsspfkm695dhtnde9q6pj4ui0@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024 11:05:11 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9c1b1c545e53ec7daf7071b041912250"; logging-data="1746182"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/t96aUo1scLed6by+sCq8vni4Zl+v2xBA=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:WVDLnisc6cexb45gwr3Uk3NH/qo= In-Reply-To: <4oqluipf8tsspfkm695dhtnde9q6pj4ui0@4ax.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2993 On 8/03/2024 9:40 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote: > On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 10:22:29 +0100, Jeroen Belleman > wrote: > >> On 3/8/24 07:40, Jan Panteltje wrote: >>> On a sunny day (Thu, 07 Mar 2024 07:13:56 -0800) it happened John Larkin >>> wrote in : >>> >>>> >>>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/amid-explosive-demand-america-is-running-out-of-power/ar-BB1jtM69 >>>> >>>> Increasing demand and declining reliable supply could put people in >>>> the dark. >>> >>> Yesterday I was reading Netherlands gov has decided to build 4 new nuclear power plants. >>> They still have to find locations for 3, what if next doors?? ?? >> >> These are planned to be the --now old-fashioned-- Westinghouse >> design? Big installations that need ten years to build? >> >> I wonder if it wouldn't be better to start an industry of >> small modular reactors. Tens of megawatts rather than hundreds, >> Something that could fit on a barge, or a train, transported >> where it's needed, and up and running in months rather than >> years. > > Already in development! > > https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/ Not exactly. "By design, our SMR is focused on attracting all forms of private capital to support the build out of global SMR demand. With a proven factory built commoditised approach, our SMR will offer investors and lenders a degree of confidence that will enable future customers to access a range of capital options to finance their SMR purchase." They've got as far as having a proposition that they hope will attract private capital. There's no suggestion that they have attracted any yet, let along enough to cover the cost of building a whole production line. It's a pipe-dream. -- Bill Sloman, Sydney