For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;
Tennyson
Today's wonder is FlexBlue , a concept based on nuclear submarine technology where a small self-contained power plant of 50 to 250 MW could be shipped to the required site and placed on the ocean bed and cabled to shore . Because of the amount of water available reactor meltdown could not happen. Distributed power systems like this make sense as transmission expense is a large part of modern electricity system costs , which will be minimised by placing the generator near the load.
The Greenies will go beserk if this comes to fruition!
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