I hear a lot of stuff about Chernobyl, but this is entirely a new one.
The CAISO real time power analysis for the entire State of California is here: CAISO Real Time Supply As of this writing, 16:50 PDT, (4:50 PM, PDT) all of the wind turbines in the entire State of California, spread over thousands of sq. km of land, are producing 2,963 MW of power.
It might be the case, although since I monitor the CAISO website frequently that at some point, California, might, for an hour or two, produce 4,000 MW or more of wind power if the wind is blowing hard. It's rare, but it happens some time. On the other hand, today, July 15, 2021, at 9:05 PDT in the morning, all of the wind turbines in California, the entire State, were producing 1,227 MWe of power.
The predicted peak power for the State of California posted on the CAISO website for July 15, 2021 is 37,473 MW. This means the claim amounts to saying that the Soviet Union built 4000 MWe of nuclear capacity to power an antenna that consumed 4000/37,500 = .10 = 10% as much as the entire State of California to power an antenna.
Do you stand by this claim?
As I noted in a recent post here, the Tehachapi Wind Resources Area, spread over 2,100 square km, has a peak capacity of 3,507 MW, not that it ever, even for a minute, produces that much power. Busbar Electricity Prices at the Tehachapi Wind Farm This Evening.
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is occupies 2,600 sq km, and thus is slightly larger than the ecosystem torn apart and industrialized to build the Techachapi wind parks, which are only some of the wind parks in California.
Are you telling me that all the wind turbines in California could have all of their energy devoted to operating a single antenna? Is this what's circulating in the circle of websites claiming that so called "renewable energy" will save the world?
It might be time to do some math.
30,000,000 MWh*3600 sec/hr *1000 W/kw = 1.08 * 10^(14) J, given that a watt is a J/sec.
1.08 X10^(14)( J/year)/31,556,600 (seconds/year) = 3,422,313 J/s, = 3,422,313 W which at 1,000,000 W/MW works out to 3.4 MW of average continuous power.
This is 3.4/4000 = 0.09% of the power level of the 4 nuclear plants when they were operating at full power, which many nuclear reactors, even crappy RBMK reactors, are capable of doing for long stretches of time.
The point of pointing to wind turbines on the abandoned antenna towers would be what? That symbolism trumps reality?
Ukraine [istill gets almost 50% of its electricity from nuclear power.]
Unlike Germany, they are unwilling to become dependent on Russian gas during periods of dunkelflaute to keep the lights on.
It is useful to do the math when making a claim.
Have a nice evening.
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