I am talking about ambition, scale and the courage to be at the front of the pack, not hanging back and waiting to see what might be popular, what others might do, it is about forging a way forward ahead of current thinking with ambitions and aspirations beyond those of the current trends.. “The ability of an individual or a group of people to influence organisations and society.“.
These pressing needs are making self-generation and nuclear a more likely option.. Fusion as well as fission is being discussed, but what is a realistic timescale?.The group felt that DCs need to be part of regional, city, utility, industrial and energy strategies.
Joined up thinking may improve the situation and help to find a path forward..Discussion in the room moved to nuclear self-generation for a while and how far we are away from viable small nuclear power self-generation.The modular size of small nuclear is critical.
Due to the need for power resilience, sites would need to have some arrangement of N+1 power units – if each unit is too large then the investment costs would be simply too high.The modularity of SMRs and suitability to support DC loads will be important.. Licencing and regulation of nuclear power.
Small modular reactors are looking to address some of the licensing and regulation issues with repeatable modular design.. Based upon conversations and work with the small nuclear development ecosystem, there was a stated view that an industrialised modular nuclear offering is 20 years in the future.
This view is in stark contrast to some who believe we will see offerings in three to five years.The data set developed by the Hub could be expanded (‘upwards’ from spaces into assets and complexes and ‘downwards’ into sub-assemblies and products) to create a holistic data set that would allow suppliers to carry out their own analysis and forecasting.. Where better to publish this data than on a digital marketplace?.
Searching the data for ‘SL_90_10_47 Lifts’ would show the exact number of lifts in the five-year pipeline and allow government to place contracts for the manufacture, installation and assembly of bulk orders of lifts, creating economies of scale;.Open sourcing this data set would then allow third parties to develop their own goods and services (in exactly the way that open source data published by Transport for London, OpenStreetMaps and others has allowed the creation of common apps such as Citymapper, Bus Checker and Waze).
This could create a new ecosystem of apps and tools that could sit alongside e-commerce to help clients, designers and manufacturers;.Longer term digital transformation.. Last year, I wrote a. piece on a future state for Platforms.
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