Re:South Korea building the largest ever offshore wind farm
by Jabbles on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @06:25PM
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When they quote the wind farm as 2500MW, it's probably its theoretical capacity. I don't know enough about South Korea to say how close the actual production will be, but I'll bet it's actually <1GW.
This sounds great, and it really is, but don't forget that this is the equivalent of one nuclear power station, and South Korea requires ~40GW in total.
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Re:South Korea building the largest ever offshore wind farm
by zshahan on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @06:13PM
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South Korea might be the next clean energy giant. while we put a lot of attention on China and Europe, South Korea is making some huge steps forward...
This sounds great, and it really is, but don't forget that this is the equivalent of one nuclear power station, and South Korea requires ~40GW in total.
You may be interested in this excellent free book on the energy crisis and the different strategies we could use to help ourselves: http://www.withouthotair.com/