Wiki update discussion thread

[LynnInDenver]

So the roughrider produce more than half the nuclear energy the whole Earth produced in 2012? Sorry, I think you added a few too many zeros.

(According to this, 2012 Earth had a total nuclear generation of 370 GW).

Remember, though, we have the Whole Fenspace Catalog, and Handwavium.... ramping up that much by 2016-2018 should be reasonably easy (for a given tech curve, anyway). Although it's going to take a major player/faction to get up there, if only because significant resources still have to be tossed at it.

Plus, actual generation capacity doesn't have to be that large... storage capacity for a fixed installation can be massive. Massive enough some might question the sanity of maintaining that large a capacity in view of the potential for cookoff... but if the defenses are penetrated in a way that causes that incident, the cookoff is actually among the least of your concerns.
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