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To: Snowshoe who wrote (16)	1/15/2001 11:11:25 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Respond to of 312

This is a useless comparison because a nuke plant costs much more than a wind turbine. Did you take into account the service life? A properly built nuclear plant has 3-4 times the operational life of a wind turbine. That means you'll have to build and tear down each of those 2,500 wind turbines 3-4 times to equal lifespan of one nuclear plant. And given that each 600 KW wind turbine costs roughly $500,000 a pop (subject to availability..:0), and it would take roughly 5,000 of them to equal the constantly available output of a medium sized nuclear plant, it's hard to see the economic benefit when compared to nuclear power. windpower.dk Total upfront cost? $2.5 Billion (minus cost of real estate) Multiply that figure by 4 and you come in at twice the average cost of building a nuclear power facility. And you would required far more people to operate and maintain such a number of windmills which would add to those operating costs. Again, windpower is great for undeveloped or isolated regions and I think it should be encouraged. But it should not be falsely presented as a viable or desirable alternative over Nuclear. To do so, is simply to ignore the facts and the simple economics of it. Btw, I hope I'm not coming across as adversarial or hostile.. I really appreciate your participation on the thread and am ready to take as much "punishment" as I might dole out... <vbg> Regards, Ron