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10. Um, um, um, for decades, while setting the planet to flames, antinukes have been unable to distinguish peak...
Sat Jun 14, 2025, 07:15 AM
21 hrs ago

...capacity with capacity utilization. It's among their many distortions and lies.

One thousand "Megawatts" of wind junk spread over vast areas of land that operates at 30% capacity utilization is NOT equal to a 1000 MW nuclear plant that operates close to 100% capacity utilization.

The 1000 "Megawatt" wind plant is the equivalent of a 300 MW gas plant, and a 1000 MW gas plant (in Germany a coal plant) is required to remain available to back the useless crap up.

In high school, they teach, or should teach, in a high school physics class the distinction between the unit the "Watt" which is a derived unit equal to one Joule/second and a Joule. The energy produced by any device is equal to the time it operates, which in the case of wind junk is considerably less than 50% - in Denmark 25% - depending on where that soon to rot crap is located, and the power output. P*t = E.

A "Joule" is a unit of energy.

There are some pretty good community colleges around. We could perhaps suppress this kind of ignorance if antinukes went to one to take an elementary physics course. If they were to do so, they might be disabused for cheering insipidly for the destruction of the planetary atmosphere.

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