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John Mercier · 12-09-2023, 02:50 PM

There were cost overruns building the first reactor, so the second... I believe... is available to be finished off and activated should the first be shuttered.

The transmission infrastructure can handle the output generated one at a time.

But since we are no longer building transmission, the second would not even be considered until the first was in the process of being decommissioned, and then the owner of record at that time would consider the financials of outfitting number two and placing it into operation.

Number One had to be subsidized because the cost of NG generation was so low and the thermal efficiency was so high.

We also have some smaller generation sites left over due to the decision not to expand the subsidies to biomass generation. Biomass, unfortunately, directly competes with the concept of wood and pellet stove fuel; the government chose to subsidize those instead of burning the biomass for electricity. The State subsidizing one format (electric generation) and the federal government subsidizing the other (Inflation Reduction Act) was an incoherent strategy.

But we are not going to stop India, or even ourselves... it is really more a matter of adapting to the change.
The change being exponential rather than arithmetic is a challenge, but it is a challenge we don't get a choice to avoid.

rsmlp · 12-09-2023, 05:08 PM

I wouldn't want to own a ski resort...at least on margin!

John Mercier · 12-09-2023, 11:37 PM

Almost all of them can make snow...

The data isn't that it doesn't fall below freezing ever.

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rsmlp Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 475 Thanks: 5 Thanked 164 Times in 84 Posts	here's what I know I wouldn't want to own a ski resort...at least on margin!

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John Mercier Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2021 Posts: 3,448 Thanks: 3 Thanked 607 Times in 501 Posts	There were cost overruns building the first reactor, so the second... I believe... is available to be finished off and activated should the first be shuttered. The transmission infrastructure can handle the output generated one at a time. But since we are no longer building transmission, the second would not even be considered until the first was in the process of being decommissioned, and then the owner of record at that time would consider the financials of outfitting number two and placing it into operation. Number One had to be subsidized because the cost of NG generation was so low and the thermal efficiency was so high. We also have some smaller generation sites left over due to the decision not to expand the subsidies to biomass generation. Biomass, unfortunately, directly competes with the concept of wood and pellet stove fuel; the government chose to subsidize those instead of burning the biomass for electricity. The State subsidizing one format (electric generation) and the federal government subsidizing the other (Inflation Reduction Act) was an incoherent strategy. But we are not going to stop India, or even ourselves... it is really more a matter of adapting to the change. The change being exponential rather than arithmetic is a challenge, but it is a challenge we don't get a choice to avoid.

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John Mercier Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2021 Posts: 3,448 Thanks: 3 Thanked 607 Times in 501 Posts	Almost all of them can make snow... The data isn't that it doesn't fall below freezing ever.