Re:Nuclear's role in a net-zero world
by stavros on Sunday March 24, 2024 @09:49PM
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From the data I can see (e.g. https://www.ourworldofenergy.com/vignettes.php?type=wind-pow...), wind needs at least 30,000 acres per GW, a far cry from the nuclear 1,000 acres for 7 GW above.
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You’re looking at the distance between turbines as if that land was useless for anything else. It’s not.
Put a turbine in the on a 10,000 acre farm and you’ll still have a 9,999 acre farm. Put a nuclear reactor on that same land and you’ll be doing a lot less farming.