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#335: The overlooked tradeoffs of "renewable" energy with Brian Gitt

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The Land Use of Wind and Solar Is a Ton of Land

A wind farm uses 360 times the amount of land as a nuclear power plant to generate the same amount of electricity. A natural gas plos. takes up about 13 square miles, that's 13 square miles. I may imagine that versus a natural gas power plant of the same generating capacity could fit on a single city block. And you're usually destroying either farm land, forest or native habitat for species. That's very robust lysis and criteria to think about.

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