Not exact matches
To
put this all
in perspective: «Solar employs slightly more workers than natural gas, over twice as many as coal, over three times that of
wind energy, and almost five times the number employed
in nuclear energy,» the report notes.
I do think
in the future I will also bring up raptors to keep it
in perspective as
in «no environmental group worries about sheer number of birds killed» followed by a comparison to
put raw numbers into
perspective «many do worry about poorly sited
wind generators killing endangered birds, especially raptors» tell the story of Altamont farm and the proposed Exxon farm which was quite properly stopped.
Adding the other two — biomass and hydro —
puts the solar and
wind contributions
in better
perspective (Figure 2).
To
put this
in perspective, a 100MW (roughly average size for Australia)
wind farm can be expected to generate, on average, around 6,000 MWh
in a week and the average weekly power consumption for the whole of SA is about 300,000 MWh.
Editor Sam Hopkins reviews Shell's foray into
wind energy and
puts colleague Chris Nelder's Fox Business TV appearance
in international
perspective.
To
put those numbers
in economic
perspective: Consider that the
wind and solar energy wasted
in China
in 2015 alone could power a large city like Shanghai or Beijing for several months.
We
put together a list of things that kill more birds than
wind turbines to
put that
in perspective.