Re:Activists who embrace nuclear power
by EricE on Monday February 22, 2021 @02:19PM
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>If your grid covers a large region
Like a belt of solar panels around the equator? Works for Dyson Sphere Program but that's a game. As big as the US is, for CONUS the entire continent is in the dark for significant portions of the day. It doesn't get more intermittent than that!
> and you have sufficient transmission,
Well duh. And assuming zero transmission loss. Or enough resources to overcome transmission loss and still be economically viable.
Like a belt of solar panels around the equator? Works for Dyson Sphere Program but that's a game. As big as the US is, for CONUS the entire continent is in the dark for significant portions of the day. It doesn't get more intermittent than that!
> and you have sufficient transmission,
Well duh. And assuming zero transmission loss. Or enough resources to overcome transmission loss and still be economically viable.
Quite a bit of hand waving there.