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To: Smokin' Joe

Denmark is larger than Maryland but smaller than West Virginia and not anywhere near the size of North Dakota.


5 posted on 03/12/2016 11:47:01 AM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: reg45
My point, precisely. Power is lost in transmission.

Storing enough renewable energy to heat homes across the US northern tier isn't likely to happen any time soon, and not without considerable investment, then.

I'm at roughly 48 degrees N latitude, and solar cells do not get the incident angle needed to generate efficiently most of the year. Days are considerably shorter in winter than midsummer, too.

Wind is often too strong for windmills.

Temperatures in winter are commonly down to -30, and I have seen -60, not counting wind chill.

Renewables won't supply the needs for one state, much less the country, here in the US, and I'm not counting transportation. We are far more spread out than even the most sparsely populated European country, and even Agenda 21 won't change that.

9 posted on 03/12/2016 12:11:16 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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