Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 days ago
a commenter:
They claim to compare the cost of powering a 120MW data centre from a dedicated 470MW RR SMR compared to powering it from an 80MW gas turbine plus some unspecified number of wind, solar, and battery installations. For a study supposedly promoting wind, solar and battery technology, you would think they would tell us how many, what size, and what model of wind turbines they are modelling. But no, that's left to vague hand waving.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 days ago
on review this doesn't appear to be entirely true; they don't disclose how they get the "43.4%" but say they get 31.7% cheaper than nuclear if gas is 5%.
Forester@pawb.social 4 days ago
Get out of here with your facts, reason and logic it’s not allowed. Don’t you understand we have to turn off all the deadly evil nuclear plants and stop them from poisoning the Earth and killing so many more people than all other methods of power combined /s
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 days ago
where was i anti-nuclear
Forester@pawb.social 4 days ago
You weren’t