@swoop aside from edge-cases like icebreakers and military submarines I sincerely dount that.

• And even those are a problem: Atomflot can only keep itself afloat due to beibg contracted from the west for icebreaking duties and submarines are useless outside of military and scientific nieches.

As shitty as it sounds: $700M will buy you more than 1000 MWe in Wind + 1000MWe Geothermal in a remite region like #McMurdo.

• The only reason they've not done #Geothermal yet is due to #envoirmental studies and the problem of where to dump excess brine from the bore hole…