Ed Huntress wrote:

"Ed Huntress" wrote in message news:...

"john" wrote in message
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This one nuke plant dwarfs the output of all the windmill generation
systems in the whole country.

19,046,000 megawatt-hour facility vs 26.6 billion kWh per year


http://www.pplweb.com/ppl+generation...fact+sheet.htm

Uh, John, you've got generating capacity rates and Watt-hours a bit mixed
up. The PPL Susquehanna nuke plant is a 2.4 MW facility. The installed
wind power capacity in the US is 22.0 MW -- almost ten times as much as
PPL's nuke. PPL produces 19.0 terawatt-hours of energy per year from that
plant. Wind energy produced in the US is 48 TWh per year -- 2-1/2 times as
much as PPL's nuke, and roughly 2,000 times as much as you state above.


Ugh. I hate this giga, mega, tera business. Anyway. all of those
*relationships* are accurate as I stated them, but the second and third
sentences should read: " The PPL Susquehanna nuke plant is a 2.4 GW
facility. The installed wind power capacity in the US is 22.0 GW -- almost
ten times as much as PPL's nuke."

There. The rest of the numbers should be right.

Itotally agree with your numnbers, thanks again.


the key word is capacity. The nuke plant can put out the capacity day
after day. Thw windmills can achieve their capacity only if the
weatherman lets them. according to power company in Wisconson that
has a windfarm, the expected energy delivery from a farm is only 30 to
35 % of capacity which actually still makes its output more than the PPL
plant, but then looking further into it the output comes when it's
mostly not needed, at night and this fluxuation screws up the orderly
flow of power in the grid.


John