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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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