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		adrianN 63 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels Most power plants are less than 50% efficient.

pfdietz 62 days ago | [–]

A gas-fired CC plant built today will have a LHV efficiency > 60%.

adrianN 62 days ago | | [–]

That is true, but I believe that most power plants are not modern combined cycle gas plants.

eigenspace 63 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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