Toshiba makes a personal Nuclear Reactor. Available in the US 2009(nextenergynews.com)
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Toshiba makes a personal Nuclear Reactor. Available in the US 2009
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.17b.html
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Apparently Toshiba is planning to pilot this (or something of the kind) in Galena, Alaska:
http://www.adn.com/front/story/4214182p-4226215c.html
http://www.kiyu.com/news1007_2.htm
http://www.adn.com/front/story/4214182p-4226215c.html
http://www.kiyu.com/news1007_2.htm
Is this a joke? Would you really feel comfortable with a nuclear reactor in your basement?
Here's the real issue:
How many people are employed by power companies and their related organizations? Thousands? Hundreds of Thousands? Millions? My guess is millions at least.
When all those people lose their jobs because everyone has their own power plant in their basement, it's going to make the depression look like a bull market!
This is the true cost of our way of life that most environmentalists have trouble admitting. The scale of change required would be revolutionary. It will hurt.
How many people are employed by power companies and their related organizations? Thousands? Hundreds of Thousands? Millions? My guess is millions at least.
When all those people lose their jobs because everyone has their own power plant in their basement, it's going to make the depression look like a bull market!
This is the true cost of our way of life that most environmentalists have trouble admitting. The scale of change required would be revolutionary. It will hurt.
You mean, just like all those Gatorade employees in the movie Idiocracy? :-)
But, its got what plants need !
(Brawno I think they called it).
(Brawno I think they called it).
lol, yeah, kind of like that I guess.
Please tell me that you are joking.
Joking about what?
$3000 says that regulatory hurdles are put up all over the place by governments before the first one gets installed. That will happen mainly for the same reason there are tons of regulatory hurdles in place for Hydrogen powered cars. There is a lot of power that will need to be shifted before this becomes a reality.
You can barely drive a segway on the sidewalk, you think you're going to be allowed to install a nuclear reactor in your basement?
$3000 says that regulatory hurdles are put up all over the place by governments before the first one gets installed. That will happen mainly for the same reason there are tons of regulatory hurdles in place for Hydrogen powered cars. There is a lot of power that will need to be shifted before this becomes a reality.
You can barely drive a segway on the sidewalk, you think you're going to be allowed to install a nuclear reactor in your basement?
Joking about the depression coming about because of a new technological invention.
Hmm, that wasn't my intent, but I can see how you read that.
I was looking at the depression from a social pov rather than economic, which made sense in my head at least.
Basically, the point is the kind of massive shift in power required here would need something many times more society altering than a depression to achieve anything meaningful.
I was looking at the depression from a social pov rather than economic, which made sense in my head at least.
Basically, the point is the kind of massive shift in power required here would need something many times more society altering than a depression to achieve anything meaningful.
But then you will need people to setup the new reactor, you will need salesmen, you will need technicians to run revisions. Probably not all places will be safer enough to hold a nuclear reactor, so probably the traditional grid will be still necessary... Think of it like a distributed power plant with a grid which still needs maintenance.
Of course, but for a certain period, those will be different people. That's massive change. People don't like change generally.
I'm not saying it shouldn't happen, or that it won't. All I'm saying is that the type of disaffection these types of changes create usually creates a short period of misery while the power (no pun there) is shifted to the new order.
Every technological change of this magnitude has resulted in political fallout. To suggest otherwise is hopelessly naive.
Not everyone is able to see this as opportunity - most will see it as a threat to the status quo they enjoy.
I'm not saying it shouldn't happen, or that it won't. All I'm saying is that the type of disaffection these types of changes create usually creates a short period of misery while the power (no pun there) is shifted to the new order.
Every technological change of this magnitude has resulted in political fallout. To suggest otherwise is hopelessly naive.
Not everyone is able to see this as opportunity - most will see it as a threat to the status quo they enjoy.
Don't forget the hackers and painters.
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I hope the owners never have to call the helpdesk!