3 ms·
Yes, I realized a while after posting that a 20 MW plant would produce way too much waste heat to fit in such a small volume. My bad. I couldn't get back in tim
by wcoenen 14y ago
Yes, I realized a while after posting that a 20 MW plant would produce way too much waste heat to fit in such a small volume. My bad. I couldn't get back in time to my comment to edit in a correction.
My gut feeling is still that something is wrong if a 20 MW plant is called "massive". I'd expect a massive power plant to produce gigawatts, not a few megawatts. That's the feeling I tried to convey with my bad example.
- ktizo 14y agoIf you go to Germany you can see gigawatts of solar, they had a recent 22 GW peak, even though the largest single installation is only 91 MW - http://www.secondpagemedia.com/jadblog/2012/05/germany-nets-20-nuclear-power-plants-worth-of-solar-power/ http://www.secondpagemedia.com/jadblog/2012/05/germany-nets-...
- jhaglund 14y ago100 acres is relatively "massive" compared to existing American solar installations. But it's really not that large an area in the industrial sense. I searched "acres refinery" to get an idea of how much land an oil refinery takes up (required, in addition to oil fields, for your diesel generators). Chevron's Richmond refinery took up 435 acres in 1915, expanded over the years to to 2,900 acres in 2002. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Richmond_Refinery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Richmond_Refinery