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Okay cbc, how do those numbers add up?
One turbine for every 12.5km²? Seems like a pretty reasonable spread accounting for space in between and geographical features they may have to avoid.
Is that normal now? The ones pictured in the article and all of those I've personally seen are more closely spaced. But guess they've been getting bigger over time and it would be on-brand for Hydro Québec to go for extra large ones with a few kilometers between them.
... just looking at numbers from around the web it seems like even the largest turbines around don't normally require that much area. 5000km² seems like roughly an order of magnitude more space than might be expected. I imagine it's probably the total area of the region they'll be built somewhere inside of.
Yeah, I think you are right in that idea. Realistically they will be clumped in high wind areas within that 5000km².
Yeah, that'd be where it came from. Anyway I was just trying to mentally compare the size of a wind farm to the size of a typical hydro reservoir. Conclusion: They're both pretty big.