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To: DungeonMaster
I'm sure the people between the offshore windmills and Iowa would enjoy the 500kV or HIGHER voltage transmission towers/lines/rights-of-way necessary for Iowan's would love to have the wind energy from Nantucket. The infrastructure necessary to deliver windpower to load centers is ALWAYS ignored by the greenies, and the PRACTICALITY of electrical power delivery is neglected.

Second, the acres necessary ON LAND to produce the power from wind propellers is shown in the math, again, as follows:

Let's do the math.... let's say there are approximately 10,000 power plants in the USA and just for the fun of it let's say they are all of typical size... if wind farms were to replace them, they would cover 3,000,000 square miles. The USA itself is 3,537,441 square miles. Boggles the mind doesn't it? (In order for wind to generate enough power to replace a typical power plant it would take up to 300 square miles of wind turbines. That is the size (and view) of New York City for one replacement wind farm!

Which part of the REMAINING 537,441 square miles will the 300 million population get to occupy in your propeller-utopia?

71 posted on 01/24/2007 8:17:12 AM PST by traditional1
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To: traditional1

You post gross errors combined with arrogance. Have a nice day.


72 posted on 01/24/2007 8:18:18 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Acts 17:11 also known as sola scriptura.)
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