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It seems to me the only way this would work would be to nationalize the electricity grid.

Also, I didn't see in the article any discussion of dissipation of energy during long distance transmission.

1 posted on 02/07/2016 8:37:18 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

Did the author mail away for his EE degree? Sheesh! Vee equals Eye-squared time R. The longer the electic wire the greater the R (resistance). You can’t assume away electrical resistance, it’s intrinsic to the material that the wire is made from.


32 posted on 02/07/2016 9:23:47 AM PST by Tallguy
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Wind mills and solar kill 30 million birds and raptors (and not a few people). I cant imagine what it will be when they up it 100 fold


34 posted on 02/07/2016 9:24:30 AM PST by cassiusking
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This hypothesis that there is enough wind and solar to power a nation is just plain and simple malarchy... unless we become Zimbabwe on the economic scale. Maybe then. Of course, that’s what the Obamanites want.


35 posted on 02/07/2016 9:25:16 AM PST by XEHRpa
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While we have literally been wasting trillions of dollars chasing windmills and rainbows... The German’s and Chinese have been perfecting large scale fusion projects. The Chinese are now able to contain and control and sustain 50,000,000 degree ball of plasma for ten seconds. They are now aiming for ten minutes and 100,000,000 degrees.

Whoever cracks this nut first (and it sure does not look like it is going to be us) will have the world clamoring at their doorstep.


38 posted on 02/07/2016 9:28:25 AM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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39 posted on 02/07/2016 9:30:27 AM PST by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for)
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To: Lorianne

When I see Ms. Zielinski and her friends leading by example, I might give some brief mental consideration to the notion.


40 posted on 02/07/2016 9:33:52 AM PST by Arm_Bears (I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
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All we need is AlGore to feed the gerbil in the rotating cage and it would work.
42 posted on 02/07/2016 9:41:02 AM PST by TYVets
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IF they were serious, they’d be pushin Nukes...


44 posted on 02/07/2016 9:59:38 AM PST by Paradox (I'll vote for either one, I'm not an embarrassing bot like a few (?) others..)
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The study in Nature that they reference is paywalled but some references to that paper talk about offshore wind. That’s what they want to stick us with here in Virginia and that would be a complete disaster.


50 posted on 02/07/2016 10:21:16 AM PST by palmer (Net "neutrality" = Obama turning the internet over to foreign enemies)
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Also, I didn't see in the article any discussion of dissipation of energy during long distance transmission.

Exactly.

51 posted on 02/07/2016 10:40:59 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are. Go Ted.)
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How about, no.


52 posted on 02/07/2016 11:01:33 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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National socialism.


53 posted on 02/07/2016 11:02:22 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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It’s so easy. A massive federal land grab to install billions of solar panels and wind turbines.

The ONLY viable way to save solar and wind power is to build dams. But what are the chances of a couple thousand more dams being built anywhere in the country?

We can’t build nuke plants, can’t build dams, can’t build coal plants, can’t build gas fired plants, can’t build geothermal plants. BUt Siemens and Vestas can get a few trillion dollars in subsidized mandates to build those monstrosities dotting the land scape.


54 posted on 02/07/2016 11:44:12 AM PST by Organic Panic
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The only wind generators I would approve would be mounted outside the windows of tall buildings. Wraparound screens would save the bird-life.
55 posted on 02/07/2016 11:59:47 AM PST by chopperman
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It is even easier. Energy would cost so much more that much less of it would need to be provided. As the middle class disappears more and more people’s energy needs can be simply ignored to make it even less costly. Favelas and barrios are wonderful institutions for saving energy resources.


56 posted on 02/07/2016 12:43:48 PM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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Problem is despite 3000 miles across the country it is still dark for several hours across the whole country.
Solar panels can’t work all the time no matter how high the voltage or heavy the conductors.


59 posted on 02/07/2016 12:52:22 PM PST by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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There are a number of interstate windline projects on the books but it is hard to get built becausae the state agencies have more authority over transmission lines than FERC.

Clean Lines Energy Partners has 4 windlines planed and Tres Amigas has two. There is another from Wyoming to the west coast.

Boone Pickens had it right in 2006 when he said the govt needs to get out of the way and let the private sector build these transmission lines.

60 posted on 02/07/2016 1:53:08 PM PST by Ben Ficklin
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Yes, it might be best if we developed room-temperature superconducting wire first.


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62 posted on 02/07/2016 4:06:30 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Terrorism, the thing that shall not be named by the MSM)
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Yep, just have 32x the generating capacity in renewables and a supergrid, and it will work./sarcasm

I got another idea, just kill off everyone on the planet, its cheaper!


63 posted on 02/07/2016 4:11:45 PM PST by dila813
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