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Can power outages be more expensive than diesel?
by whatshisface 4y ago
Can power outages be more expensive than diesel?
- Vecr 4y agoQuakes and flooding can kill generators. You can be smart and build them on elevated earthworks, but if the event is severe enough something will fail.
- 55873445216111 4y agoFabs require 10's of MW continuous load. Not feasible to backup with diesel generator.
- justinjlynn 4y agoRather feasible with a set of natural gas turbine plants. Pipelines and local storage would be expensive but doable - depending on the economic damage of the plant going offline. Cost share it with a data centre facility to reduce the per megawatt cost even further.
- 55873445216111 4y agoYes. But in layman's terms, wouldn't you just call that a "power plant"?
- justinjlynn 4y agoI mean, so too is a genset a powerplant. It's really just a question of scale and generation capacity. Imagine we're talking about a cell versus a battery. Same thing really.