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Uncommon card · Nature
Gas-fired power plant, an Uncommon card
A gas-fired power plant, sometimes referred to as gas-fired power station, natural gas power plant, or methane gas power plant, is a thermal power station that burns natural gas to generate electricity.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 34,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Gas-fired power plant quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gas-fired power plant card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In the early 2020s batteries became ______ with gas peaker plants.
Answer
competitive. In the early 2020s batteries became competitive with gas peaker plants. From the Gas-fired power plant article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Frans de Waal. Frans de Waal 72 · Jogo do bicho 69 · Gas-fired power plant 64 · Trolltunga 61 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Gas-fired power plants generate almost a quarter of world electricity and are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
- Most energy planning relies on gas fired plants to provide dispatchable energy generation to compensate for variable renewable energy deficits, where hydropower or interconnectors are not available.
- In the early 2020s batteries became competitive with gas peaker plants.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gas-fired power plant article was read about 34,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Gas-fired power plant
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gas-fired power plant (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
