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Reply With QuoteLet's make a ton of them and put them in our cars. When the softball size waste is generated we can play softball with it.
Machiavelli Incarnate
Hyperion Signs First Customer for Nuclear Pods Earth2Tech
Hyperion Signs First Customer for Nuclear Pods
A lot of the responses to our posts on startup Hyperion Power Generation and its nuclear-in-a-box solution have questioned whether this is a serious solution or not. Well, folks, the company says it has signed up its first customer, TES Group, which it says is an investment company focusing on the energy sector in Central Eastern Europe.
We’re not familiar with TES’s investments, but the company has supposedly signed a “Letter of Intent” to purchase six Hyperion nuclear modules, which each cost roughly $25 million. Hyperion says the initial purchase could lead the way to a larger purchase of 50 nuclear devices — so that would be a massive purchase of $1.25 billion. The devices won’t be ready until 2013, so everyone has plenty of time to hash out all the inevitable regulatory and safety issues. (Anyone with more info on TES, let us know).
We had a lengthy phone conversation last week with Hyperion CEO John “Grizz” Deal, who said “this is not science fiction.” Deal defended his product and said the devices are very safe and will meet the important needs of developing nations that don’t have connections to a central electric grid. Deal said the nuclear devices are safer than traditional nuclear reactors because they don’t have moving parts and are more like a “nuclear battery.” The device also produces waste, “the size of a softball,” after five to seven years of use, Deal says.
The advantages of the modules are that it is cheaper, easier to deploy, quicker to get built and can reach remote areas where traditional reactors can’t be built. And this tech isn’t just nuclear pie in the sky: Other companies, like Toshiba, are also working on this type of technology, and Hyperion is backed by Altira Group, which has invested in GridPoint and Southwest Wind Power.
Though, Deal readily admits there are hurdles, from public perception to logistics, ahead for the technology: “This is idealistic, we’re the first to admit that.”
"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you." -- Billy Wilder
"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." -- Otto Von Bismark
Let's make a ton of them and put them in our cars. When the softball size waste is generated we can play softball with it.
Machiavelli Incarnate
See this for a list of at least a dozen designs for small portable reactors:
Small Nuclear Power Reactors
My guess is that the people who are most vocal for nuclear are the least likely to support a real commitment to such an approach even if it was really cheap compared to say a similar natgas cogen power plant because the ability to export to the world like is currently done with the cogen plants is absolutely necessary. Iran would likely be a big customer, but that would be the first of at least one hundred nations the free traders would say can't have free trade.
Machiavelli Incarnate
[QUOTE=mulp;544684]See this for a list of at least a dozen designs for small portable reactors:
Small Nuclear Power Reactors
My guess is that the people who are most vocal for nuclear are the least likely to support a real commitment to such an approach even if it was really cheap compared to say a similar natgas cogen power plant because the ability to export to the world like is currently done with the cogen plants is absolutely necessary. Iran would likely be a big customer, but that would be the first of at least one hundred nations the free traders would say can't have free trade.[/QUOTE]
Well, I'm not a huge proponent of nuclear energy, but with care it can be reasonably safe.
I like the "silver buckshot" approach, it makes the most sense of any proposal I have seen lately.
Good link...
"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you." -- Billy Wilder
"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." -- Otto Von Bismark
Nuclear is the way to go. Heckler seems to favor wind since he generates so much of it.
Machiavelli Incarnate
So you have reading comprehension problems along with your other challenges.Originally Posted by Bonny Solder
Sorry to hear that pal....
"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you." -- Billy Wilder
"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." -- Otto Von Bismark
Read well enough to get my MBA.
Machiavelli Incarnate
Well....you blew right past this without comprehending:
"Well, I'm not a huge proponent of nuclear energy, but with care it can be reasonably safe.
I like the "silver buckshot" approach, it makes the most sense of any proposal I have seen lately. "
he he he.....
Is your MBA from one of those spam email places?
"If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you." -- Billy Wilder
"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied." -- Otto Von Bismark
Machiavelli Incarnate
The waste most likely could be reprocessed and used over again.
Machiavelli Incarnate
LOL, you actually think an MBA is something that signifies your intelligence.
I have one of them too, big whoppie.
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