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A solar farm that produces the same power as a nuclear power station (1GW) requires 1000 3MW turbines (33% efficiency) at 700 meters apart.

That's 500 square kilometers of turbines (something like 200 square miles).

I once did the calculation and it came out to something like 10 times as much concrete and steel to build the turbines as it would have taken to build the nuclear power plant.



Did you mean wind instead of solar? Or panels instead of turbines?


yes, I mean wind, thank you.


> 10 times as much concrete and steel to build the turbines as to build the nuclear power plant

But all those materials are 100% recyclable as raw matters the next week after the wind turbines close.

With nuclear, you can't touch those iron an concrete in generations. And we need to include in our calculus the two concrete sarcophagous that were required in Chernobyl also. We will be pouring tons of concrete for a lot of time in that place.





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