[biblewonk]

No 1 windfarm (with thousands of turbines) makes megawatts but costs the same as a nuke plant that makes gigawatts. Which is the simple truth and is why windfarms are not ready for primetime.

The average windmill today is about 1.3 mw. 1000 of them could cost 1.3 billion dollars and produce 33 percent of nameplate power. A 1.3 gw nuke would cost what a billion dollars or so plus refuelling and produces about 85 percent of nameplate power. Once again your numbers are way off because you don't really know much about modern wind power. All that really matters is cost per kwhr and wind power is about 3-5 cents per kwhr. Nukes are pretty close to that.

You repeatedly exagerate a difference of about 50 percent in cost to thousands of percents. Maybe you need to update from your 1980's data and realize that windpower is here now.

[discostu]

Way to play with the numbers, Altamont has SEVEN thousand turbines and doesn't even produce 1 GW. Maybe you need to deal with NOW instead of imaginary projections.