Re: ongoing infrastructure changes with AI in the USA

On 11/15/2024 1:48 PM, William Hyde wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:
 

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Where is all of this electric power going to come from, especially since we are shutting down 100+ coal power plants per year in the USA ?

 As I understand it about 170 are due to be shut down between now and 2030.  And given that delays in this field are not uncommon, I suspect the actual number will be less.
 Since we shut down our coal plants fifteen years ago, the number of respiratory alerts in Toronto has gone from thirty per summer to one or less.
 That alone made it worth the cost.
 William Hyde

Yeah, I should have put SWAG on that 100 per year number.  The USA has 204 coal power plants left.  About a dozen or so here in Texas.  Nine of the coal power plants I worked at in the 1980s have been shut down in the last 15 years.
  https://www.statista.com/statistics/859266/number-of-coal-power-plants-by-country/
Good luck on getting China to shut down their 1,161 coal power plants. They are adding a new coal power plant every week still in China (SWAG).
Bag houses on the exhaust gas would have stopped the flyash in the air problem.  Your old coal power plants probably just had electrostatic precipitators, if that, which only get 80% of the flyash on a good day. Bag houses are 98% effective but require more exhaust gas fans due to their pressure drop (1/4 inch wall thickness woven metal bags).
Lynn