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The Spectacle Blog
At the Alabama Policy Institute (a tremendous organization), Cameron Smith today has a superb column on national energy policy, with great statistics about how many usable energy sources the United States still retains, and about the comparative efficiencies of those sources. He is particularly brutal about the lack of practicality of large-scale wind farms:
These less traditional energy sources also have their own efficiency challenges. According to the Wind Capital Group, “[o]n open, flat terrain, a utility-scale wind farm will require about 100 acres per MW of installed capacity.” By contrast, even a large nuclear generator takes up less than one acre per MW. To replace the coal-generated electric capacity in the United States with wind would require almost 46 million acres, slightly less than the combined size of the entire states of Alabama and West Virginia.
Read the whole thing. Good stuff.
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Occam's Tool| 3.24.11 @ 11:31PM
Drill, Baby, Drill.
Marc Jeric| 3.25.11 @ 2:33AM
Not to mention the fact that those wind turbines are true cuisinarts for birds. After 2 years of operation the efficiency of the 200 wind turbines placed on the hights of the Sierras in California strangely fell off precipitously. The maintenance crews went up to see the problem; they discovered the turbine blades covered with blood and guts and feathers of the birds killed by the thousands. Also, around each turbines there were several feet deep piles of dead birds - among them rare bald eagles and albatrosses. Of course, the California eco-nazis covered up those findings. Also in California they constructed several geothermal plants in the southern desert. Among the remnants of the outflow were huge amounts of arsenic, as well as substantial quantities of radioactive Strontium and Cesium. They "solved" that little problem by burying those effluents in the desert.
TennesseeVolunteer| 3.25.11 @ 7:45AM
God gave us oil, coal for a reason.
Did our energy problems multiply with the advent of Environmentalism, the Department of Energy and global warming?
Why am I being held hostage by a bunch of tree huggers who don't even have real jobs?
They are not farmers or fishermen and many of them don't even own land!
wodiej| 3.25.11 @ 8:23AM
Most people know we have plenty of our own energy. What people don't seem to understand is this energy is not limitless. We are going to have to curb our salacious, over gratifying appetite for driving the biggest vehicles we can find, living in the largest house we can find (even if we can't afford it) etc. It's obvious by the obesity rate in this country (more than half of all Americans are too fat), that we need to walk and ride bikes more instead of driving around gas guzzling SUV's.
Oldefarte| 3.25.11 @ 1:11PM
My limited knowledge concerning wind energy tells me that these farms would only be productive on a coastal area [ie California, Massachusetts, Florida, etc] where there is ample wind generated from oceans; and that the interiors of the nation [ie Oklahoma, Kansas, etc] would not be so wind to energy productive. Again, this administration is effectively/economically destroying this country by its paddycakes with the environmentalists over oil production, especially from the loss of well-paying oil industry jobs [the southern half of Louisiana is almost entirely dependent upon these oil jobs] from its governmental oil drilling moratorium and thereafter its refusal to issue drilling permits. Try putting a windmill atop your motorized vehicle and see how far it propells you!!!!!!!!!