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1 posted on 02/27/2013 11:22:52 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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Well we still have solar power and biomass...and algae.


2 posted on 02/27/2013 11:25:50 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Is shoveling up the dead birds a green job?


3 posted on 02/27/2013 11:26:42 AM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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Given that wind is only result of differences in pressures at different locations, how does any additional drag on wind decrease future wind sources? That is not making in decrease in the source for wind.

Wind has plenty of problems with subsidies/mandates. But I find little support for claim we will run out of it.


5 posted on 02/27/2013 11:29:51 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Worldwide center for peak wind. Put a wind farm here and our troubles are over.


6 posted on 02/27/2013 11:31:51 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The solution is obvious. All wind turbines must be clustered within a 1/2 mile radius around Capitol Hill.


8 posted on 02/27/2013 11:33:13 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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Plus, isn’t there some concern that the whole continent will take flight with so many propellers going?


9 posted on 02/27/2013 11:33:55 AM PST by Portcall24
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Peak oil; peak gas; peak coal; and now, peak wind.

One thing that there will always be an oversupply of, is the hot air from the global warming scientists and liberals. So, why not harness that? Gore alone could power a whole town.

Crap is known to be an energy source, so, why not go to Washington and harness all of the crap that comes out of there?


10 posted on 02/27/2013 11:35:17 AM PST by adorno (Y)
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Something I stumbled across that's very interesting. It says what we all know to be true about wind not being feasible and suggests what I have suspected about possible damage done by thousands of windmills.

Study: Wind power's role overestimated

"People have often thought there's no upper bound for wind power -- that it's one of the most scalable power sources," Harvard University applied physicist David Keith says.

The thought is based on the belief gusts and breezes aren't likely to "run out" on a global scale in the way oil wells might run dry, he said in a Harvard release Monday.

But an atmospheric modeling study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, suggests a law of diminishing returns when it comes to the largest of wind farms.

Every wind turbine creates a downwind "shadow" in which the air has been slowed by drag on the turbine's blades, so turbines have to be spaced far enough apart to reduce the effect of these wind shadows.

But as wind farms grow larger, Keith said, they start to interact and regional-scale wind patterns matter more.


Its basic high school physics children. I'm a highschool dropout and even I know that when you convert kinetic wind energy into electricity, you have lost that kinetic wind energy.
16 posted on 02/27/2013 11:54:16 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Taking all that power out of the wind may affect the climate! Conservation of energy presumably still applies. Is a slow-wind weather our future?


19 posted on 02/27/2013 12:15:52 PM PST by Chad_the_Impaler
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Predicted many centuries ago:

Revelation 7:1
“And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.”


20 posted on 02/27/2013 12:20:33 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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I want to know when the hot air coming out of universities will peak.


27 posted on 02/27/2013 12:54:36 PM PST by DannyTN
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If we connected professor’s jaws to generators we wouldn’t need any other wind power.


28 posted on 02/27/2013 12:55:44 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

A few years back I would NEVER have given this much thought BUT since this regime I have learned that there are 57(58?) states, J O B S is a 3 letter word, A sitting Congressflake is a freed slave, Another sitting congressflake thinks an island will sink from too many Marines, yet another congressflake tells me that sharks are patrolling the routes the slave ships took 200 years ago in search of a meal, People drawing unemployment/welfare checks actually grow the economy (from another SR congressflake), a Former President said there is NO difference between a person drawing Ret Military pay, ret Fed Svc Pay, SSA and welfare as they are all Government issued checks and such, also am amazed that a person can take a # - say 50 billion and be able to address every ‘group’ in the country like that 50 billion is coming out of the job/classification/Dept that the person is addressing, not that if split up amongst ALL agnecies would be a start...
And the co-conspirators of the Media carry the water and keep the ‘Chicken Little’ game up...

So, in light of my new book learning,

I will start worrying if they get enough windmills erected, in synch etc will the planet fly off to another galaxy?


35 posted on 02/27/2013 4:23:27 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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37 posted on 03/03/2013 4:59:16 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Drag Me From Hell!)
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38 posted on 03/03/2013 4:59:42 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Drag Me From Hell!)
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