This is a very nice essay. Your statement about building solar and wind, but then not having the ability to transmit and the transmit being years behind, reminded me of my days in supercomputing. Everyone wanted to spend money on the fast processors but no one wanted to spend money on memory and storage, and the communication network to get things to memory and storage.
Strategic, systems thinking seems to be beyond us and the market forces that drive what we do.
Understanding that there are still hurdles/speed bumps, I don't understand why it will take 10 more years to see SMRs up and running. We see this caution quite often and it may be true, but it also seems like a self-fullfing prophesy. There must be a way to get the new generation of nuclear installed more quickly. I believe China and Russia are doing that. It's a matter of better leadership and even stronger public support. Curious what others think. Anyway, we can't wait that long.
I’ll bet a number of the anti growth and development crowd in grandpa’s day just ended up as part of those tunnels, bridges, and roads. They didn’t suffer fools for long back then. Most people today would faint if they visited a post WWII worksite of any kind.
Hi Matthew -- a great article - and one that is to the point. -- we've got al old - inadequate power grid system -- so a question?
Why would you want to have to add ($$$$$) to something that has to be rebuilt before, and with added capacity; to be able to handle the estimated tripling of electricity demand by 2050?
That just doesn't make sense -- especially where an electric power supply is available -- and going to Europe -because they're smart enough to recognize that "simple, misinformed bias" against the power supply is not reason to not "research it" which they did and realize that Physics has misstated it's position on "what "over-unity power production actually is".
Also -- there are no laws to be followed or regulations to wade through for installing this power supply anywhere in the US.
And there are no laws or regulations that state that a power utility or power grid connected site - ahs to use "only" the electricity made available by that power utility or power grid.
"Being uninformed" / or having a financial (making money building refurbishing power grids) - bias - are the only reasons that the power supply is not being considered here in the US.
This would be a great time to remind young people that there is a great future and lots of $$$$ in the trades.
This is a very nice essay. Your statement about building solar and wind, but then not having the ability to transmit and the transmit being years behind, reminded me of my days in supercomputing. Everyone wanted to spend money on the fast processors but no one wanted to spend money on memory and storage, and the communication network to get things to memory and storage.
Strategic, systems thinking seems to be beyond us and the market forces that drive what we do.
Understanding that there are still hurdles/speed bumps, I don't understand why it will take 10 more years to see SMRs up and running. We see this caution quite often and it may be true, but it also seems like a self-fullfing prophesy. There must be a way to get the new generation of nuclear installed more quickly. I believe China and Russia are doing that. It's a matter of better leadership and even stronger public support. Curious what others think. Anyway, we can't wait that long.
I’ll bet a number of the anti growth and development crowd in grandpa’s day just ended up as part of those tunnels, bridges, and roads. They didn’t suffer fools for long back then. Most people today would faint if they visited a post WWII worksite of any kind.
Buying equity votes will likely take precedence.
Hi Matthew -- a great article - and one that is to the point. -- we've got al old - inadequate power grid system -- so a question?
Why would you want to have to add ($$$$$) to something that has to be rebuilt before, and with added capacity; to be able to handle the estimated tripling of electricity demand by 2050?
That just doesn't make sense -- especially where an electric power supply is available -- and going to Europe -because they're smart enough to recognize that "simple, misinformed bias" against the power supply is not reason to not "research it" which they did and realize that Physics has misstated it's position on "what "over-unity power production actually is".
Also -- there are no laws to be followed or regulations to wade through for installing this power supply anywhere in the US.
And there are no laws or regulations that state that a power utility or power grid connected site - ahs to use "only" the electricity made available by that power utility or power grid.
"Being uninformed" / or having a financial (making money building refurbishing power grids) - bias - are the only reasons that the power supply is not being considered here in the US.
Comments welcomed.