Power Plant in Your Backyard?

If someone would build a small enough mini nuke plant, I would be first in line to buy one for my back yard. I do not care to live anywhere near a coal or diesel fired plant, nor a wind generator. Solar panels I can live with, as long as you don't destroy my garden to install enough of them- and I'm not too keen on having a large bank of batteries sitting around...

give me a Bloom Box.. Give me one NOW!!!

Pebble-bed reactors are pritty safe, if it ever became practicle on a residential scale, yes I would.

However, before that happens we will get solar panels making hydrogen to be stored in some titanium sponge material and run thru a fuel cell at night.

Pv solar is real close to grid pairity now so give it a couple of years and problem solved.

I remember a small nuk power plant being offered back in the 80's, it even came with a 10,000 foot extension cord...... If such a unit was offered and pricing was competive to current utiliy rates, I'd jump at it. That would be better then solar because if you moved, you could take it with you.

Solar is great, too bad the pricing is still too high. As the price of solar cells comes down, government & township regulations goes up with a net gain of zero. Pay someone to install them and you get tax incentives. Do it yourself, you save on installation costs but loose government savings.... and 20 year payback....