Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: DungeonMaster

It wasn’t personal to you, but it was a diss of wind believers who won’t deal with the very real and serious problems of the technology. Wind power is fine for some apllications, great for farms that need to pump water, or for people who have no grid and can handle intermittent power. It’s simply not ready to be a player en masse and all the wishing or hoping or labelling it as free and clean isn’t going to make the turbines generate power when the wind isn’t blowing.


67 posted on 12/26/2009 11:16:43 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies ]


To: Lakeshark
It wasn’t personal to you, but it was a diss of wind believers who won’t deal with the very real and serious problems of the technology.

It seemed personal. It's fine for you to have problems with wind energy but going personal isn't.

I understand how the grid works and I realize that there are spinning reserves waiting to go on line. I also understand that demand rises and falls in a very predictable way every day and this all has to be managed to within about 1 percent supply exactly matching demand on the grid at all times. But it is not correct to think that no other resource is saved when wind power is on the grid. I have no doubt at all that Denmark could screw up their use of wind energy or a soup sandwitch for that matter. I loathe Countries where Homeschooling is illegal. But here in Iowa, we have 3,000 mw of wind power which produce about 7,000,000 mhwr of power in a year. That power goes to the grid and something else is curtailed. I agree that said curtailment is not 100 percent.

73 posted on 12/28/2009 8:38:34 AM PST by DungeonMaster (camel, eye of a needle; rich man, heaven)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson