• Narrrz@kbin.social
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    even if it did, so what?

    oh, saving the planet is too expensive, so we’re just going to let it die to save money

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      I realise you’re being facetious and I do agree with your sentiment… But I guess if this was true we could/should look at potential other, cheaper, alternatives (like invest in more wave abs geothermal power)

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      If it cost 1000s of 10,000s a month to simply cook food, it would probably not be worth the cost to save the planet. That’s how high they expensive they expected wind to be in their calculations.

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    Rightwing thinktank Civitas mistakenly cost onshore wind power 10,000 times higher than reality and claimed bill would be £4.5tn

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      Feel like its a common mistake to mix up kW and kWh, but if you don’t know the basics of power you shouldn’t be trying to write on the topic and any peer reviewer should know the cost of onshore wind is in the cents per kWh, not 100’s of dollars per kWh if someone has even if only from paying attention to their own electric bill.

      Also apparently mixed billions and trillions at one point? Just a small factor of a 3 (orders of magnitudes).