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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The cost of building a wind plant, just the capital cost…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Live at inman connect

Published | Video Starts at 53:30

So I'm about. I don't like subsidies. Today it costs. The cost of building a solar plant today is a billion dollars a gigawatt. The cost of building a wind plant, just the capital cost, 1.1 billion. And then it's free energy forever. The cost of building a coal plant is 3.6 billion a gigawatt. So it's three or four times the cost of wind and solar. (53:30–53:35)

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Asserts that the capital cost to build a wind plant is $1.1 billion.

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