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Re:Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running... by chollida1 on Sunday October 06, 2024 @04:36PM (#41760089)
> With grid-scale solar and batteries (Chinese production is driving prices down aggressively) you can spin up gigawatt-scale plants almost overnight, until you can cover the shortfall with nuclear or thermal plants.

Can you show an existence proof of someone spinning up gigawatts of energy overnight?

And solar doesn't help with night time and batteries haven't hit giagawatt scale yet, you might be a bit over your skiis with your claim here.

Re:Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running... by Ringz on Sunday October 06, 2024 @05:08PM (#41760330)
„China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week„

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-07-16/chinas-renewa...

The report is here: https://climateenergyfinance.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/...

Re:Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running... by mgiampapa on Sunday October 06, 2024 @04:39PM (#41760113)
Well technically, every time the sun comes up those panels start producing all over the world. FYI, it happens because the earth is spinning.