America Is Getting More Power from Renewables than From Nuclear

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24. Roughly 4-5 times as much is "swamping" in my estimation

I'm pretty sure that it fits most uses. If I have three times as much work as normal... I'm pretty "swamped". No?

Nuclear has spend three decades in gradual decline while wind power is growing more rapidly than ever (ignoring short-term fluctuations).

Comparing project to project is not terribly helpful. For example, a small town may erect a wind turbine or 2 (how many small towns will erect a nuclear plant?) Does that mean that nuclear is swamping wind? Or does it mean that wind is swamping nuclear?

Pointing out that this single nuclear expansion (two units), when operational, will produce about as much electricity annually as the current ten largest wind plants in the world (many covering tens of thousands of acres) is certainly relevant... and there could easily be three or four such projects starting up in the next two or three years.

What I don't see is why one or the other has to be "winning"... so long as coal starts losing. Nothing would make me happier than to see this competition ramp up tenfold in the coming years.