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  There are two new ones being built in GA right now. Way over budget and behind schedule, but they will be online soon.
context: This is progress. I was beginning to believe that SMRs were going to be like Fusion Power - always 30 years from being a reality. 
  Now let's see one of them generating power for public consumption, so we can have a little more hope for our planet and ourselves. >
  
  Like other new technologies we'll probably use it for porn or sex first. >
  
  Do not insert the spicy rod! >
  
  If your rod is spicy, speak to your doctor about treatment options. >
  
  "If you experience a reaction that lasts more than four hours... congratulations!" >
  
  You fucking beat me to the four hours joke, good job >
  
  Sorry! But "reaction" sounds so similar to "erection" it pretty much just wrote itself. >
  
  Just for context here, 50 megawatts is enough to power between 35,000 and 50,000 average homes, depending on usage and need. (For example, homes running full electric instead of gas/electric will use more; homes where A/C is in more continuous use will use more; smaller homes and more efficient homes will use less.) >
  
  50,000,000/35,000 works out to 1,428w per household? If so that’s just one 15amp outlet per household - a single toaster oven. >
  
  I have equipment that provides real-time and historical electrical usage for our house so the numbers I am quoting are a real use case...
  Our house is above average for our area in size (\~2800 sqft, 5 years old) and ranges from 800-1500 kWh per month depending on the time of year (winter and summer are the highest due to HVAC).  Rounding, that puts our average instantaneous usage between 1-2 kW (the average for all last year was \~1.650 kW).  During the winter storm around Christmas, my usage peaked at 24kW (electrical-only heating and temperatures below zero for multiple days).  Last night, while we were sleeping, the usage was \~400 W. >
  
  Geothermal heat pumps need to be made the norm for new housing. >
  
  I’m very pro geothermal heat pump but individual economics/geographic constraints are some of the reasons while wide scale deployment today is not possible.
  It’s a no brainer when you ignore economics.  But is someone really going to want to pay an extra $20k+ on a $200k home for geothermal if they are already strapped with cash?  It’s easy to look down on people and say they should do this or that when you are in a better financial situation then they are.  Driving home prices up by situating technology without major price breaks is going to make the wealth divide even worse.  Similar reasons are why you will not see gas cars go away for the next few decades if not 50+ years.
  My area contains heavy limestone less than 10 ft under the ground.  In addition, homes are typically only spaced out 10-20 ft from each other.  Head 20 miles outside the city and implementing geothermal would be much easier.
  The further north you get, the more geothermal can make sense.  You are not going to find many in South Florida installing geothermal. >
  
  We're wanting to replace propane furnaces with geothermal and good lord is it expensive. We'll be saving for a while. >
  
  Yep.  I have a co-worker in upstate NY who was looking into replacing his aging furnaces with geothermal and had sticker shock when he got a few quotes back. >
  
  Cool. We can now power our RTX 4090 cards properly. >
  
  I love the design for the floating modular systems that can set up as a bank off shore.
  Built in cooling and very safe out of the way of humans.
  By FAR the safest way to produce energy for human use. >
  
  How do they handle extreme weather, like hurricanes? >
  
  Would be fine. The reactor itself you put in basically an in ground swimming pool, This cools it and also provides protection from earthquakes.
  Florida has a shitload of pools, and gets hurricanes. For this to be a problem the pool would need the hurricane to drain it, and since most hurricane damage is flooding, its basically doing the opposite.
  A tornado is fine as the top of the pool is a cement slab, go look at videos of houses getting wrecked, house and everything is destroyed / missing the slab is still a perfectly happy concrete slab. >
  
  You're saying that the thing you want to build in the ocean will be fine in bad weather because things built in the ground are fine in bad weather. That is a complete false equivalency. >
  
  I never said in the ocean. >
  
  Then you replied to the wrong comment, because that's what the question was about. >
  
  This is big news. Few countries can afford a big type of nuclear powerplant, and nobody wants intermittency problems caused by FULLY relying on renewables. This is perfect! >
  
  At a low enough price it could be use to power container ships. >
  
  Yeeesss, finally seeing some movement on this front. >
  
  We’ve had nuclear powered subs for a long time. Why is this technology so difficult to make cheaper, safer, and more reliable? >
  
  Because there was a policy that restricted any new nuclear plants being constructed in the US. And I think that also included any renovations to existing plants as well. I believe it was Carter who did that.
  Edit: Realized I’m wrong about this.