Power Plant

“Do they really want a data center plus a power plant next door? That also seems like not the right solution. Like, I think that's, Worse than a data center connected to the grid.”

“And so for the last like 20 years effectively the grid has sort of ossified. We forgot how to build new sort of power plants. We forgot how to build new power projects new loads, sort of large data centers, large factories, large mega projects.”

“And now we're thinking from the outside in, we're saying, what does a power plant look like? What value does it need to bring to the grid? What does it need to do to be really effective and, you know, to meet the business goals of the operator and what do the …”

“If we just said, okay, let's just assume you lose two percent methane, you lose two percent hydrogen. That means if I took that methane and I burned that in a power plant, or I took that hydrogen and I burned that in a power plant, and I'm losing the same amou…”

“Carbon capture in particular only really makes sense if you're running a plant a lot. You know, if you're going to install all that carbon capture equipment and then only run the plant 10% of the time, that's a very, very, you know, the cost of that on a per m…”

“It's like a third of our energy consumption in the United States just goes to boil water to make steam in power plants.”

“And about 40% of all the water withdrawals in the United States every day are just to cool power plants.”

“So we would do this very close to an existing power plant, because we want to pump water into that hole, we want to convert it to steam, and we want to run the steam through the power plant.”

“We have 10,000 Power plants built in the world.”

“So the Smuts power plants emits about two million metric tons of carbon a year, but the building and transportation sector emits eight million metric tons of carbon.”