The Madness Of Unreliable, Hugely Expensive Wind Power

On Aug 18, 4:10*pm, martin wrote:
Mauried wrote:
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:48:26 +0100, martin wrote:

nbzoo wrote:

"Wind is so intermittent that it would require an impossible building programme
of 20,000 MW of wind farms by 2020 at an overall cost of some $40 billion! "
That's $2/watt. A nuclear power plant between $3 and $6/watt.

Sounds like a bargain to me.

You need to learn the differance between power and energy.
A country needs energy, not power.
How much energy does a $2 a watt wind farm make compared to a $3 a
watt nuke plant.

Idiot

Energy (J) is 1W/s

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nope, you got that backwards. 1 watt = 1 joule/second.
- A. McIntire

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