WIND vs NUCLEAR in ONTARIO Pulled the excerpt below from… https://www.windontario.ca/ Also consider that 1750MW reactors that are currently coming on line would require 1,170 1.5MW wind turbines to generate the equivalent electrical energy. A reactor has a life span of up to 80 years, wind turbine maybe 20 years. Wind verses Nuclear - Nuclear power costs 6.8 cents per kwh, period.
Wind power costs 11-13.5 cents per kwh, plus all other costs mentioned above. - One wind project approved for the area east of Grand Bend is approximately 34 km long and 16 km wide.
The nuclear footprint is 9 sq. kilometers. - It will have 63 wind turbines with a maximum output of 102 mwh.
- Applying efficiency factor of 30%, actual output will be 30 mwh.
- Ontario average usage is 18,000 mwh.
- Nuclear can provide approximately 12,947 mwh 24/7.
- This wind project has the potential of providing .16% (1/6th of one percent) our energy needs.
- When there is no wind, it will provide 0% of our energy needs.
Map In 10-20 years - The Niagara Falls hydro generating stations are 100 years old, but wind turbines are good for only 10-20 years.
- Each turbine construction consists of 800 tonnes of cement for support, approximately 250 tonnes of unrecyclable materials, 700 litres of hydraulic fuel and, 600 kilograms of rare earth metals. Multiply these numbers by 7700 and Ontario is facing a potential ecological conundrum.
- The are no bonds posted to ensure these turbines will be dismantled at the end of their life cycle. It is estimated that a turbine, depending on size, will cost $400,000 to $1,000,000 to dismantle.
- Given that wind companies are predominantly foreign, change ownership or, go bankrupt, it is quite realistic to expect 100′s or 1,000′s of dead turbines in 20 years and left standing.
- This is happening already. Wind Companies usually don’t fix or dismantle broken turbines and, Ontario already has many non-functioning turbines.
If companies won’t dismantle a couple of turbines now; what about the future ones?. - The Liberals have no plans as to where to dispose these materials, nor have indicated that wind companies will be responsible for the costs of building the landfill sites or depots.
- One can only assume, that the cost to dispose 7700 turbines will be covered by the people of Ontario.
In 10-20 years, we could be faced with a landscape of old, rusted out, broken down turbines.