Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Trump COLLAPSES mentally at rally, goes fully genocidal" video.

  1. WHY DOES DAVID - Who is supposedly an intelligent guy keep speaking that crap about wind turbines having a high capital cost. Its a meme that the fossil fuel clowns started and its sadly become an accepted meme among the LEFT MEDIA. I AM AN ENGINEER and this is so annoying to keep hearing. The capital cost of wind depends on a number of factors. 1) Is it in a easy to access site? Offshore is obviously NOT because you need a special jack up barge to do the installation. The top of some hills which are more productive might be harder to access with cranes and other heavy equipment. 2) is it close to an existing grid connection. No matter what type of power anyone builds it has to be connected to the power grid and that is NOT as simple as some wires. As Australia his finding out the Snowy 2.0 project (pumped hydro) has almost tripled in price because its in a very awkward location to connect to the grid. 3) Capital cost must also be measured against the time taken to start earning money which includes the construction time. Hinkley Point C (a nuclear plant and one of the few that ) has an estimated build time of 10 years at a cost of £33B (~$42B USD). That is a staggering amount of money to spend and then wait a decade before you start earning money followed by the years breaking even. Wind turbines take weeks to construct and connect. 4) Similar to the length of time to construct is the question - Can the wind turbines in the wind farm be connected to the grid BEFORE completing the entire wind farm. For both wind and solar it is often possible to connect each wind turbine as its completed or each solar array as its completed. In such a circumstance the wind farm or solar farm is ALREADY earning money before completion and therefore does NOT NEED as much capital to complete. This is almost NEVER possible with coal, hydro or nuclear. If you are building a modular gas turbine power station then that might be able to operate each turbine as its commissioned. This is also one of the things that make Small Modular Reactors practical. There's just the problem that SMRs wont be commercially available until the mid 2030s. So can everyone please stop repeating these ignorant memes about what certain things cost.
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