[discostu]

Way to play with the numbers, Altamont has SEVEN thousand turbines and doesn't even produce 1 GW. Maybe you need to deal with NOW instead of imaginary projections.

[newgeezer]

Way to play with the numbers, Altamont has SEVEN thousand turbines and doesn't even produce 1 GW. Maybe you need to deal with NOW instead of imaginary projections.

You're the one playing with numbers. You're the one who keeps on bringing up Altamont Pass, as if it's the end-all measure of wind power's viability. What is your point? Is it that a 1970s nuke plant is more efficient than a 1980s wind plant? Fine. I'll concede that. Happy now?

Maybe you need to deal with NOW instead of imaginary projections.

Altamont Pass is not "NOW." For someone who claims to have done so much "research," you're awfully reluctant to let go of those Altamont Pass turbines when trying to make your points.

As biblewonk said, maybe you need to pull your head out of your 1980's data and realize that windpower is here now, especially if you're going to presume to tell the rest of us to "deal with NOW."

[biblewonk]

Way to play with the numbers, Altamont has SEVEN thousand turbines and doesn't even produce 1 GW. Maybe you need to deal with NOW instead of imaginary projections.

It's funny to hear Rush describe those toys as huge. They are tiny. In 2002 the average windmill size installed in germany was 1.5 mw. At altamont it is less than 100kw. Altamont needs to be "repowered" but there are too many political issues preventing that. Meanwhile the new windfarms in Texas are composed of actual modern windmills. I realize you simply don't like them because you've been given your marching orders. The ironic thing is that you don't really understand your arguments at all yet use the phrase "canned answers".

So how do you feel about the Lord?