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

[Evyn MacDude]

On  Apr16 08, at 06:48, Tom B wrote:

> So, if we just eyeball 1K kWh per household as consumption, how many
> homes would our 200 MW plant service? One might assume 100-200 homes I
> think. If the homes were higher tech and hence probably more energy
> efficient, one might assume a greater rate, perhaps double, triple or
> quadruple that. Businesses, of course, are a whole other matter.
>
> So 200 MW might support reasonably 200 homes. That is neighborhood
> generation, but not true microgeneration.

Your numbers are off by about an order of magnitude, should around 2000
households.

> But this ignores one reality: Possible issues of
> security/terrorism/threat posed by having nuclear plants all over the
> place.

You mean like the current situation here in the US?

> But do hundred GW plants have better efficiency than hundred MW
> plants?

Yes, and no, really depends on the efficiency of transmission and  
production.
And the type of energy being converted to electricity.

Evyn MacDude
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