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Isn't there another advantage, that windfarms are incrementally scaleable? More turbines can be added in the future if financing is tight now.

Nuclear is only scaleable in very large steps, hydro the same, gas also (I presume the burning/generating plants are hard to add capacity to?). However, wavepower is probably incrementally scaleable.

I have not seen this argument before, but it seems to be a reasonable one. Or I may be way off the technology: perhaps offshore wind farms are limited by geology? Perhaps preparing the site infrastructure for future increments is too expensive?

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Nov 11th, 2010 at 07:13:52 AM EST
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You're right for nuclear, hydro and I think, coal. But adding another gas turbine to an existing power plant is probably not a lot costlier than adding a wind turbine to a wind farm.

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by Melanchthon on Thu Nov 11th, 2010 at 09:05:08 AM EST
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