[ RadSafe ] Re: radsafe Digest, Vol 22, Issue 3

[Franta, Jaroslav]

I don't know about steel mills, but here in Quebec we have several large
aluminum smelters, which use on the order of 200 MWe each (it is largely due
these plants that Quebec actually has a higher electrical consumption rate
than the much more populous and industrialised province of Ontario).

With a typical capacity factor of about 25% (19% for all the windmills in
Germany), you would need about 800 one-megawatt windmills to provide that
much power, averaged over a year.
But you'd still need backup sources for when the wind doesn't blow.....  (in
Quebec, we are fortunate to be able to "store" excess wind power production
by closing hydro dam gates and letting water accumulate in the
reservoirs....)

Jaro 


-----Original Message-----
From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday June 15, 2005 9:50 AM
To: Maury Siskel; Mark Sonter
Cc: radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re: radsafe Digest, Vol 22, Issue 3


Just out of curiousity, how many windmills would it
take to power a steel mill?  Or a city of 1 million
people?  Not just their homes.






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