With thermal power you need to spin turbines and the greater the volume of steam the less the frictional losses etc matter and the more you can extract with low pressure turbines etc. Also small nuclear plants are expensive anyway due to many things, for example the high temperatures that give you the performance you want. Theoretically, and often in practice, the price per MW drops a lot with scale.
Thus building huge - at least in terms of the amount of steam if not the actual reactor/s, is the only thing that makes sense if it's a civilian plant designed to generate electricity for sale. If it's a research reactor, powering a specific thing (like a ship), or a front for a weapons program then it doesn't need to be huge.

Compressed air also works in underwater balloons along the same lines as the salt mines as a cheaper alternative to pressure vessels. It's well paired with offshore wind.
Compressed air is a very lossy energy storage method but it's well tried and convenient.

Me obsessed? You are the one attaching onto threads without even reading the post you have replied to.

I am fully aware that turds such as yourself attach themselves to the bottoms of other people's posts and see it as some sort of victory if they get the last word. Why should I let you have that? String this out as long as you like and continue to make yourself look stupid and all I have to do is tell people to refer to your posting history to see exactly what a piece of shit you are - you think that's stalking? GROW UP and take some responsibility for your actions and be prepared for others to rub your nose in your expelled filth.
Once again - why the lecture for me pointing out a luddite science denier using a tired old page from the luddite playbook? All these posts and nothing but evasion and stupid mistakes.

Maybe you're made because I pointed out a mistake you've made?

Read that one :)
However I think it's time for you to stop using your daddies slashdot account for your mindless trolling.

I'm not stressed. Your posts have been hilarious and filled me with a smug sense of superiority over such an utter loser as yourself that cannot even keep track of simple threads that you are perpetuating yourself.

That would require real and strong AI. When we have the kind of npc AI you're talking about, we'll also be building real world Datas from Star Trek.

Not at all - still dumb as a toaster but just with a few more rules to match to simulate being good at one or two different things. It's a very contrived setting with very few things going on. Even, at an extreme, if something engages you in conversation there's very little to talk about so a small number of scripts covers all bases - that's your deluxe waffle setting :)

I doubt they will go back in. Nokia stuffed up massively

You missed a WAS in there - Nokia was stuffed up massively as a deliberate action.
There can hardly be anything more blatant than an MS guy leaving to do his first CEO gig in a major multinational with the world's largest market share in mobile phones, then transferring that multinational to MS products, running down the market share and company value, then going back to MS as they bought the diminished company. It was a blatant corporate raid even if it was done with the blessing of the board. People with no track record as a CEO do not get to run major multinationals unless there is some sort of game afoot and pressure on the board (or specifically extra weight in their wallets).
I feel sorry for the Trolltech guys that would have been better off in the long run if they hadn't joined up with Nokia. They would still be working on Qt if they were not removed as part of Elop's sabotage of Nokia to bring down the share price.

I thought you said we were "done"?

No I most definitely did not. You've probably got me mixed up with someone else you are trolling.
Come on now A.D.D. boy - answer the question. Why the lecture? Why do others have to be at a higher standard than you are demonstrating yourself?

Hey guys - check out the other posts from this troll. That "How else do you explain your need to respond" seems to be a common theme.
If it wasn't for his quote I'd write him off as a bored teen instead of a possible bitter middle aged man.

WTF? Conspiracy theory?
The Eliza "AI" program of the 1990s showed more apparent intelligent life than you are demonstrating here. At least it tried to appear to be relevant by quoting strings back at people instead of being totally random.

So - answer the question - why did you jump onto my post and give me a lecture without even reading my post? I'm not going to let such attempted petty bullying stand, it's peices of shit like you that give us all a bad name.

Another post devoid of any connection to the one above it. Why bother?
You still haven't told me why you chose to jump on to give me a lecture despite not actually reading more than the start of the post that was the target of your lecture. Are you the holder of both the narcc account and SuperKendall pretending to be an unrelated person? Are you the ten year old child of the actual owner of the narcc account? Is this some stupid Eliza script being run as a game? Either way, why do you feel that you are in a position where you are fit to lecture me when your own behaviour shows a distinct lack of maturity? Why should I roll over when some immature little shit attempts to bring me to task yet the little shit is in some way above criticism?

Good point. I forgot that so much was built before the kingdom was so large.

Out of curiosity, why do you call it an "ADD comment"?

Attention deficit disorder - as in rushing in to post something without reading beyond the first sentence, as hilariously revealed above when you showed you'd entirely missed the "benefit of the doubt" in the second sentence.

I think you really need imaginary foes to fight against to make yourself feel important

That fits your ridiculous behaviour of jumping on my comment without even reading beyond the first few words to deliver some sort of lecture. I suggest you let it go instead of indulging in such petty bullying in the hope that I have a low enough self esteem for such a comment to gain traction.

So let's have a bit of truth from you now - why did you jump in too swiftly to even read my comment when I was being critical of a luddite rolling out an old and tired argument from the luddite's playbook?

why do you continue to engage me?

I found your "epic fail" above somewhat amusing and wish to know more about the clown who wrote it.

I just didn't visit this site for a few days and then found your ridiculous ADD comment with condescending advice and I felt it was ridiculous enough to reply to. It may not satisfy your ego but that's the very simple reality.