Re: ongoing infrastructure changes with AI in the USA

On 11/15/24 14:27, William Hyde wrote:

Lynn McGuire wrote:

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 ?

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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.
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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.
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That alone made it worth the cost.
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William Hyde

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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.
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/859266/number-of-coal-power- plants-by-country/
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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).
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Bag houses on the exhaust gas would have stopped the flyash in the air problem.  Your old coal power plants

 When I was in public school our class was taken on a trip to  see this same spanking new technological marvel of a power plant.
 Scary.
  William Hyde

Well, when I was young my mother and step-father drove past PG&E
hydroelectric power plants in the foothills of Northern California
and to me they looked like fortresses of technology. I remember being
impressed.86 years later.

bliss