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Re:U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants on the moon, Mars by maxerickson on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:18AM (#23956858)
Seems to make sense for capacity planning. The considerable daily and seasonal variation in use argues in favor of using the aggregate rather than expressing it as an average.
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Re:U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants on the moon, Mars by throw0101a on Sunday July 26, 2020 @09:41AM (#23956983)
If you're doing capacity planning, wouldn't you have to plan for the peaks? (Kind of like highways and rush hour.)
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Re:U.S. eyes building nuclear power plants on the moon, Mars by maxerickson on Sunday July 26, 2020 @10:01AM (#23957104)
For the moon, I'd plan on batteries being used to meet demand peaks (like we are starting to do here).
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