Reply To: General thought on old coal mines.

[Brian H]

Tulse wrote:

At $50 million per 25MW electric output, it is only 20-40X as expensive as FF.

… But in the competitive space, Hyperion is a similarly-sized solution, and will be to market much more quickly.
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The size of the reactor core is about a refrigerator’s, but the associated Carnot-steam-cycle stuff is still pretty massive:
http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/product.html

And I’m not sure it will be “much” more quickly. I doubt any will have been installed before 2-3 years, and the first ones will be hand-assembled. It will take some time to set up an industrial manufacturing process. The company estimates a potential installation base potential of about 4,000 for this first module design. It would likely be about 10 years, earliest, before that would be possible. By that time, FF will be up and running. There may still be niches for Hyperion-type solutions (that the unit would be sealed for its life cycle, not requiring refueling or servicing would be one definite advantage), but as for a mass-market replacement for general electrical power services, it doesn’t even rank as a speck on a fly on the elephant’s butt. :cheese: IMO

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