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Forty years ago I was introduced to a man who claimed he wrote “Blowin in the Wind” and that Bob Dylan had stolen the lyrics and melody from him. He was a street folksinger in NYC, too.
He had the chorus as “The answer my friend is not blowing in the wind, the answer is in the hearts of men.”
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"The federal government has to subsidize windmill production through production tax credits of about 1.8¢ per kilowatt. Wind Farms also receive an accelerated depreciation. Wind farms are also land intensive. They produce a fraction of the energy of a traditional power plant but they require 100 times the acreage.
From the National Center for Policy Analysis: to produce a 1000 megawatt power plant a wind farm would require 192,000 acres or 300 square miles. A nuclear plant would need about 1700 acres (or 2.65 mi2), and about 3 mi2 for a coal fired power plant. The transmission lines for the wind turbines would be massive, 12,000 miles just for the array."
ping for later
Since the required energy would be extracted from the force of the wind, there would be less wind energy remaining after passing the wind farm.
Therefore we could expect a drastic change in local weather due to the reduced wind energy downstream of the farms. The results could be devastating and quite possibly a greater threat to mankind that that imagined for global warming due to co2 emissions.
since the required energy would be extracted come from the force of the wind, there would be less wind energy remaining after passing the wind farm.
Therefore we could expect a drastic change in local weather due to the reduced wind energy downstream of the farms. The results could be devastating and quite possibly a greater threat to mankind that that imagined for global warming due to co2 emissions.
Well, it’s not that erratic. During our recent once in a century heat wave when air conditioner driven load was at a maximum at 3-4PM, wind farm output was predictably zero, and peaked at 2-3AM.
In fact of the primary energy sources, wind power is the most expensive:
Wind = 21.97 cents per kwh
Gas and oil = 12.28 cents per kwh
Nuclear = 11.06 cents per kwh
Hydro = 7.60 cents per kwh
Believing in wind is a fool’s errand. The reasons are simple. Wind is costly, inefficient and erratic.
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I’m not sure it can be said any more succinctly than this.
Wind power is NOT 21 cents per kwhr.
