[repinwi]

Helping the environment and lowering the price?

[RayChuang88]

The last I heard is that they're going to build the wind farm southeast of Nantucket Island, mostly because of fears of boating and low-level-flight aviation navigation hazards if they build the windfarm between Nantucket Island and the mainland as originally proposed.

[kellynla]

Can someone who knows about these things tell me; is this so called wind power less costly and more cost efficient than nuclear?
Bottom line, is the ROI in wind power better than nuclear?

I personally like the idea of a combination nuclear/desalination/electrical generating ocean plant.

thanks in advance

[DTogo]

YES!!

[xcamel]

Truth check:

It still takes 12 to 15 years for an "average" modern windmill to produce enough electricity to pay for it's own creation.
Worse, now they're using "exotic" materials to make them which produce a high level of potential environmental damage and problems with toxic disposal.

[Zrob]

>The Alliance is a well-organized, well-funded group of local residents who have been working to stop the Cape Wind project since it was first proposed.


Read: that well-known environmentalist, swimming instructor and friend of the whales, Teddy Kennedy

[PeterPrinciple]

I have yet to see a good economic analysis of wind power with numbers. Is it because the msn is too stupid to understand or they think we can't understand.

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[Kevin OMalley]

read later bump

[TheMightyQuinn]

Maybe someone can answer this question I have about windfarms:

I've seen a number of them, and rarely do I see more than 25% of the windmills in use at a time, even though they're all facing the same direction. Why aren't they all used?