While it's true that my napkin-math uses it's planned max output, this correction is not accurate either: That figure seems to refer to only a portion of the generators running on the site, and it also involves contracts rather than what was delivered.
Instead let's look at Wikipedia's the "Production" > "Ivanpah total" for the year 2022, which is 769,164 MWh across that year. Convert to joules, divide by the seconds in a year, and that's an average output of 87.74 megawatts.
That's down by a factor of ~4.47x from my original napkin-math, so we can just apply it to the coal-amount, giving us a revised "Is mining and burning ~21.9 tons of coal gonna kill a bird?"
While it's true that my napkin-math uses it's planned max output, this correction is not accurate either: That figure seems to refer to only a portion of the generators running on the site, and it also involves contracts rather than what was delivered.
Instead let's look at Wikipedia's the "Production" > "Ivanpah total" for the year 2022, which is 769,164 MWh across that year. Convert to joules, divide by the seconds in a year, and that's an average output of 87.74 megawatts.
That's down by a factor of ~4.47x from my original napkin-math, so we can just apply it to the coal-amount, giving us a revised "Is mining and burning ~21.9 tons of coal gonna kill a bird?"