power plant

also referred to as: power plants

6 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Sep 15, 2022 by Dr. Michael Webber · across every show →

Everything said about power plant, oldest first

Sep 15, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Webber: 40% of US water withdrawals cool power plants
“And about 40% of all the water withdrawals in the United States every day are just to cool power plants.”
Dr. Michael Webber Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 12:36 Averting water wars as we decarbonize
Sep 15, 2022 neutral
Assertion Supported
Webber: About a third of US energy boils water in power plants
“It's like a third of our energy consumption in the United States just goes to boil water to make steam in power plants.”
Dr. Michael Webber Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 9:07 Averting water wars as we decarbonize
May 18, 2023
Insight
Larson: Carbon capture only makes economic sense on high-utilization power plants
“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…”
John Larson May 18, 2023 ▶ 19:10 Unpacking EPA’s newly proposed power emissions rule
Aug 23, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Johnson: Replacing methane power plants with hydrogen cuts emissions by 97%
“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…”
Pete Johnson Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 24:28 Hunting for geologic hydrogen
May 20, 2025 positive
Insight
Doherty: Grid storage design has shifted from inside-out to outside-in architecture
“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 …”
Tristan Doherty May 20, 2025 ▶ 16:51 A former race car engineer on battery safety and supply chains [partner content]
Sep 3, 2026 negative
Opinion
Janous: On-site power plants make data center community backlash worse
“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.”
Brian Janous Sep 3, 2026 ▶ 26:18 What comes after the data center backlash?
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