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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh
I did some calculations a while back on land use per kilowatt-hour and posted it in another thread on this topic. While solar and wind are virtually free energy and "renewable" they take massive amounts of land mass and still don't produce anywhere near the power levels generated by coal, natural gas, nor nuclear. In Mt. Storm West Virginia there is a 3-generator coal plant built in the 1960s. About a decade ago the power company began building a wind farm around it on the ridges of the mountains. While a serious eyesore, the 100 or so wind mills produce about one coal generator's worth of electricity and the land footprint is massive. It's nice for renewable energists to love wind mills because the unsightly things are not in their backyard. Solar and wind will never meet the capacity the US needs on a daily basis and are just feel-good exercises.
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I was just listening to the news and surprise another government scandal, Ontario has been selling and giving away surplus energy to NY and Michigan, this energy is the stuff our wind power generates and the cost to Ontario tax payers is in the billions of lost revenue as Wind cost us 80cents/Kw Hour. Our "Green Energy Policy" had our government committed to billions for solar and wind moving forward, we already have lots of hydro electric and nuclear but in order to save the planet we needed wind and solar, so again, electricy to power your tesla is very expensive.