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Excuse me my ignorance, perhaps I am missing something... 21MW is a giant wind farm, while 1000MW is a regular nuclear reactor. How do we intend to replace nuc
by egorfine 2y ago
Excuse me my ignorance, perhaps I am missing something...
21MW is a giant wind farm, while 1000MW is a regular nuclear reactor. How do we intend to replace nuclear with solar and wind? I mean we actually do and seems like we are steadily on that path, I just want to know what am I missing from the big picture to understand exactly how.
Update: nevermind, it's a single wind turbine that makes 21MW, not the whole farm.
- imtringued 2y agoThat is not a 21MW giant wind farm, that is a single giant 21MW wind turbine. Giant wind farms are planned to have up to 20000MW of capacity [0]. The real question is: how do you propose nuclear to replace solar and wind? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu_Wind_Farm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gansu_Wind_Farm
- egorfine 2y agoI absolutely stand corrected! Now it makes perfect sense, thank you!
- SideburnsOfDoom 2y ago1) by building and installing a whole lot of these big turbines to create the "wind farm" 2) by leveraging repetition and incrementalism in building installing a lot of these big turbines: doing it on a shorter and more predictable timescale than a nuclear reactor, at a smaller and more predictable cost than a nuclear reactor, and getting some benefit as soon as a few are up. 3) by, I assume, having lower decommissioning costs than a nuclear reactor.