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Re:Inside Bill’s Brain by Scoundreller on Saturday September 21, 2019 @01:22PM (#21036611)
> It’s unfortunate that they were ready to build the TerraPower pilot nuclear plant in China and the recent trade war prevented it.

In the interim, I’m hoping for cheap micro gas turbines.

Burning natural gas just for heat is senseless when I could generate all my electricity with its combustion too seems like such a waste.

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Re:Inside Bill’s Brain by BubRoss on Saturday September 21, 2019 @01:43PM (#21036761)
I'm now surprised I have never thought about that. What is the reason this isn't common?
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Re:Inside Bill’s Brain by Scoundreller on Saturday September 21, 2019 @02:04PM (#21036873)
It's been increasingly scaled down. But not quite to the point of being done residentially.

Places like hospitals have installed multi-megawatt turbines because it saves them the cost of standby backup generators, instead they can use the grid as backup for their internal generation.

https://www.toromontpowersystems.com/electric-power/products...

Also, heating loads residentially may be bigger than electric loads, but grid-intertie system can resolve that.

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