| | | When it comes to "MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING" just 'follow the money' ....
Think of all those giant Wind Mills and their wind-powered generators than we see in offshore locations and spread around many countrysides ....
And those massive spreads of solar powered arrays taking up hundreds of acres of space ....
Etc, etc, etc, ..... AND, it's not just the original supply of these items, it's also the ongoing maintenance and spare parts businesses that goes with it and all those PATENTS giving a small number of companies EXCLUSIVE SUPPLY CONTRACTS .....
And then, of course, we see the Anti-Nuclear Power lobby who don't want clean, safe power because it's "Risky" and "Dangerous" and, and, and .....
BUT a country such as FRANCE, for heaven's sake, got OVER 70% OF ITS GENERATED POWER FROM ITS OWN DESIGNED AND BUILT NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS !!! .... AND they've not had ONE NUCLEAR ACCIDENT ....
A sample of some of the larger French reactors ....
Nuclear Reactor size can go up to in excess of 8000 MW ......
So if we assume the average size of an above average Nuclear Powered plant is about 3000 MW and the average output of a wind powered generator is about 10 MW, seeing as the world's largest will be 12 MW ...
..... that means that ONE average sized Nuclear Power station can provide as much electricity as 300 large Wind Turbines !! AND, it can provide that electricity 24/7/365 which a Wind Turbine cannot do ....
So in that above list of only 17 French Nuclear plants we see about 23,000 MW of power. That's the equivalent of 23000/10 = 2300 Wind powered generators which can't be relied on 100% of the time !!!
The way I see it, the Base Load of a 1st World Industrial Country should come from Nuclear Power. To that can be added Wind, Solar, Wave, Tidal generated power. But to do away, completely, with Nuclear Power, as Germany has done, is, IMO, stupid and short sighted ...... |
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