Scientific American article on distributed power

[russ]

the big picture is to put small nuclear plants distributed strategically in and around a city.

And they will be operated by the utility.

[Shockah]

And they will be operated by the utility.

Back to square 1 ...

[inetdog]

But the big picture is to put small nuclear plants distributed strategically in and around a city.

Every church, synagogue and mosque should have one!

[pleppik]

But the big picture is to put small nuclear plants distributed strategically in and around a city. These are small passive units that can be fit in your house basement and you would not even know they are there.

We can check to see where that one stands in 2034, too.

At least with PV, the technology already exists and is being mass-produced. You can argue about how much incremental improvement is left, but nobody doubts you can make it work.

AFAIK (and please send a link if you've got one, because I looked and couldn't find anything), nobody has built a mini-nuke outside the lab, much less gotten anywhere within a light-year of commercializing it. I know there are some people excited about the idea and some research grants floating around, but that's about it.

Sunking, I'm actually a little surprised--here I had you pegged as a brutally down-to-earth no-nonsense kind of guy. I didn't think you'd get taken for something like this.

[russ]

Sunking, I'm actually a little surprised--here I had you pegged as a brutally down-to-earth no-nonsense kind of guy. I didn't think you'd get taken for something like this.

He is and there is information out there as I have read the same. Find it yourself.

PV is never going to be more than a blip on the radar - still in the less than 1% of total power generation? Still the smallest producer of RE? In both cases, yes.