"Montblack" wrote in message
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("Sylvain" wrote)
then could it still have a practical use as a means of storing
energy instead? I mean, producing ethanol using the output of
say nuclear plants (ok, replace that with wind mills or whatever
takes your fancy if 'nuclear' is against your religion); it was
my (probably mistaken) understanding that the output of a nuclear
plant could not easily be throttled up or down...


100% my idea also.

About NP being throttled up or down:
First: STOP trying to replace the Hoover Dam with each Nuclear Power plant
built! (Had to say that)

Each ethanol plant would have two small (tiny tiny tiny) McNuke Plants.
Tiny! If one is down, the other one chugs along.


I agree completely, almost. Use the McNukes for electrical generation on a
city by city basis. We have the ability to build very small, very efficient
reactors. We do it all the time and if you live near a Naval base there is
one or more floating out there in the harbor.

Stop using fossil fuels for electric power and all that oil in the ground IN
THE US will last many many lifetimes.