{"id":2330,"date":"2024-06-14T21:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T02:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:50:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:50:25","slug":"whats-the-rub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2024\/06\/14\/whats-the-rub\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s The Rub?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nuclear power vetoed by the gov &#8211;<br>and Illinois to be a future data center hub. <br>We&#8217;ll need 3 million windmills &#8211; that&#8217;s the rub. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet:06102024<br>www.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt; &lt; &lt; &lt; Madison Hilly &#8211; Exec Dir of Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal.\u00a0 Alan Medsker \u2013 Illinois Coordinator for a Green Nuclear Deal. DH &#8211; Pritzker Sidelines Illinois in Biden\u2019s Long Nuclear Play \u2013 June 10, 2024;   in 2024, the cost of mining necessary materials, manufacturing, transportation, final construction, installation and grid adjustment for each onshore windmill\/turbine (typically 2-3 MW) is approximately $5 million &#8211;  (the averaged total cost from a variety of sources) is approximately $15 trillion (the product of 5 million and 3 millio<strong>n is\u00a015,000 billion &#8211; or 15 trillion) > > > ><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuclear power vetoed by the gov &#8211;and Illinois to be a future data center hub. We&#8217;ll need 3 million windmills &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2024\/06\/14\/whats-the-rub\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What&#8217;s The Rub?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-observations","category-haiku","category-illinois-residents-only"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}