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Just to nitpick your numbers a bit. 6MW, while a lot of power, is still a lot less than your average nuclear reactor, even a small one (The reactors on the Fren
by harg 6y ago
Just to nitpick your numbers a bit. 6MW, while a lot of power, is still a lot less than your average nuclear reactor, even a small one (The reactors on the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle are 150MW each), and Hydro schemes are often in the thousands of MW.
In fact, many single offshore wind turbines are capable of generating a lot more than 6MW. GW's Haliade-X tubines have an output of 13MW each.
- gambiting 6y agoI was going off of the fact that at least here in the UK more than half of all hydroelectric power dams are less than 6MW[0], actually closer to 1MW than 6MW, and for nuclear power the Bilibiono power station operates 11MW reactors[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity_in_the_United... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGP-6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGP-6