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by adwf 949 days ago
Biggest glaring problem for me is that they think it's somehow feasible to build on 7% of all land (for wind and solar combined).

The current estimate of all land built on in the UK is only 8%, they think it's doable to nearly double that?
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nl 948 days ago
It's not "building on" in the "estimate of all land built on" sense. It's putting windfarms in existing agricultural land, where the farmland remains but has windmills in it too.

[1] gives a range of around 5MW/km2 to 20MM/km2, which assuming 10MW turbines is roughly 1 turbine per square km.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/Wind...

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adwf 948 days ago
Yes, but that's still kinda crazy. One turbine every square km means you'd never be out of sight of a turbine anywhere in the country... No unspoilt views, no hilly (therefore windy) landscape untarnished, etc.
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