("Gig 601XL Builder" wrote)
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.


I almost completely agree with you too.

Still SMALLER though! Not city by city, but smaller (think KFC or Taco Bell
size).

Single large users would each have one - Twin Cities Ford Assembly Plant
would have one - if they didn't already have a power-producing dam on the
Mississippi River. Bio-Diesel/Ethanol plants would have one. Steel plant
gets one. Mall of America would have a McNuke Plant. Etc, etc.

Twin Cities (50 miles x 50 miles) might have approx. 20 or 30 of these
things humming along. Also, no 'line loss' is not an insignificant gain to
factor in - with my McNuke Plant (MacArthur Fellows 'genius grant') plan.

Maybe I've only taken a bite out of 20% of the need for juice in the Twin
Cities, but it's a 20% that wasn't there yesterday.

IMHO, it's easier to keep a handle on construction costs when the
cookie-cutter plants are so small (tiny) ...and private industry is buying
the darn things.


Montblack