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Decarbonizing the Grid Means Using a Lot More Land to Produce Electricity
Real clear science ^ | July 11, 2022 | Ross Pomeroy

Posted on 08/23/2022 6:02:52 AM PDT by daniel1212

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Windmills enough to power the continental US would need an area slightly larger than the state of Nevada. And all that land area becomes uninhabitable because of the noise from the spinning rotor blades and the subsonic ‘thrum’ the windmill induces into the ground.

Enough nuclear power plants to power the continental US all could be fit inside Dallas County. And human people still could live alongside them.


21 posted on 08/23/2022 7:42:35 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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I read that to replace the electricity demand of New York City it would take a wind farm the size of Connecticut.

We just have to tell our friends in Hartford and Stamford to move so NYC can go green. Of course, if the wind is not blowing well on any day, we probably need part of New Jersey as a backup.


22 posted on 08/23/2022 7:55:15 AM PDT by bigred44
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Not if we promote nuclear power.


23 posted on 08/23/2022 8:12:09 AM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: daniel1212

The ruling class is preparing a regimen of extermination. The environmental line is just a ploy. They are ployers.


24 posted on 08/23/2022 9:30:41 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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These are the same ahole researchers who want to suck carbon out of the atmosphere, I guess they forgot the we are carbon based life


25 posted on 08/23/2022 10:11:54 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!you)
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To: PreciousLiberty
Why are we even generating electricity on this planet?

Gerard O'neill, several decades ago advocated power generation in space. We have all the technology on the shelf.

Go to the moon and/or asteroids. Mine and smelt all the metals needed to build the power plants there with 1/6 gravity on the moon and less on asteroids.

Launch the materials from there to small factories in orbit around the earth and construct the power plants in geosynchronous orbits.

These would be simple steam generators. If you understand how a steam generator works, half of the power comes from the steam, the other half from the suction of condensing the steam.

A power plant in orbit would have the ultimate heat on the sun side of the plant, and the ultimate cold on the shaded side.

You beam the power to earth with microwave energy to converter stations.

You wouldn't need a huge grid of power lines as receiver and converter stations could be located in local areas.

I expected, back in the 1970s that well before now this would be where our power came from.

26 posted on 08/23/2022 11:46:05 AM PDT by Mogger
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"Prognosis: As energy costs rise, food become too expensive to buy. Food riots begin; the country becomes ungovernable, except by brute force; America"

accepts dictatorship in trading freedom for "security."

27 posted on 08/23/2022 1:01:39 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned+destitute sinner, trust Him who saves, be baptized + follow Him!)
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Feudal rule makes modern dictatorship look like heaven on earth. Read more about the previous systems of energy usage and how it was managed under feudal rule in the Middle Ages.

Under feudal rule the only “secure” people are the rulers. People become peasants and are nothing, fit only to be raped and used for target practice.


28 posted on 08/23/2022 2:58:22 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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‘Decarbonizing’ the power grid means destabilizing the power grid. No, the green communists won’t go for nuclear; it’s too reliable and too environmentally friendly. That’s the last thing they want. An unstable and unreliable grid for us peons is exactly what they want.


29 posted on 08/23/2022 3:03:35 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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