kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: #Ukraine currently lacks the 9 000 MW of power reserves needed before winter because ...
#Ukraine currently lacks the 9 000 MW of power reserves needed before winter because #Russia has recognised that attacks on power stations are an effective method of harassing the population and economy of the country under attack.
It may be unpopular what I’m about to write, but this type of risk could be prevented by a fleet of 50-100 mobile SMRs (small #nuclear reactors), 100-200 MW each, transported by rail or on trucks, such as the reactor of the ‘ATGOR’ project shown below.
The only problem is that the current leader of the work in this direction is … Russian research institutes while the EU and the USA are at the stage of getting excited about investing in glass panels and large stationary windmills, whose energy density (2-7 W/m2) would require 15’000 km2 to be tightly covered with them, not even guaranteeing 24/7 supply.
Plus, the latter can be damaged by wind, hail or snow, and 85% of the supply chain for their production is controlled by a single country, which happens to be Russia’s ally…
It may be unpopular what I’m about to write, but this type of risk could be prevented by a fleet of 50-100 mobile SMRs (small #nuclear reactors), 100-200 MW each, transported by rail or on trucks, such as the reactor of the ‘ATGOR’ project shown below.
The only problem is that the current leader of the work in this direction is … Russian research institutes while the EU and the USA are at the stage of getting excited about investing in glass panels and large stationary windmills, whose energy density (2-7 W/m2) would require 15’000 km2 to be tightly covered with them, not even guaranteeing 24/7 supply.
Plus, the latter can be damaged by wind, hail or snow, and 85% of the supply chain for their production is controlled by a single country, which happens to be Russia’s ally…