Nuclear is the smallest according to this chart.\u00a0 But it’s more complicated than this.\u00a0 The chart doesn’t tell the whole story.\u00a0\u00a0 Example: hydroelectric is the largest according to the charts.\u00a0 But a dam and its reservoir usually have up to 5 uses.\u00a0 The dam is typically built for flood control.\u00a0 In addition a dam and reservoir are usually built for irrigation.\u00a0 The reservoir is often used for fishing.\u00a0 The reservoir is often used for boating and recreation.\u00a0 So adding the fifth use, generatig hydroelectric power is *not* adding any more actual space to the dam and reservoir – the dam and reservoir would still take up that space even if no hydroelectricity was generated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another example is offshore wind.\u00a0 Very little space on land is needed.\u00a0 All the wind turbines are off the coast.\u00a0 But they don’t show any value for it in the chart<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Nuclear is the smallest according to this chart.\u00a0 But it’s more complicated than this.\u00a0 The chart doesn’t tell the whole story.\u00a0\u00a0 Example: hydroelectric is the largest according to the charts.\u00a0 But a dam and its reservoir usually have up to 5 uses.\u00a0 The dam is typically built for flood control.\u00a0 In addition a dam and <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722],"tags":[3588,951,1459],"class_list":["post-21072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsmedia","tag-chart","tag-kwh","tag-land-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21073,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21072\/revisions\/21073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}