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0 pointsaperson_hello3y ago0 comments

The 60MW seems a bit more antithetical to home design than the height! That's a not-small amount of power.

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plasticchris3y ago· 2 in thread

No but it sounds about right to supply a large parking garage (or three!) of charging EVs.

Average American drives 14,263 miles per year. Tesla Model 3 consumes 0.27 kWh/mi. Average American driving a Tesla uses 3851.01 kWh / year.

60MW reactor produces 525,600,000 kWh / year.

So a single NuScale reactor could power a garage with 136,483 electric cars.

plasticchris3y ago

Sure, but there are a couple of things to consider like peak consumption (everyone gets home from work and plugs in) or potentially much better utilization of electric vehicles from av adoption which might happen in the timeframes needed to get this tech out.

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titzer3y ago

Those dogecoins aren't going to mine themselves.

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