Posted on 04/29/2020 10:28:44 PM PDT by george76
it’s appropriate to mourn the passing of one notable longtime New Yorker .. Unit 2 reactor at the Indian Point Energy Center.
The workhorse, Westchester-based nuclear-power generator, which could have run for several more decades, is scheduled to be unplugged Thursday. Cause of death: political expediency
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the 1,028-megawatt Westinghouse machine delivered about 8,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity a year from a site on the Hudson River that covers less than a half square mile.
Unit 2’s prodigious output left its more politically popular rivals — solar and wind energy — in the shade. Ivanpah, the biggest thermal-solar project in America, puts out less than 800 gigawatt-hours of juice each year. Located in California’s Mojave Desert, the solar plant sprawls over about 3,500 acres (about 5.4 square miles).
To match Unit 2’s output with solar-thermal energy would require 10 Ivanpahs covering 140 times more territory than what Indian Point uses.
Unit 2 also towered over wind turbines. Replacing the electric power it generated with wind energy would require blanketing roughly 250 square miles with wind turbines .
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In 2017, three days after Cuomo announced Indian Point would be prematurely shuttered, his appointees .. revealed plans to shower $360 million in subsidies on renewable-energy projects.
NYSERDA, which gets most of its funding from surcharges slapped onto New Yorkers’ utility bills, agreed to pay $24.24 per megawatt-hour for electricity produced by wind projects owned by NextEra Energy and Invenergy. The state subsidies were to be stacked on top of the federal production-tax credit worth as much as $23 per megawatt-hour.
Thus, while Unit 2 got no financial support from the state, its Big Wind rivals were feasting on subsidies worth as much as $47 per megawatt-hour.
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the average price of wholesale electricity in the state was about $45 per megawatt-hour.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Can the reactor be deactivated, and then started once again at a later date?
Do not forget that NY has an abundance of shale gas and oil....but Cuomo and the Democrats just made hydraulic fracturing ILLEGAL within the boundaries of New York.
Nuclear power (fission or Fusion) will never be realized in this country again if Demoncrats have any power in elected offices or in the bureaucracy>
Their only goal is the destruction of this country. With their utopian goal of Venezuela established.
Breadlines? Check. Empty store shelves? Check. Meat shortages? Check. Rolling blackouts? Up next!
And it was within its design parameters to be able to run for several more decades!
You may get 25 years from a solar panel before it's no longer viable, 20 years from a wind turbine before the entire assembly needs replaced.
But this is just the beginning of the Endarkening of our former Republic.
And wind turbines need to be replaced in 20-30 years, and the multi-ton blades are not recyclable.
Where are the Hudson Valley UFOs supposed to hang out now?
“And wind turbines need to be replaced in 20-30 years”
Actually, blades are being replaced at 10.
Hi.
Where is NYC’s electricity going to come from?
5.56mm
And how soon will the “brown outs” begin for electricity users in NYC?
Not from what I saw in California. It didn't look like they were being replaced at all, with most windmills idle.
And guess where they're going...
Reason 408 why I’m glad I don’t live in NY and feel sorry for those that do. Utter stupidity by Cuomo.
“And guess where they’re going...”
The great windmill landfills. Nothing about them is reusable.
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