Add a Casino and Bob's Your Uncle

I've been rather fond of the nukes planted at the bottom of bays idea.  They obviously will never have a cooling problem.  If you could plant them over tectonic plates, you could solve the waste disposal too.  It's all so perfect. 

Perhaps the energy experts in South Africa should look at how fast California was able to rapidly and dramatically shed baseload demands (with no new plants) by changes in their rates and focusing on conservation shortly after their own "energy crisis".  I know, that's just too easy.

Russian-Made Floating Nuclear Power Plants Could Be Offered to Ease SA Tightness - Engineering News ZA - 01 Feb 08

"There is no way to add to the country’s generation capacity in the short term. Even co-generation projects – joint ventures between Eskom and private sector companies to build smaller, gas-fuelled, power stations to help meet peak power demands – are unlikely to come into service before 2012.

However, in Russia, the first FNPP is currently under construction, a process that was started in 2006 and will be completed in 2010. The builder is Sevmash, the main division of Russia’s State Nuclear Shipbuilding Centre, and the first will actually be moored at Sevmash and will provide power for the company’s facilities, for the local social infrastructure, and will also generate heat and desalinate water."

Just Shut Them Down? - Exchange - The Nation - 08 Nov 2001

"Lovins says California--already one of the most efficient states in the nation--was able to drop its electricity consumption by from 12-14 percent this summer through conservation and/or efficiency efforts so burden-free that few are even commenting on them."

Add a Casino and Bob's Your Uncle

I've been rather fond of the nukes planted at the bottom of bays idea.  They obviously will never have a cooling problem.  If you could plant them over tectonic plates, you could solve the waste disposal too.  It's all so perfect. 

Perhaps the energy experts in South Africa should look at how fast California was able to rapidly and dramatically shed baseload demands (with no new plants) by changes in their rates and focusing on conservation shortly after their own "energy crisis".  I know, that's just too easy.

Russian-Made Floating Nuclear Power Plants Could Be Offered to Ease SA Tightness - Engineering News ZA - 01 Feb 08

"There is no way to add to the country’s generation capacity in the short term. Even co-generation projects – joint ventures between Eskom and private sector companies to build smaller, gas-fuelled, power stations to help meet peak power demands – are unlikely to come into service before 2012.

However, in Russia, the first FNPP is currently under construction, a process that was started in 2006 and will be completed in 2010. The builder is Sevmash, the main division of Russia’s State Nuclear Shipbuilding Centre, and the first will actually be moored at Sevmash and will provide power for the company’s facilities, for the local social infrastructure, and will also generate heat and desalinate water."

Just Shut Them Down? - Exchange - The Nation - 08 Nov 2001

"Lovins says California--already one of the most efficient states in the nation--was able to drop its electricity consumption by from 12-14 percent this summer through conservation and/or efficiency efforts so burden-free that few are even commenting on them."