Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice

Zeoic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fracking methane should be excluded. It’s 80 times worse for the environment than even CO2.

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• humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They undersell the benefits of renewables significantly overall. This is for UK which they come out with slightly lower costs for omitting solar. They also say 5 years to build a 120mw microgrid. 1 post driller, 1 crane for support posts, with 2 workers guiding post insertion and cleaning up, 1 “wall of panels” crane lifter, with 3 workers aligning connecting panels on the ground, and then connecting wall to posts can get 40kw/hour=320kw/day. Complete in little over a year. But, in solar, 9 crews can really make a baby in 1 month.

  Microgrids don’t need permits, and utilities will give them an import connection.

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s pathetic propaganda. You know what’s even cheaper? Coal! Or just going 100% gas! So if it’s really about cost then the answer is zero renewables.

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  • SolacefromSilence@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Coal is more expensive, it's not the 90's anymore.

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    NG newbuild in UK is not cheaper than wind. Unless NG is extremely cheap due to no one using it anymore, and there are abundant supply options.

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Onshore wind is the cheapest electricity in the UK, by far. It’s not even close.

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• Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  where does it say 20%

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  • Zeoic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That was an extrapolation from where they said renewables would cover 80% in the article. I can only assume the mentioned gas would be the other 20%

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  • wordmark@mas.to ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    @Aatube @kalkulat @Zeoic It's a good thing that the #sun never shines here and the #wind never blows... In 1810, #Chile expelled the #Spanish #colonial rulers, only to then allow a Spanish company to exploit its own solar and wind energy for profit, Apparently, the highways are also controlled by a foreign Spanish investor who is making a hefty profit from the local population (#neocolonialism 🙈👎 also with #water and #nestle and #energy possibly also in your country

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    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      thanks, that doesn't have anything to do with the concern mentioned you replied to tho

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What does that have to do with the topic being discussed?

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    • wordmark@mas.to ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      @Aatube @kalkulat @Zeoic its VERY hard to convince local people that it would be a good thing to spend 400 bucks on a #solarpanel and a #microinverter (yes #electronics here are more epensive than in US vor EU) i am #depressed

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