Re: ongoing infrastructure changes with AI in the USA

On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 14:28:06 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> 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 ?

 
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

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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.
 
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).

But are they using bag houses?

Trying to keep them from not generating the power they need is
pointless; trying to get them to use modern tech may not be.

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).

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