Posted on 11/16/2019 3:27:03 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
“You would allow the government be in charge of any of that?
Blocking the sun?”
Well, that’s not my point. My point is that the SAME PEOPLE who want government to be in charge of everything, don’t even propose the obvious solution to too much heating of the planet...and, obviously, the government (or some group of governments) would be in charge of that. So why don’t they? And that’s my point.
Not sure if that is still the case now.
We have about a dozen blade type wind turbine manufacturers just in the State of Iowa.
Seems to me it would have been easier to build 4 or 5 smaller towers which could fit in place of the “dome” sized one you were speaking of. That way if one went out for repairs the others would still be producing their combined 750 to 800 thousand watts....as opposed to losing the entire megawatt productivity when the “big one” went down and had to shut down for repairs.
Wind power scales to the area in sq ft of the air inlet or blade rotor area.
Smaller distributed turbines have the advantages you mention but the push is for larger rotor diameters to get max power and the higher towers get the blades into clean airflow and away from ground turbulence
Well, they have to do that, lest tsunami’s and earthquakes destroy their nuclear power plants, none of which are built on shorelines and in earthquake prone areas as East German Communist born Merkle used as her reasoning for closing them.
#4 I bet birds get sucked in and “cuisinarted” : )
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