Posted on 12/16/2009 1:07:52 PM PST by reaganrevolutionin2010
A collective gasp was heard when computer enhanced photographs depicting numerous wind turbine generators were shown in Lake Michigan off Pentwater harbor and Little Point Sable at informational meeting in Scottville Tuesday night.
The photos were included as part of the public presentation before a full house at West Shore Community College by wind farm developer Scandia Wind LLC.
“It’s (Lake Michigan) more beautiful without them. Even I recognize that,” said Harald Dirdal, a project manager with Havgul Clean Energy of Norway.
Scandia Wind LLC is exploring the possibility of constructing an estimated $3 billion, 1,000 megawatt wind farm in Lake Michigan over a 100 square mile area from the Ludington Pumped Storage facility to Silver Lake.
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You are sadly mistaken.
There was a woman on Dennis Prager about 4 months ago. She has written a pro-nuclear energy book and debunks the feasibility of solar and windmill farms. She used to be an anti-nuke fanatic. He said he would post her book title on his site, but I never saw it. Can’t remember her name.
Actually, it’s those who think windpower is feasible without storage that are sadly mistaken.........cause it’s a simple matter that when the wind does not blow, people don’t turn off their electrical usage. You may want to live like a luddite, but most of us don’t.
Soon the country will get 3 percent of it’s power from wind, then 4, then 5...
So why are we doing something this stupid? Does it somehow make you feel better?
They are against windmills, hydro power, coal, atomic energy, geothermal power, and probably solar panels next.
This wind business is an absolute con. There are MASSIVE fields of natural gas underneath the eastern seaboard. The consters have infiltrated the Dept of energy and have bought enough congresscritters to force us to pay for their machinations.
Backup is accomplished with hydro which can often be switched on and off in a heartbeat, natural gas which also can also be turned on rapidly and coal which has many levels of backup. So you're wrong.
You know absolutely nothing about this stuff do you?
“...pumped storage...”
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Our public utility here in Georgia does that.
Heartbeat is relative to a cold coal fired plant.
I need more info. How much energy from what is stored by pumping what into what? They are experimenting with pumping air into mines here in Iowa and there are also schemes where water is pumped back into dammed reservoirs.
Me too, but not from my patio.
“We want electricity, but we don’t want anything that actually generates electricity anywhere near us. We expect that infinite quantities of electricity will be made in ‘some other place’ without any harm to any living thing and will be transported at no cost to our electric outlets.”
PERFECTLY stated!
At least nukes are efficient, consistent and actually work.
The word backup does not occur in that list of complaints.
So why are they doing this? Ans: Cause it makes them feel better and intellectually superior typical lib reasoning.
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