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Originally Posted by debaser
Viable, will. You can't power the even a medium sized city with wind or hydro. And hydro opens up a whole new can of worms (ie flooding large areas and destroying ecosystems)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itaipu_Dam
The Itaipu Damn puts out 12.6GW. The largest nuclear reactor in the world puts out 3.0GW.
To put it in layman's terms (which I need, I don't know jack about electricity), The Itaipu Damn powers all of Paraguay and part of Brazil. 34 billion kWh is enough electricity a year to run NYC. Itaipu puts out about 93.4 billion kWh per year. So this one damn alone can power almost 3 whole New York Cities.