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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
Sounds promising. Although as technology chances are some of this 'green power' equipment becomes useless..its just more shit for landfills. The whole green movement is kinda a scam in a way. Companies making billions off things they know will be useless and outdated in 10 years, yet we're still spending billions on it.
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He was talking about a 300MW power plant, not a computer part such as a cd-rom drive.
The power plant never becomes "useless" as long as replacement parts continue to be made for it and repairs done and as long as no one damages/destroys it.
In other words,
The 300MW power plant is a single unit. When someone invents a newer,better power plant with more or cheaper power, the newer plant does not need to be compatible with this 300MW plant. It only needs to (eventaually) generate more (or enough) income than the cost to build it.
Maybe in the future, they will build another better power plant next to it. But it's not necessary to shut this one down, unless it becomes too expensive,dangerous to repair/maintain as it ages. Everything ages, so this is to be expected with any system,plant,device.