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The “emegency” was not enough profits for the fossil fuels industry, rather than a need for the electricity an ancient coal-burning power plant might generate, and the Trump administration plan has been to prevent all coal-burning power plants from shutting down — even if they’re already broken, don’t work, aren’t needed, or are simply more expensive than wind, solar, and utility-scale batteries.
Wind is just infinitely cheaper than coal in every way. The scrubbers for sulfur alone in a 200 MW plant cost just to keep it from killing everyone and everything around are $400 million. A 2MW commercial wind turbine cost $4 million to install roughly $65k a year to maintain, which include admin, legal, leases, etc. so 200 MW of wind cost about the same as just the scrubbers in coal plant and $650k to maintain, vs Millions in maintenance in coal. Wind is not just greener, it is cheaper and better. The power source to turn the turbine is free!
Not that I’m disagreeing with your point, but $65k multiplied by a hundred is $6.5 million, not $650k
Yeah that is true…
Do you have the values on which these back-of-the-napkin calculations were based? As a natural sciences teacher, I’d love to discuss it with my students as an example.
Wind Turbine:
https://sigmaearth.com/cost-analysis-how-much-do-commercial-wind-turbines-really-cost/
Part of the Coal - ie scrubber costs
https://mostpolicyinitiative.org/science-note/cost-of-coal-power-plants/
Thank you!!
But what about the birdsssssss