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If your town users a peak of say 100MW and is powered by two 50MW feeds Then a new DC creates another 300MW of demand and builds 300MW more feeds Then the DC
by iso1631 5mo ago
If your town users a peak of say 100MW and is powered by two 50MW feeds
Then a new DC creates another 300MW of demand and builds 300MW more feeds
Then the DC goes bust, you're left with 350MW of potential supply and 50MW of demand
Compare with a highway, you had a 2 lane road, and it was fine, with 1000 cars an hour, then someone expanded it to 8 lanes and filled them with another 3000 cars an hour.
Then they vanished, and you're left with an 8 lane road for 1000 cars an hour, paying 4 times the maintenance for extra unneeded capacity.
- pembrook 5mo agoYou're kidding yourself if you think people are laying down in front of bulldozers out of concern for trivial maintenance costs on under-utilized grid capacity.
- iso1631 5mo agoThe assertion was this was a "golden opportunity" In reality there's nothing to gain in theory, and in practice it correlates with higher energy costs