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From:	Jack in OH (72.241.32.51)
Subject:	The four wind turbines in nearby Bowling Green, OH
Date:	February 2, 2010 at 7:40 pm PST

In Reply to: posted by Freedom Lover on February 2, 2010 at 6:32 am:

are rated at 6.8 megawatts. They cost $8.8 to purchase and install. A 1000 megawatt nuclear plant costs about $5 billion. That same output with wind turbines would cost about $1.3 billion. So why is he talking nuclear?

Well, the wind doesn't always blow, but solar could supplement the wind turbines, and if both are not putting out enough, we have a lot of natural gas to power conventional power generation. We also have high-capacity sodium sulfur batteries that can store alternative generated electricity for when needed.

The move to nuclear seems more politically motivated than reality motivated.

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