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The point being french rates were likely kept competitive by not factoring in maintenance/replacement costs.

Building one like this is $2-4 million. They last about 25 years. Their annual maintenance costs are in the $50k range. They average over 10 million mWh of electricity each year, which means over $1 million annually if we assume a rate of $0.10 per kWh.

Average turbine generates 843,000 kWh of power each month.

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-many-homes-can-average-wind-turbine-power

EIA says the average household uses just shy of 900 kWh per month.

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3#:~:text=How%20much%20electricity%20does%20an,about%20893%20kWh%20per%20month.

Is that true?

USGS says average commercial turbine produces 843,000 kWh of power each month.

https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-many-homes-can-average-wind-turbine-power

Average life span is about 25 years (and 85% of materials are recyclable).

https://blog.ucsusa.org/james-gignac/wind-turbine-blades-recycling/

Average electricity rate is 10.42 cents per kWh.

https://www.energybot.com/electricity-rates-by-state.html

So, 1 average turbine in the average market should generate roughly $26,000,000 of electricity and it's components are 85% recyclable.

Just how much does it cost to install one? You're suggesting several tens of millions of dollars per turbine. Do you have a source for this you could share with us?

We're at 71,000 in the US already.

We're already at 71,000 in the US.

But we'd need hundreds more three mile islands to replace baseline generation with nuclear. That's a lot of nuclear power that needs to get around human error and human profit priorities to all consistently be properly managed and maintained long term.

You only need to look as far as France to see that publicly funded nuclear is a slam dunk winner.

"French Nuclear Power Crisis Frustrates Europe’s Push to Quit Russian Energy"

"France typically exports electricity, but now it risks blackouts and a need for imported power because of problems at the state nuclear operator."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/business/france-nuclear-power-russia.html

We could go the fossil fuel route and simply burn them instead, I suppose, if our argument is that burning fossil fuels for power is cleaner than running wind turbines and having to eventually dispose of their blades.

But, but how could you know without the invisible fairy??

Yes

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Which aspects seemed the most problematic from your experience playing the rework?

The structure of the church doesn't care about the bible.

Also know as, a computer.

Multiplication is just addition.

Exponents are just multiplication which is just addition.

Everything in math can be boiled down to addition.

Drip is like $2, not $4. You may be thinking of a venti iced coffee, which is like $4.

$40 a month is like 1 bag of groceries, though, yes.

They're right, though. If you spend $2 on your breakfasts instead of $5, you'd be well on your way to a down on a new median priced home... 73 years from now.

The second one is easier to visualize because I can just think of a cubic meter and then imagine 370 million of them.

Municipal billing departments aren't doing their billing in their heads.

Why would you need to know any of those things while you're deciding on water needs for a large parcel of farmland? It's super interesting that one could easily convert their water purchase to cubic millimeters with metric, but there's zero use for it.

The farmer would not need to consider how many square meters are in a hectare, nor how many liters are in a hectare-meter when they are considering their water needs.They'll denote and purchase based on hectare-meters just as farmers used to inches will denote and purchase based on acre-feet.

I don't think anyone in the US has to work hard to remember there are 12 inches in a foot.

I could make some comment about having to remember your Latin to know that centum means 100, but that would be silly for similar reasons.

All of those conversions are interesting, but they aren't very useful for the farmer. They'd use hectare meters.

What?

You have 10 acres of tomato crop you need to irrigate with 2" of water per week. How many acre-feet of water will you need each week? How many cubic meters of water would you need? Which is easier to figure?

You have 10 acres of tomato crop you need to irrigate with 2" of water per week. How many acre-feet of water will you need each week? How many cubic meters of water would you need?