@filister@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agoLas Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamerwww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square438fedilinkarrow-up11.01Karrow-down147
arrow-up1960arrow-down1external-linkLas Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamerwww.pcgamer.com@filister@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square438fedilink
minus-squarecapitallinkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoRegardless, that energy could be going to offset other energy currently being produced by non-renewables no matter which way you slice it.
minus-square Morphit linkfedilinkEnglish1•4 months agoSo build concentrated solar power and store the heat for after the sun sets. Bonus - thermal power plant turbines give inertia to the grid, which photo-voltaics don’t.
And yet they still couldn’t cover the last 30%.
That’s probably at night
Regardless, that energy could be going to offset other energy currently being produced by non-renewables no matter which way you slice it.
So build concentrated solar power and store the heat for after the sun sets. Bonus - thermal power plant turbines give inertia to the grid, which photo-voltaics don’t.