/sci/ - Science & Math

Quick question, I'm not anti-nuclear (Living in Illinois - 11 active nuclear power plants and we ship our nuclear waste to New Jersey lulz), but I still support the idea of huge wind farms before nuclear facilities.

I know that the Vestas ocean turbines corroded, had to be replaced, huge cost to the Danish. The are the problems with birds and the equations that show that not enough turbines can be built to support growing populations and replace our dependency on burnable fossil fuels. But those same equations have been applied to nuclear facilities with the same results.

The economic implications of building a new facility, the amount of construction materials involved, along with the huge costs of nuclear materials don't appear to be any more feasible in the long term than Wind Turbines.

tl;dr Convince a hardcore windy to jump nuclear.