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Environment & Energy

VMA131Marine

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1. It takes 1-2 permanent employees to run

Reply to OKIsItJustMe (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2026, 11:19 AM

11 hrs ago

a grid scale solar facility.

It takes 25-30 employees to run a gas turbine power plant.

It takes 50-100 employees to run a 300 MW coal power plant

It’s not difficult to see why coal power plants is declining quite apart from their GHG and toxic heavy metal emissions.

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It takes 1-2 permanent employees to run VMA131Marine 11 hrs ago #1

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