Reply to post: Re: RFC Electric Greenhouses 1GW = 20 SQMLs

Microsoft runs a data centre on hydrogen for 48 whole hours, reckons it could kick hydrocarbon habit by 2030

Tom 7

Re: RFC Electric Greenhouses 1GW = 20 SQMLs

The best plants (the one they make tequila from) can manage to convert 5% of light into power. We can do 5 times that with PV and nearer 90% utilising the suns heat directly to heat things that need heating - you could make a solar Bessemer converter but probably not in the Midlands of the UK.

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