Re: [Vo]:Wind energy vs NxtGen Fission

2017-07-28 Thread Jed Rothwell
Jones Beene wrote: > On average, wind requires about 200 times as much steel and concrete > structural material as a natural gas turbine plant of the same capacity. > Factoid: a two-megawatt (faceplate) wind turbine weighs about 250 tons (or > more), including the tower, nacelle, generator housin

Re: [Vo]:Wind energy vs NxtGen Fission

2017-07-27 Thread mixent
In reply to Jones Beene's message of Wed, 26 Jul 2017 19:21:03 -0700: Hi, [snip] >On average, wind requires about 200 times as much steel and concrete >structural material as a natural gas turbine plant of the same capacity. >Factoid: a two-megawatt (faceplate) wind turbine weighs about 250 tons