[Tade0]

Last year China added 23GW of wind power.

Adjusted for the capacity factor that's over 5.75GW. Sure, it's not one plant, but quite possibly most of that capacity wasn't commissioned until 2013. Better still, they're just getting started with this.

The beauty of this power source is that it scales great - instead of erecting one 7MW turbine you can do that with any number of them, limited only by your budget.

Meanwhile it takes 5 years to construct a single 1GW block of nuclear and you can't just simultaneously start building another one next to it.

Nuclear won't win, because it's expensive and doesn't scale well.

[Turing_Machine]

"Nuclear won't win, because it's expensive and doesn't scale well."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power_stations

I see several nuclear plants on that list, but not one solar or wind plant.

I think perhaps claims about the latter being "less expensive" and "scaling well" should wait until they've actually been economically operated at scale.