Excuse me my ignorance, perhaps I am missing something...
21MW is a giant wind farm, while 1000MW is a regular nuclear reactor. How do we intend to replace nuclear with solar and wind? I mean we actually do and seems like we are steadily on that path, I just want to know what am I missing from the big picture to understand exactly how.
Update: nevermind, it's a single wind turbine that makes 21MW, not the whole farm.
1) by building and installing a whole lot of these big turbines to create the "wind farm"
2) by leveraging repetition and incrementalism in building installing a lot of these big turbines: doing it on a shorter and more predictable timescale than a nuclear reactor, at a smaller and more predictable cost than a nuclear reactor, and getting some benefit as soon as a few are up.
3) by, I assume, having lower decommissioning costs than a nuclear reactor.
21MW is a giant wind farm, while 1000MW is a regular nuclear reactor. How do we intend to replace nuclear with solar and wind? I mean we actually do and seems like we are steadily on that path, I just want to know what am I missing from the big picture to understand exactly how.
Update: nevermind, it's a single wind turbine that makes 21MW, not the whole farm.