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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Are you unable to look stuff up yourself? We aren't your mother, if you think this is defensible and want to go on about it, find some facts yourself before taking the word of a blowhard snake oil salesman.
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Trust me, I'm as skeptical as anyone.
But you fail to present any evidence as to why this will fail outside of some useless mutterings about O'Leary is a snake oil salesman.
Which he very well may be, and might even be with this.
And yet that is just speculation. On the other hand it looks like there may be more to this project than just O'Leary stroking his ego on television.
Which as a Canadian, I hope is true, because anyone with a brain, would realize that with abundant natural gas reserves, Alberta can deliver on power needs for insanely high power needs data centers.
As for your other mutterings about everyone else is going green to build data centers, you know damn well that nuclear is not feasible in 2025, both from a cost perspective, and from a NIMBY perspective. And yet because of the power needs Google, Amazon and others are trying to get the government to restart OLD nuclear plants. Because we know how well that will work.
End of the day natural gas can deliver baseload power needs at a fraction of the cost of anything else.
Wind & solar cannot do that. At least not right now. Funny enough, once upon a time I argued that they could, even on a much smaller scale, and you argued that they couldn't. Which was actually a good discussion, because it was the first time I ever thought about baseload needs.