Could Offshore Wind Replace Nuclear Power? SNIPPET:August 16, 2016 by Bloomberg
by Jessica Shankleman (Bloomberg) Britain could
scrap the 18 billion-pound ($23 billion) nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point and get the same amount of electricity from offshore wind turbines for roughly the same investment.
That’s the assessment of Bloomberg New Energy Finance following Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to review whether to proceed with the first new atomic plant in more than three decades.
For
the same capital costs, the U.K. could install about 830 new turbines at sea, which would generate 25 terawatt hours a year — the same amount of power the Hinkley reactors would produce, according to the London-based researcher.
Aglebert NOTE: Not to mention the FACT that sea side wind turbines in Japan were unscathed by the giant tsunami when all the nuclear reactors were put out of commission or melted down to pollute every living thing around them.
Not to mention the FACT that we-the-people have to bear the cost (i.e. nuclear welfare queen subsidy THEFT) of insuring nuclear power plants because, although private insurers will gladly insure offshore wind turbines, they will NOT insure nuclear power plants.
Not to mention the FACT that Nuclear power plant capital costs CONTINUE after being built BECAUSE they need more fuel rods from polluting mining and manufacturing operations.
Not to mention the FACT that Wind turbine maintenance is
much less hazardous, while maintenance costs are much lower than that of a nuclear power plant. Yes, you need more people (i.e. MORE JOBS!
) to maintain a lot of wind turbines. But the elimination of the COSTS to we-the-people of insuring nuclear power plants, providing sweetheart financing and guaranteed energy price rates more than offsets the cost to employ all these people.
Full article including
energy cost bold faced lies (i. e. nuclear power is 'cheaper' than wind power),
doubletalk (i. e. claiming that the wind 'only blows half the time' in order to assert that wind power generating capacity needs to be DOUBLE -
wind power is reliable over 80% of the time over the UK ocean.),
and whining about renewable 'schemes' by a
spokesman for the
EDF nuke pukes:
http://gcaptain.com/could-offshore-wind-replace-nuclear-power/