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by burnt-resistor 14 days ago
Natural gas generators are sometimes converted aviation high bypass turbofan engines. By running many of them, such a site creates a lot of local noise, chemical vapor, and particulate pollution.
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The ones being put in now are also worst-case inefficient, noisy ones due to a shortage - well, complete absence really since they've all been sucked up into data centers - of more efficient, (relatively) quieter ones.