highwaystar101 said:
That was one thing I thought about, a power plant has to keep up a certain consistency of power output. A rise in meat sales would mean that they would source their meat from elsewhere. But I don't think that there is much of a chance of that happening as long as they have to adhere to regulation of spoiled meat only and take a role as only a secondary station. |
Honestly it depends. There are two types of power plants.
Baseline Power Plants - These power plants provide a "baseline" amount of power. As much as is estimated at minimium would be needed.
These are your bread and butter. The type that are usually Coal or Nuclear... because they're cheap.
Peak Power Plants - These kick in when power use rises past the baseline. This is where this kind of plant would be perfect. Peak Power Plants don't operate all day. Sometimes they don't even operate every day. These are usually like natural gas... stuff like that.
Additionally you have a chance for a third kind of power plant.
A charitable one. You get the government to build a couple. Run them as non-profits, pick up donated spoiled meet and have them supply cheap energy to the grid.
Then with that cheap energy you give breaks to lower income families. Charging "cost" for the energy provided. This could really only be done in power grids where Peak power plants are used daily or weekly... but it'd work well if you have the kind of government that could do it efficently.
