More mathematics of electricity

[pcrussell50]

My point in starting this thread was to point out how wasteful of land resources, the part-time/unrelibles are for supplying the grid, compared to the more compact and reliable forms of energy production.

xAI is buying 29, 47,000 hp gas turbines. It would take 350 acres covered in solar panels just to equal one gas turbine. That would be a LOT of land to destroy, to meet the energy demands of keeping a modern society.

To say nothing of the hazardous waste involved in the wind and solar and the hidden social inequity (the rich exploiting the poor), involved in how the hazardous waste has been dealt with, in the name of keeping it invisible so it looks cleaner than it is.

-Peter