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Originally Posted by Norrin Radd
How many taxpayer dollars were used to set up the nuclear industry in France?
Why not go the route of Spain instead?
is one of the three world’s largest users of wind power with an installed capacity of 15,515 MW at January 2008.[1]
On particular windy days, wind power generation has surpassed all other electricity sources in Spain.[2] Wind farms are known as parques eólicos in Spain, eólico being an adjectival form of Aeolus. On April 18, 2008 the all time peak for wind generation was seen (10,879 MW, 32% of Spain's power requirement).[3]--WIKI
32% in a relatively short period of time.
Of course we don't want to do that, as it would not allow the energy monopoly to keep raping the American people, while lobbying Congress for tax breaks.
For an energy source that is not economically feasible, sure is strange that Spain would invest in wind power capable of providing over 10,000 MW of electricity.
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Of course start-up costs are high for new nuke plants. And, I imagine that a ton of taxpayer dollars was invested a while ago in nuclear energy. Yet, France is seeing some long-term payoffs from those investments with their export of energy. Spain is not exporting anything at this point. Perhaps, they will in some time, but they are only able to provide 32% of their own needs, currently. They haven't even reached the ability to provide their own needs, let alone export excess for profit.