I was considering suburban systems, because that is were I live. Hypothetically, I have a (coal, gas, or nuclear) 500 MW plant which generates a $1 million a day. The thing is paid for and you come along with a fusion generator. It has a lot of cost saving and money generating advantages. I need to spend
$30 million to replace that unit (plus I have to get permits, buy land, construct a building for it, and a new (suburban) distribution station at each location. Suddenly, my cost has gone up,
300K per reactor
100 -200K per lot land purchase
50K Building a house for the reactor
??? Distribution for 1500 homes
20K for Permits etc (not sure)
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600,000 each approximately. My cost has doubled
I still have to purchase ten units to replace the one. A normal capitalist would say, “screw the extra cost of multiple units in multiple places. I will just gang them up in one place and save the bucks. I also don’t have to worry about them in multiple places.” Remember, they play by their own rules. You can’t assume they will gravitate to a distributive network, just because it is the right thing to do. They also hate it when other people “tell” them how it should be done. (I’m just playing the devil’s advocate.) Thinking though capitalist tendencies requires painful brain mechanisms and sometimes it hurts. 😉

Also, in an urban setting you could house them in office tower basements. You wouldn’t need to use the current distribution networks. The electricity would back feed out of each tower into nearby towers or they could sell excess to each other. Those dang capitalists 🙂