Your backyard nuclear plant will be ready in five years
Energy crisis? What energy crisis? You’ll be laughing all night in your floodlit garden under the gaze of your jealous fossil-fuel using neighbours once you’ve got Hyperion’s clean, safe and portable[1] backyard nuclear reactor up and running!
Yes indeed; using good clean water as both moderator and coolant, the Hyperion reactor simply cannot become a runaway reaction, and the uranium hydride fuel is useless for making weapons with - so you’ll not get any politically-motivated sanctions imposed on you by coalitions of powerful nation-states!
The Hyperion reactor will start shipping in the summer of 2013, so start saving now! Or alternatively take out a loan based on the projected amount of energy you’ll be able to sell back to an increasingly desperate and expensive national grid - provided you can find a bank that’s guaranteed not to collapse[2], or a cooperative government administration to bail you out when the worst happens.
[ 1 - 2.5m tall concrete unit can be transported by most commercially-available heavy plant machinery. ]
[ 2 - You may want to consider researching financial institutions based in China or other Asian nations. ]
[Story originally found at grinding.be; image from Hyperion's website, and there's an interview with surprisingly lucid and woo-free Hyperion CEO; please note snarky tone of post is a form of gallows humour after an hour of wading through the day's news.]
September 26th, 2008 at 1:48 am
What kind of energy output is this expected to provide? Also is it April 1st?
September 26th, 2008 at 1:57 am
From Hyperion’s website:
Looks pretty genuine, though a lot can happen in five years.
September 27th, 2008 at 1:44 am
That is absolutly brilliant. I look forward to hearing more about it as time goes on.
September 28th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
nuclear energy for civil purposes is really good and this idea i am sure can help in coping up of energy crisis..
September 29th, 2008 at 9:57 am
So, how can I convince my anti-nuke hippie neighbors in Santa Monica that this would be an excellent thing for our city? Five of these and we’re set.