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To: roadcat

Let me know when wind generates 90% of your electricity.

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Never happen in my lifetime or my future grandchildren’s.


14 posted on 05/29/2015 5:11:58 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney
You say Texas makes 10 percent electricity from wind. Here in California, "renewables" make up 13.5 percent of the generated electricity. Some of that is wind. But a large portion is geothermal. A group of geothermal plants is just north of San Francisco, called "The Geysers". Before retiring, my wife worked for our local utility and had to sometimes travel there for her job. Stank of sulphur. All natural, doesn't harm animals, and is a great source for electrical generation. It supplies much of the electricity for Northern California north of San Francisco. Hydroelectric generation is 10 percent, nuclear is 15 percent. She also visited her company's Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, which we should have more of, but environmentalists won't allow more. Government forced her company to sell off "The Geysers" along with some other sites to break up its monopoly over power. Almost 50 percent of power generation comes from natural gas.

So I think wind power generation is not going to make an appreciable difference in power generation. Too costly, too many problems with it. And far better methods already in use.

15 posted on 05/29/2015 10:54:21 AM PDT by roadcat
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