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To: DungeonMaster

Not really, wind generation fluctuates with the weather, some years are going to be windier than others. And of course too much wind is just as bad for windmills as too little, as each one is speced for a certain range of wind speed. When the wind goes out of phase with your whole farm, like say during bad storms, the farm is doing nothing. Yes eventually the wind will get back in phase with at least part of your wind farm, but that’s cold comfort when your whole city is using battery backup.

Our energy need CANNOT be supplied by wind. Like I’ve told you already, there’s big chunk of this country that DO NOT get windmill usable wind on any consistent level. You’ll never be able to supply Southern Arizona on wind power, we don’t get the wind. Just plain can’t happen.

Ignorant hippies don’t like nukes, but eventually they’ll all die. People that pay attention know wind power is at best a toy, and there’s getting to be more of us every day. Basically right now the only people that actually like wind power are the same smelly hippies that don’t like nukes.


69 posted on 12/09/2009 7:59:34 AM PST by discostu (The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression)
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To: discostu
Our energy need CANNOT be supplied by wind. Like I’ve told you already, there’s big chunk of this country that DO NOT get windmill usable wind on any consistent level. You’ll never be able to supply Southern Arizona on wind power, we don’t get the wind. Just plain can’t happen.

Why does it have to be all or nothing and nothing in between is even considered? Nukes can't supply all of our needs either, they have their own limitations.

73 posted on 12/09/2009 8:29:10 AM PST by DungeonMaster (camel, eye of a needle; rich man, heaven)
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