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You do realize that maintaining windmills is a constant affair, their install costs and such are not insignificant. I won't even touch the damage they can do to
by Shivetya 12y ago
You do realize that maintaining windmills is a constant affair, their install costs and such are not insignificant. I won't even touch the damage they can do to birds and bats. Solar might be worse depending on which tech you implement. Besides simply all the site improvements required you have entire factories elsewhere making the bulk of the parts and many of those processes are not that clean.
Then top it all off with getting the power to where it is needed. Wind power pretty much has locations where its more ideal to build. Solar's foot print does similar. A fusion plant, probably could simply replace any large coal facility which would get you two birds with one stone
- TheSpiceIsLife 12y agoYes, I'm well aware of the input and maintenance requirements for wind turbines. One company I have worked for manufactured a bunch of turbine masts. Lots of steel, lots of welding. Though I reckon, with nuclear fission + solar + wind, when and where it makes sense to use each technology, we can keep the lights on, buying us time to develop even cleaner more efficient forms of electricity production. The small modular reactor designs we've been hearing more about recently sound like a really good idea for drop-in replacements for existing coal fired power stations. Though retro-fitting new technology to existing plant is often a better idea on paper. But at least the existing sites can be reused.