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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by amonon on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @11:53AM (#41368908)
I am uniformed on this, but those industries likely take time to scale up. A large scale desalination plant requires a significant amount of infrastructure.
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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by ViewTrick1002 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @11:59AM (#41368971)
The question is also: Where are you building it?

No one will want anything from your desalination plant in Norway, and shipping water is not a thing because it becomes too expensive.

The next problem is energy cost vs. duty cycle. The less you run due to only utilizing cheap prices the higher the impact of fixed costs on your business.

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Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a... by mrguyorama on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:30PM (#41371058)
>shipping water is not a thing because it becomes too expensive.

Except for a significant portion of the GDP of Fiji

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