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Depends on where and if you are talking about existing ones or those being designed now. I spent a couple months in Germany and only once for a few hours was the wind not blowing, so they had a capacity factor equal to a nuke plant. Most were only 2.3 MW types, but there were a few 5MW ones too around. AMSC is designing a 10 MW turbine right now that should be in production within 3 years. 100 of those in a good location would equal a typical nuke plant and be much faster and cheaper to build, run and decommission.
> Windmills FILL more than 1,000 times as much of the environment for the same energy output.
> Windmills have killed more people than nuclear plants have while yielding a tiny fraction of the energy.
> Windmills have killed many orders of magnitude more animals than nuclear plants have.
> Windmills displace thousands of times more habitat and eliminate thousands of times more trees than nuclear plants per unit of power generated.
> Are 1,000 wind turbines cheaper to build and maintain that a nuclear reactor? Are you considering you’re talking about TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TIMES more acreage?
> The trouble with the Japanese plant is NOT THE REACTORS. The problem is THE LEFT prevented RECYCLING spent fuel and THE LEFT prevented removing spent fuel from the plant so it is now vaporizing instead of being useful – or even in a safe location.
AS ALWAYS*, you are seeing the EXPECTED result of LEFTIST’S demands while leftists blame THE RIGHT for it.
thousands but the difference is that even if every one of those windmills had a catastrophic failure it wouldn’t cause birth defects for the next several generations.
I had heard that obama directed the government to issue beans to all Americans and hoses so we can eat the beans and put the hoses up our butts and into our engines, that way we can drive on natural gas LOL
I don’t think there could ever be enough windmill meltdowns to equal that of one nuclear plant.
Lots.
A nuclear reaction produces lots of energy. (See atomic bomb).
Quite a few.
Depends on what unit of measurement you use.
In terms of creating the risk of radioactive pollution and big reactor meltdowns, nuclear power plants are just irreplaceable.
If you want an energy source that will threaten half of the population of Japan with radiation sickness and the long-term risk of getting cancer, windmills just can’t do the job.
In terms of replacing the electric energy that a nuclear power plant can produce — at least when it’s not melting down or catching on fire — I think many big wind turbines are needed. Of course, it depends on the size of the nuclear reactor in question, and the size of the wind turbines.
Current wind technology deployed in nonenvironmentally protected areas could generate
37,000,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year,
according to the new analysis conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and consulting firm AWS Truewind.
The US currently uses
3,000,000 giga-watts of electricity every year.
Today’s typical turbine is around 7.5MW, which at a capacity factor of 20% is 1.5 MWe. A nuclear power plant is 1100 MWe, so you’d need 733 wind turbines.
At least 10 thousand but as long as GE is in bed with the politicians, the stupidity will go on forever. Until we cut off the taxpayer subsidies for every one of those windmills.
No amount of windmills would equal the ecological damage of one nuclear power plant.
A billion windmills would not have released the amount of radiation into the atmosphere that the Japanese reactor has already.
No amount of windmills will ever equal nuclear power.
Depends on if the wind is blowing and how hard.
If there is no wind, an infinite number.
Many.
Too bad corporations and profit didn’t drive the construction and operation of nuclear power plants huh? We might actually have more of them.
millions spread out since the wind is not always blowing