Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Solar/renewables, though in your OP, weren't in my thought process at all. Sure, those things are huge... But the two school bus sizing will ultimately become more like 20 (granted that's still quite small), when things are said and done. As someone who is an active participant in power and energy research, it's highly annoying when people pushing their wares don't tell the whole story.
On the other side,,I'm still not sure that the turnip/down speeds of these devices are really fast enough for widespread renewables. But evidence one way or another must still be generated...
Certainly, I think the schoolbus sizing is just the reactor itself, not the total footprint but I see how that could be misleading.
And yes, I know you didn't mention the renewables, I brought them up just for the sake of comparing the size occupied by the facility. That is, in a way, another example of what you speak. Talking about area per KW of installed capacity, it often isn't brought up when discussing wind/solar, and if it is, it often again isn't mentioned in terms of actual output relative to a typical turbine and instead nameplate is used because it sounds/looks better.