Windmill yes but as you said wind dependant. I have trees on my property and water from the well and dugout. In a desperate situation I can take the multiple spare alternators off my fleet of cars and hook them to a simple windmill or build a steam generator that’s word burning to produce electricity as well as secondary heating. Super cheap plentiful fuel, just a lot of work on my end but doable.
Nuclear fuel could be available and cheap if it wasn’t for idiots and hippies (whops tautology!) being anti nuclear since the 70’s. Theyd rather have a battery powered car same as their cell phone charger by a nimby coal plant.
Yep. The source of fuel is common on this planet. Seawater contains uranium, costly to source that way in comparison. Again to create into reactor fuel is a much bigger process. Hang on, it needs less than constant petrol combustion, but refining it, requires a much bigger process, you're talking for every other household. Nuts. Then there's the waste. Far more parts are needed for any designs. And it uses lots of resources, lots more resources for any cooling or shutdown. Also it doesn't last forever, wears quick, but the output is potentially much more. They are making these mini reactors. Again no longevity but will keep up with demands. Super costly to make.
The fuel source could be mass produced like many other things and be made user serviceable if need be. Having multiple reactors in a neighborhood creates redundancy. If everyone has a car you can bum a ride to work when yours breaks. If everyone has to take the bus, no one’s getting to work if the bus breaks.
I don’t like being on a shared resource with others if I can have a dedicated system for my family that I can maintain. Sometimes the cost is worth it.
I understand your point. However there's a huge cost, converting and enriching it, and no, it's not cheap to refine or mass produce. But it's the amount of parts needed on each system utilized, and the further resources water, salts, and the waste on top. The output is huge, you're talking a town of people powered, 10s of thousand, even on a smaller reactor. But there is that offset, costs, parts, resources, waste. There is also the lifetime where these mini reactors are supposedly only serviceable for around a decade. The first nuclear reactors are faster being replaced not even in a person's lifetime, what around 30 years, generously 50, but that's asking for lies. These newer reactors are using enriched fuels to generate their output. A much greater process.
Indeed there’s a huge cost now but there’s been no incentive for competition to bring the costs down. Wide scale adoption and multiple companies producing equipment would bring the cost down to end consumers. Cars were once a toy for the rich, now it’s a normal everyday item. We CAN produce small neighbourhood power generators and farm sized ones, right now it’s expensive but we could change that. You can’t put a hydro electric dam just anywhere. You can’t stick a windmill just anywhere for it to be cost effective or even to make it work most of the time. You can’t put a massive solar array and battery system just anywhere if you don’t have the room for it. But a power reactor scaled down to the size of a garden shed is possible. Less material so a critical fuck up doesn’t nuke the area just fucks over YOUR generator is possible. The powers that be don’t want us to be independent and self sustaining, they want all the control. Even if you and I sat down and made a profitable business plan to make and sell garden shed nuke generators we’d face unbelievable opposition so they keep all the control. It’s sad but it’s the world we’re used to.
Windmill yes but as you said wind dependant. I have trees on my property and water from the well and dugout. In a desperate situation I can take the multiple spare alternators off my fleet of cars and hook them to a simple windmill or build a steam generator that’s word burning to produce electricity as well as secondary heating. Super cheap plentiful fuel, just a lot of work on my end but doable. Nuclear fuel could be available and cheap if it wasn’t for idiots and hippies (whops tautology!) being anti nuclear since the 70’s. Theyd rather have a battery powered car same as their cell phone charger by a nimby coal plant.
Yep. The source of fuel is common on this planet. Seawater contains uranium, costly to source that way in comparison. Again to create into reactor fuel is a much bigger process. Hang on, it needs less than constant petrol combustion, but refining it, requires a much bigger process, you're talking for every other household. Nuts. Then there's the waste. Far more parts are needed for any designs. And it uses lots of resources, lots more resources for any cooling or shutdown. Also it doesn't last forever, wears quick, but the output is potentially much more. They are making these mini reactors. Again no longevity but will keep up with demands. Super costly to make.
The fuel source could be mass produced like many other things and be made user serviceable if need be. Having multiple reactors in a neighborhood creates redundancy. If everyone has a car you can bum a ride to work when yours breaks. If everyone has to take the bus, no one’s getting to work if the bus breaks. I don’t like being on a shared resource with others if I can have a dedicated system for my family that I can maintain. Sometimes the cost is worth it.
I understand your point. However there's a huge cost, converting and enriching it, and no, it's not cheap to refine or mass produce. But it's the amount of parts needed on each system utilized, and the further resources water, salts, and the waste on top. The output is huge, you're talking a town of people powered, 10s of thousand, even on a smaller reactor. But there is that offset, costs, parts, resources, waste. There is also the lifetime where these mini reactors are supposedly only serviceable for around a decade. The first nuclear reactors are faster being replaced not even in a person's lifetime, what around 30 years, generously 50, but that's asking for lies. These newer reactors are using enriched fuels to generate their output. A much greater process.
Indeed there’s a huge cost now but there’s been no incentive for competition to bring the costs down. Wide scale adoption and multiple companies producing equipment would bring the cost down to end consumers. Cars were once a toy for the rich, now it’s a normal everyday item. We CAN produce small neighbourhood power generators and farm sized ones, right now it’s expensive but we could change that. You can’t put a hydro electric dam just anywhere. You can’t stick a windmill just anywhere for it to be cost effective or even to make it work most of the time. You can’t put a massive solar array and battery system just anywhere if you don’t have the room for it. But a power reactor scaled down to the size of a garden shed is possible. Less material so a critical fuck up doesn’t nuke the area just fucks over YOUR generator is possible. The powers that be don’t want us to be independent and self sustaining, they want all the control. Even if you and I sat down and made a profitable business plan to make and sell garden shed nuke generators we’d face unbelievable opposition so they keep all the control. It’s sad but it’s the world we’re used to.