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 Fri Feb 23, 2007 22:22 pm What do you think of wind power? |
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Hi Torsten,
I don't mind those wind turbines at all, and I like the idea of wind power as an alternative energy source. It's much safer than nuclear power after all.
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| Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:27 am What do you think of wind power? |
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It's said to be an extremely inefficient source of energy and use of land.
There have supposedly been power-generating windmill fields put out at sea that do a passable job. One was proposed for an area off Massachusetts, but the Kennedy family stopped it, because it was too near their favorite boating area. |
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| Sun Feb 25, 2007 12:52 pm What do you think of wind power? |
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I've seen enormous green fields filled up with those turbines in Germany and, though utilizing wind energy is a good idea, I believe the land could have been used more efficiently...
The real breakthrough in this area should occur when humans manage to construct a turbine able to survive in Florida that would utilize and weaken all those tornadoes 
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| Mon Feb 26, 2007 23:09 pm What do you think of wind power? |
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Hi, Torsten;
I believe my reaction the first time I saw them was "Wow!" Interestingly, it was a small wind farm (of five or six towers) next to a pair of nuclear reactors, about two hours' drive from here. We're still just in the developmental stages of establishing wind farms here, and I can imagine that as they become more common, many people will object to the way they break up the landscape. My own feeling is that I would much rather see this sign of progress in the direction of renewable (albeit inconsistent) energy, than have to contend with the consequences of our current trend in poisoning our atmosphere, as described in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth".
Anyone else?
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| Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:15 am What do you think of wind power? |
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| Julian wrote: | My own feeling is that I would much rather see this sign of progress in the direction of renewable (albeit inconsistent) energy, than have to contend with the consequences of our current trend in poisoning our atmosphere, as described in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth".
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Be careful how much you believe of anything Al Gore says. He's one of the most interesting liars among American politicians, not just because he lies a lot, but because he tells stupid lies that he can be caught in and ridiculed for the very next day. For example, he said he was on the team that invented the Internet, even though the Internet was invented when he was only 14. He also told union workers that his mother used to sing him to sleep with the song of the Ladies Garment Workers' Union. The only problem was that he was 27 years old when the song was written, so his mom was singing him lullabies very late in life! He has even weirder lies than that.
Before you believe the global warming stuff, keep in mind that, regardless of what Al Gore says, scientists don't know if we really are warming up the world with our gas emissions. You might try reading other opinions, such as those in books like Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years by Dennis T. Avery and S. Fred Singer, or The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism) by Christopher C. Horner. It never hurts to get other points of view, especially when the media are promoting some theory as unquestionable gospel truth.
And don't forget, as I mentioned in some other thread, in the 1970s they were predicting catastrophe from global cooling, which they said was being caused by the same things they now say cause global warming. They also predicted there would be no petroleum in the world by 1980. It's a type of apocalyptic religion, more than science.
Personally, I'm not crazy about land being wasted for inefficient wind farms (although there's been some success at using huge wind farms out at sea). What I do like, though, is that solar energy has developed to the point where my state has installed solar panels every few miles that supplement the electricity used for lighting the highways. |
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| Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:54 am What do you think of wind power? |
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Hi,
It also makes me imagine those windmills of 'the good old Europe' though I should suppose the state-of-the-art rotor blades must be very different from the good old ones. But I'd just love their visage all the same, no matter they are in Don Quixote's or in the 21st century: it's European..., to me.
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| Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:08 am What do you think of wind power? |
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| aereal wrote: | | The real breakthrough in this area should occur when humans manage to construct a turbine able to survive in Florida that would utilize and weaken all those tornadoes |
That idea is as great as to generate electricity from lightning.
I oppose a massive use of power-generating windmills before some real scientists experiment and demonstrate a positive result that such a theme won’t do harm to the global climate.
Suppose that the whole wind energy on earth is constant, we transform part of it into electricity energy now, and then the total amount of wind energy decreases.
If we start to perform a massive production, invest a lot of money to build more and more wind turbines, finally allocate many huge barren lands to satisfy such a purpose, then the total amount of wind energy will decrease sharply. Once that amount diminishes to a threshold, even less than 1 percent of the whole, some results will occur. But what are those results indeed? What do those results effect our planet?
One of results is that climate will change. As we know, wind is the only method that transports water (in form of steam) from ocean to earth, in other words, the process of water transportation produces wind. If we weaken this process by absorbing wind energy through turbines, then the rainfall in mainland decreases. Or if we just break the balance of wind in various regions, some unpredictable results will happen. In contrast, storms and hurricanes may be reduced, and some bad climate is improved. |
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