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While investigating my orphaned-well math porno research, I ran across another item of interest, with respect to the oil industry and wind power.
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As of 1990, 30% of all oil wells drilled in the USA were dry holes.
There were 2,242 of them that year.
At a cost of $ 896,097,550.
Had that been the situation for each annual drilling cycle, by 2022, we'd be looking at a national loss of $29,571,219,150.
Not adjusting for inflation, this amount of money would have paid for 8,448, 2-MW wind turbines.
16.897- GW of installed capacity ( greater than all present, 2022 national wind capacity ).
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And unaware to Alice Friedemann, as these turbines reached the end of the 20-year life, the towers could have remained, and the 'guts' 'Repowered', with up-graded hardware and more efficient blades, which are known to triple the output of the original turbines.
That would be 50.69-GW, just by changing the ornaments on the Christmas tree.
And no ' dry towers .'