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How many wind turbines does it take to equal the energy from a barrel of oil?
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∙ 11y ago
Oil has a btu heat value of about 142000 btu's per gallon. The best power plants can convert about 25% of this to electricity.
That amounts to about 875 Kilowatts
If that is used in an hour then that can be replaced by the power of one wind turbine operating at 87% maximum capacity for 1 hour.
Unfortunately Wind turbines do not operate at that high a capacity all the time, they are limited by weather conditions, the same way solar plants are.
There will always be a need for an alternate energy source when using wind or solar power, although these alternate sources do not need to be fossil plants.
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