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FBaggins

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1. Simply incredible. Need pics!

Reply to Dead_Parrot (Original post)

Thu Mar 22, 2012, 03:53 PM

Mar 2012

I see 'people' has replaced 'homes' as the SI unit of energy. Rant, rave...

And their math appears faulty. If a 6MW turbine produces enough for 6,000 people... roughly 50 times as much generation should support roughly 300,000 people... not 600,000.

But I do like that "SI unit" better if it's truly a measure of kWh/year vs. demand per person in kWh/year. It's still not a clean comparison... but it's lots closer.

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Largest wind turbine placed in Belgium [View all] Dead_Parrot Mar 2012 OP

Simply incredible. Need pics! FBaggins Mar 2012 #1

It's inflation Confusious Mar 2012 #2

A 6mw turbine and all you can do is carp about that kind of crap? kristopher Mar 2012 #3

Did you say something? Confusious Mar 2012 #4

Efforts to get to 15MW are ongoing FogerRox Mar 2012 #5