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tycho102 · 02-07-07, 02:37 PM

I wasn't thinking clearly. Ok. That link I have up above is in gigawatts. Million kilowatt hours. So, that comes out to about 400GW. America requires about 400GW of electrical power production, and consumes 3.8 Petawatt hours (10^15).

Texas pays for itself, even though it is the largest user (37GW) -- 1/4 of that is probably walmart. California would need 30GW plus desalination so they could stop drawing water from the Colorado. Far as I can tell, Los Angeles uses 6.6 million gallons per day, which would take maybe 100MW to generate and another 5MW to pump around the hellhole (tricounty). New York would need 16.5GW for electrical. My state would take almost 6GW.

We have something like 102 total production reactors right now, in the United States. Some of these are operating at 102% capacity because during the turn-arounds they have been able to install more efficient turbines and pumps and run the reactor a bit hotter. However, all these plants are 35 years old with life expectancies of 40-50 years. We have another 35 plants that are in various states decommissioning, and the north east power grid is currently the one strained.

02-07-07, 02:37 PM	#32
tycho102 Ace of the Deep Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 1,100 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I wasn't thinking clearly. Ok. That link I have up above is in gigawatts. Million kilowatt hours. So, that comes out to about 400GW. America requires about 400GW of electrical power production, and consumes 3.8 Petawatt hours (10^15). Texas pays for itself, even though it is the largest user (37GW) -- 1/4 of that is probably walmart. California would need 30GW plus desalination so they could stop drawing water from the Colorado. Far as I can tell, Los Angeles uses 6.6 million gallons per day, which would take maybe 100MW to generate and another 5MW to pump around the hellhole (tricounty). New York would need 16.5GW for electrical. My state would take almost 6GW. We have something like 102 total production reactors right now, in the United States. Some of these are operating at 102% capacity because during the turn-arounds they have been able to install more efficient turbines and pumps and run the reactor a bit hotter. However, all these plants are 35 years old with life expectancies of 40-50 years. We have another 35 plants that are in various states decommissioning, and the north east power grid is currently the one strained.