...Sound like a winning power plan(t)?...
...but overall, it’s probably one of the easiest projects I’ve ever tried to take on.
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Oh yeah, everything is easy sitting at the keyboard. It's the doing that ain't so easy.
In your spreadsheet I saw no allowance for the questioable, and most likely piss-poor reliability of a Listeroid. Come on, now. A freakin’ data center relying on an Indian Listeroid? I’m thinking you might want to leave that little tidbit out of the marketing plan for the facility.
You’re talking through your hat, dude. THIS is one project that aint’t gonna happen.
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Sounds interesting, keep us posted…
I will address your brutal answers one at a time, with brutal honesty.
First off, I don't take kindly to people telling me I can't do things. When I was 19, I was told I couldn't start an ISP. I was academically dismissed from college... I wasn't smart or devoted enough. Besides, I was too young to go in to business. But I was in business since I was 14 selling popcorn at local fairs, events, etc. I knew that there was no such thing as being too young for business. College didn't catch my interest, it was hard to focus on engineering when the internet was evolving around me. I wanted to be a part of that instead. Most people that tell me that I can't do so because they're afraid that they can't do so themselves. When I was 21, I was told I could never ever raise the capital to expand the ISP. People that tell me I can't try to make themselves feel better about their inability's, or lack of self worth by trying to convince me to think the same way. It doesn't work. I watched ISPs around me fail and go bankrupt. When I was 24, I was told that dial up was dead, and that it was dumb to expand my ISP to anywhere else. But I didn't listen. When people tell me I can't, it just drives me harder. When I was 25, I was told that I couldn't possibly afford to build out a data center, not on my own, not without merging with some other company, or bring in an investor that would end up owning most of the whole deal. I didn't listen. Stubborn me! When I was 26, I was told I couldn't have it lit with fiber from two diverse directions. Fiber is too expensive. When I was 27, I was told that I couldn't keep the ISP going without DSL from the local telcos. Now I have a data center. It has customers. At that point, people that knew me have pretty much stopped telling me what I can't do. I was told that having 3X generation would be too expensive. 3X redundant air conditioners? Nope, that would never fly. The funny things is that I managed to do both. More than 10 miles of fiber was installed and lit. I've got an ISP that has five nines of reliability. I've learned a thing or two about reliability over the years. I've got nearly a thousand square miles covered with fixed wireless broadband. DSL is overrated. I'm going to turn 30 soon, and I deserve a birthday present. A listeroid will do just fine, thank you! I think I've earned it!
In my spare time over the years, I've supercharged a car that shouldn't have been supercharged, dabbled in the programming of it's PCM, participated in some open source projects, played around with gas turbines, built pneumatic spud cannons that propel spuds beyond the speed of sound, installed an off grid system in a remote cabin, written some software, and probably some other stuff that I'm forgetting. I still like to practice pistol craft, because shooting stuff is fun, participate in hobby racing, you know, because driving fast on a road course is fun, and just do the normal day to day things that everyone does like have a family, raise my boys, climb towers, and run a business.
After all of that, yes, grid tying a listeroid is going to be a cakewalk.
About the reliability: apparently you weren't paying attention, or didn't actually read my post. Probably both. Maybe you were just too eager to try and bring me down. But that didn't work. Go read it again and pay attention this time. What part of that plan depended on the listeroid to do anything? It's an extra source of heat, and an extra source of grid tied power. Nothing more. TIED TO THE GRID! Nothing will depend on it, ever, and nothing will be made less reliable because of its existence or operation. It's going to sit in a detached concrete building to contain it! I'll say it again: the power house will have room for another engine that I can set in there along side the lister. I know I didn't forget to mention that. After I go to all the work to build the powerhouse and infrastructure, I would like the ability to get a small, modern 3 cylinder diesel, or another power source of choice if the roid isn't up to the task of reliability. And it probably won't be, but that's fine. Either way, I would like to learn exactly what that reliability level is. If I have to do some mods, that's fine, and that'll be part of the fun. It'll be part of the hobby!!
When I said that it would take a year, I meant that it would take a year in my "spare" time, if I was really ambitious about it. Heck, maybe it'll take two or three, but that's not the point. The point is that I could do this project in less than a month if I devoted myself to it. I know I can do it, that's not in question. The biggest question is how many years worth of spare time will it take?