Comment by exabrial
2 months ago
> announcing Superpower, our new 42‑megawatt natural gas turbine
Is global warming solved? Last time I checked, I was to throw away my repairable ICE vehicle for an expensive unrepairable disposable vehicle in order to save the planet. Just curious how a 42-megawatt gas turbine is helping the planet.
A 2 GW DC only needs 48 of those things. About 11.5M tons of CO₂ per year. It’s always on full blast so everything must be calculated 100%.
A new Civic going 8,000 miles a years at will produce 2.4 tons. So yeah one new DC is 4,700 cars. Which you’re supposed to replace with electric cars that will be fed with a non-existent power source, which means apparently even more gas turbine power plants.
Most assumptions about renewables don’t account for continuous 24/7 loads. Stuff like storage doesn’t help with that. I have noticed very little talk about AI DCs varying their loads to match renewable generation from solar/wind.
You missed the iron law of the universe, which is never get between a capitalist and the possibility of a bucket of money.