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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by neurotech1 on Monday December 21, 2015 @09:51PM (#10775479)
They do. Natural Gas fueled generators are practical at 50MW capacity. GE basically sells a 747 engine (CF6) driving a generator, known as the LMS6000

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_LM6000

[1] http://www.geaviation.com/marine/engines/military/lm6000/

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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by burger_moon on Monday December 21, 2015 @11:08PM (#10775763)
I understand that gas turbines can produce that kind of power, in fact I used to work on some pretty large turbines and turbo generators in the 500-1000MW range. However they aren't used as backup generators where they have to be online in a minute. These are the types of generators I was referring to, https://powergen.gepower.com/products/reciprocating-engines/...
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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by techdragon on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @12:04AM (#10775937)
More batteries to get over the slower generator startup time, and likely quite a few smaller generators to do the best they can to keep the batteries going if the big generator is slower than expected to startup that day.
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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by mpnordland on Monday December 21, 2015 @10:13PM (#10775568)
That's probably the most awesome thing I've heard tonight.
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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by ajaimk on Monday December 21, 2015 @11:12PM (#10775772)
That is cool. Wonder what the efficiency of one of those will be.
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Re:Bitcoin's mining difficulty has increased by 41.9% over t... by iSnow on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @05:30AM (#10776891)
40%, it's in the linked Wikipedia article.
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