[TML] [Merchant Shipping] Some ideas I came up with to make merchant shipping more interesing

[Timothy Little]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:05:52AM -0400, Tom B wrote:
> In heavy urbanization, you may have a *lot* of larger plants. So the
> runs might not be that long to any particular place you'd need to
> power.

Err, what do you mean by "larger plants"?  The typical sizes of plants
I'm assuming are on the order of a hundred MW or so, probably about
the size of a small apartment, and costing on the order of 1-2 MCr.
Actually very close in many ways to the suburban telephone exchanges
here.

Sure there may be links to other reactors in nearby areas for
redundancy and load-balancing, but I don't see any reason at all for
any longer-range links.

I'm not talking about microgeneration with each house having its own
plant.  Although, a large office building or apartment complex
possibly would.  A large industrial complex certainly would.


- Tim