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Originally Posted by RedDevil
IOW "Shut up and ditch all your renewables so we can humanely save the world"...
Every single line in that manifesto is opinionated. Follow the money.
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The math is correct for the quantity of rebuildables required regardless of what you think about their recommendation that nuclear makes more sense. Except for my mistake in copying this:
"The $15.2 Trillion price for the bare-bones Roadmap also leaves out the new
transmission corridors required to connect its 50,000-plus wind and solar farms to the
national grid."
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I should have said that it takes 5,000 (not 50,000) 500MW SolarStar or Topaz sized solar farms. Which will average .5TW.
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But it does take 1,000,000 2.5 MW wind turbines (5MW wind turbines are too large to handily transport via highway and will be more applicable to offshore installations) to make .8 TW. And then 75 million 10kW roof top systems to make another .15 TW, plus keep all of the hydro that we have.