"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.

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Ed Huntress