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To: AdamSelene235

http://www.capewind.org/article24.htm

Cape Wind is to be 130 windmills, generating 400 MW of power, and the turbines are spaced 900 yards apart (a staggered linear array 40 miles long I think). Scale this up by three to get 1000 MW, roughly.

My proposal would be to complicate things further by using the intermittent, unreliable wind to generate H2 as a form of energy storage, rather than putting the power online, except perhaps for low load periods.

Ten percent of grid power? Never, as a continuous supply. As a peak % for a time, we may get to 10%. Wind is better off grid.

As stored power, in H2 or some other storage medium, wind can add to the total available, maybe 5%, I don’t have everything I need to model it.


77 posted on 02/28/2008 10:29:49 AM PST by DBrow
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To: DBrow
Cape Wind is to be 130 windmills, generating 400 MW of power,

Another fraudulent lie.

Try 170 MW of expected *average* power not the peak number.

What an incredible waste of resources for an unreliable power supply.

79 posted on 02/28/2008 11:32:10 AM PST by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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