Environmental Necessity for Nuclear Power - Part 2: Wind?

WIND POWER - GOOD IDEA - BAD PRACTICE?

          Wind wakes affect the performance of downwind wind turbines.

Cambridge, Mass. – February 25, 2013 –“People have often thought there’s no upper bound for wind power—that it’s one of the most scalable power sources,” says Harvard applied physicist David Keith. After all, gusts and breezes don’t seem likely to “run out” on a global scale in the way oil wells might run dry.

Yet the latest research in mesoscale atmospheric modeling, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, suggests that the generating capacity of large-scale wind farms has been overestimated.

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BRITAIN OPTS FOR NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT OVER RURAL WIND TURBINES

Nuclear power station will avoid 'blight' of 30,000 wind turbines, minister says
A new generation of nuclear power stations will avoid the "blight" of building tens of thousands of wind turbines in the countryside, a minister has said.

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