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by adrianN 145 days ago
Most power plants are less than 50% efficient.
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pfdietz 144 days ago
A gas-fired CC plant built today will have a LHV efficiency > 60%.
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adrianN 144 days ago
That is true, but I believe that most power plants are not modern combined cycle gas plants.
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eigenspace 145 days ago
Yeah, 70% is more or less a best-case scenario (unless you count systems for recovering and distributing waste heat, then it goes higher)
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