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		Duff on Aug 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper... Sure, but as a competitor to this technology, that's just more to add to the cost. It will cost many billions of dollars to develop infrastructure to "downblend" waste products, build thorium reactors, litigate, etc.

nitrogen on Aug 30, 2011 [–]

It would cost more to buy enough land to build the wind turbines described in the article.

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