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To: cripplecreek
“The $250 million Lake Winds Energy Park development in Mason County’s Riverton and Summit townships, between Ludington and Pentwater, generates 100.8 megawatts of electricity”

That is an installed cost of $2.5 million per MW for interruptible power supply. That is ridiculous. Taxpayers and ratepayers are subsidizing this monstrosity. Neighbors are getting sick.

5 posted on 04/08/2013 4:48:21 PM PDT by detective
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To: detective
That is an installed cost of $2.5 million per MW for interruptible power supply. That is ridiculous. Taxpayers and ratepayers are subsidizing this monstrosity.

To be fair, power is measured by the KW/hr. So, the $2.5 Million per KW isn't really accurate. We need to add whatever maintenance is required, and then figure out what the meaningful life expectancy of the windmill is expected to be, then add whatever cost it takes to tear it down, haul it away and scrap it.

I submit that the true cost is somewhat less than $2.5 Million/KW; but multiple times higher than other forms of electrical generation. Say, Nuclear for example - very safe, very economical, very efficient and very dependable. We power our aircraft carriers and submarines with it; and those reactors are carried into war. Been doing this for nearly 40 years.

Even though France (Libtard utopia) gets 85% of their energy from nuclear power; we can't because some Libtards saw a scary movie back in the 1970's.

7 posted on 04/08/2013 4:57:16 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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