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On 4 Jul 2024 at 10:58:07 BST, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 04/07/2024 10:06, alan_m wrote:
>> Another half truth by the industry. It's only cheaper when it works and
>> if you ignore the backup required for when it doesn't and the extra
>> infrastructure costs required to distribute it.
> 
> It isn't even cheaper then.
> Some of us have run the numbers...
> 

Care to share ;-)

> Per gigawatt a wind turbine is cheaper than a nuclear power station but
> that ignores
> - the shorter lifetime of the windmill
> - the capacity factor of the windmill
> - the massive maintenance cost associated with a windmill.
> 

I find it hard to believe that the revenue costs (per unit of electricity) of
a wind turbine exceeds those of nuclear.

> Before you even get into the ancillary crap needed to attempt to make a
> silk purse out of a pigs ear...


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Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK