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To: discostu
You’re the one that was saying they can supply all our needs, I was pointing out that you’re wrong. It’s nothing in some places because the climate in those places just isn’t conducive to wind power. Actually nukes CAN supply all our energy for quite a while.

So with wind you have to run transmission lines long distances and over build by quite a big factor to provide the theoretical and mystical ALL of our power. With nukes you have to.....overbuild and run transmission lines long distances. Since demand fluxuates you have to throttle nukes on and off, which they HATE, thus greatly increasing the cost per kwhr. Same exact problem as trying to provided ALL of our power with wind.

77 posted on 12/09/2009 8:59:23 AM PST by DungeonMaster (camel, eye of a needle; rich man, heaven)
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To: DungeonMaster

Of course when you run AC over long distances you lose power, and you have to put in substations to juice it back up and those are expensive, and you get more power lines that can be blown down in storms like the one we had yesterday blowing 74 MPH.

With nukes you build power plants over all the place like we already do. Every major city has at least one power plant already, it’s not that tough. Since any other type of power plant can produce hundred of times more energy in the same amount of real estate as a wind farm. And they can keep running during inclement weather. Nobody throttles nuke plants, the just change how much power is going to capacitors for emergency use.

Sorry but no other power plant has the problems of windmills. Windmills are a joke.


78 posted on 12/09/2009 9:04:39 AM PST by discostu (The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression)
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