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To: Constantine XIII
To put that in perspective, it takes roughly a decade to build a nuclear power plant. So that's ~500MW/year capacity for solar compared to ~100MW/year capacity for nuclear.

Nuclear construction is not limited to 100 MW/year. The new Texas reactors will result in 1356 * 2 MW in 9 years and that is only one site. That is from announcement to commercial. Actual construction might be say 5 years per plant and we could easily construct many plants at the same time with existing infrastructure. We could probably put more than 8000 MW of capacity on-line each year.

77 posted on 06/24/2006 1:25:05 PM PDT by OmahaFields
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To: OmahaFields

You're right, I'm comparing apples and Fords. :P

Sorry!


79 posted on 06/24/2006 1:28:15 PM PDT by Constantine XIII
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