Reply to post: Re: What about the operational costs?

Re: What about the operational costs?

"If you put 40 individual SMRs in separate locations, then you have a lot more operational cost - not necessarily 40 times, but still substantially more. In return, all you save is the relatively minor cost of grid transmission. "

First problem is that transmission: The grid needs to be upgraded to carry the extra power that's being demanded by these data centres. It's the current bottleneck and adding 1 or 10 or 100 SMR's won't help if the grid can't carry the extra power.

So having the power generation at the point of demand, with any extra being fed into the grid does seem like a serious option. Certainly it's more viable than trying to generate all the power needed by the site from renewables on site: While it would be nice, that's a lot of turbines and a need for a lot of battery storage.

Now, if the SMR's got small enough and were safe enough to be fitted into lorries, or vans, or cars...

... next would be power suits... like the T45 and T60...or the X01...