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Monday, February 27, 2006 12:00 AM

Blowing away the nukes

Wind power is booming. So is nuclear power. Which is cheaper?
Andrew Leonard

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  • Saturday, March 4, 2006 10:58 AM

    If that 43% growth rate continued...

    then windpower would be producing all electrical energy in about just over 12 years (Google for "(log(100/1.5) /log(1.41)) years" -- it's 1.41 because overall annual energy growth in the world is "about" 2%).

    Exponential growth is great... the question is how long you can keep it up. At a certain point, scale factors start to come into play as you use up the good places to put your fans.

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