Re: GERMANY SUBSTITUTES WIND FOR NUCLEAR POWER

[Harald Weiss <weiss@KI.COMCITY.DE>]

Franta, Jaroslav schrieb:

> 

> And another thing...  a colleague just pointed out that Germany's nuclear

> reactors produced (Nucleonics Week Feb 8 2001) a gross of 169,657,300 MWhe

> in 2000 (169.66 TWhe).  If you assume an 8% internal consumption of the

> electricity (a conservatively high number) for pumps and such, the net

> production was 156.1 TWhe.  So the 75 to 80 TWhe is actually at most 48 to

> 51% of Germany's 2001 nuclear production, not "nearly 60%" as claimed by

> Trittin.

> Quite a tangle of lies, huh ?

> 



Hi Jaro,



this is an easy one. Trittin takes into account the decrease in power

consumption he hopes to achieve. And when you look at the cost of wind

power plants (the real costs, without subventions) he might even be

right.



Greetings from the baltic sea



Harald





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