“MORE NEW WIND GENERATING CAPACITY THAN NUCLEAR INSTALLED WORLDWIDE FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW”
-American Wind Energy Association
A nuclear power plant hasn’t been ordered successfully since 1973 and none have gone online since 1996, and recent capacity additions have simply been installation of more efficient equipment at power plants. So windmill companies have built more than nothing.
Congratulations to them. Meanwhile, back in reality…
Filed under Alternatives, Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Fun With Statistics, Industry Performance
Posted on October 31, 2006 by Stewart Peterson |
[cough] “worldwide”
More seriously, wind generating capacity needs to be three times nuclear capacity before the actual delivered power comes to parity, because wind’s capacity factor over a year is at best 30%, whereas nuclear’s is often 90%.
So maybe a true claim but a hollow one.
meanwhile back in reality…(what? Doesn’t this imply there is some reality to get back to? Leaving it blank suggests nothing to say, no reality to get back to.)
Yes wind’s capacity needs to drastically increase. But what is nuclear power doing to clean up its act? What is it doing to stop producing harmful filth that will pollute our planet for a long, long time? I suggest nuclear advocates be a little less hypocritical and store some of that crap in their basements.
Waste-eating reactors produce ‘harmful filth?’
And what of the harmful filth of the middle ages? Do we want that, as a society? Is that preferable to even the nuclear waste situation as it currently exists, where casks would sit in the desert as a monument to the point where humanity decided to stop dumping waste into the environment as SOP?