Comments on: Giant Japanese Wind Farm To Replace Fukushima Power Plant http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/23/giant-japanese-wind-farm-to-replace-fukushima-power-plant/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: joey http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/23/giant-japanese-wind-farm-to-replace-fukushima-power-plant/#comment-154193 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:36:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47399#comment-154193 what a crock of shit. fukushima is a radioactive hellhole

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/23/giant-japanese-wind-farm-to-replace-fukushima-power-plant/#comment-148102 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:27:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47399#comment-148102 You’re on the low side with your wind capacity numbers.

In the US onshore is running 38% median, 50% maximum. Offshore is predicted at 43% median, 54% maximum.

Expect new installations to be in the maximum area as they will be build with the latest technology and siting information.

http://en.openei.org/apps/TCDB/

The title of this piece is not the best. The 1 GW wind farm won’t replace the 6 Fukushima reactors which had a total output of 4.7 GWs. Total wind farm output will be only a small piece of the replacement. Probably a bit higher than your estimate. (Remember, reactors don’t operate 100% of the time.)

It would have been more accurate to say that the wind farm is being built where the reactors used to be. That the wind farm will take advantage of the transmission lines that the reactors once used.

Perhaps over time the wind farm can be enlarged and solar installed over the ruined land and output can be replaced.

]]> By: PGEE http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/23/giant-japanese-wind-farm-to-replace-fukushima-power-plant/#comment-148082 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:49:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47399#comment-148082 Except when it explodes and ruins the entire eco system for untold generations to come …no contest.

]]> By: MieScatter http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/23/giant-japanese-wind-farm-to-replace-fukushima-power-plant/#comment-147928 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:27:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47399#comment-147928 “When a wind farm is stated to be a certain number of MW or GW, that is normally the total generation capacity, so that is what you should assume.”

Average output is a better (but not the only) guide. 1 GW of offshore wind should be somewhere around 300 MW of average output. Fukushima’s 4.7 GW produced an average of between 3300 MW and 4200 MW. So this wind farm should replace somewhere between 7% and 9% of Fukushima.

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