Posted on 04/02/2009 11:50:21 PM PDT by Nachum
How well will these wind turbines be able to stand up to a hurricane?
Yep, you’ve got it... LOL...
“Apart from that nitpicking; I wonder how saturated with windmills America’s coastal waters would need to be to provide “20% of the coastal states” electricity.”
It seems kind of strange that they would put wind turbines out there when they could harness the energy from the waves without the arial mess.
It is strange. Ken Salazar isn’t the sharpest knife in the Democrat drawer though.
“Now what’s going to happen to the climate(s), when all these windmill’s suck all the energy out of the breeze(s)?”
A very good question sir. There’s no free lunch is there?
Wind turbines are only 22% efficient so the number needed to fulfill even 20% of US electric demand is massive. Because wind turbines are dependent on fickle winds there would still have to be a large number of generators to make up for peak demands when the winds do not blow.
I understand that they’re already providing 0.4% of our power! Wow! Less than 1/2 of 1 percent. I’m overwhelmed!
"The wind is my treasure, cushion, and foundation. Master of the wind, I am master of life, and my wind monopoly becomes straightway the object of idolatry. Less rapidly turn the sails of the windmill on my head than the price of shares in my foolish enterprises."
Can’t get more “carbon friendly” than that, lol.
But didn’t Ted Kennedy say “not in my sailing area”.
Where was that picture taken?
Those things are hideous.
You betcha there Ken, especially in the Gulf of Mexico when a Katrina or a Camille comes along.
Probably Kalifornia, where they would consider something like this as ugly and hideous.
What a sight. In a country where homeowner’s associations prohibit a resident from installing a television antenna on his roof because it looks unlike everyone else, we’ll have wind turbines in the yard.
Yeah, right.
Coal-powered windmills? Now, that’s someting I can get behind. Haha
It probably is right, though one needs a lot of instant-on gas turbine generators to kick in when there isn’t enoungh wind.
Of course, the same nitwits who want us to ‘go green’ and get all doey-eyed about polar bears and spotted owls suddenly start NIMBY movements to prevent actual ‘green’ energy facilities from being built where they can see them, so it’s probably politically infeasible.
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