It’s not -a lot- of electricity … a couple of thousand kWh per day. It’s also used to de-salinate ocean water … of which there’s plenty.

    • Jason2357@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      It’s the misleading “generated” electricity headline. It just re-captures some of the spent energy to be slightly more efficient.

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      2 days ago

      It seems like every other top level reply in this thread is people poking holes in it based on their personal speculation about the details.