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Look out! PEAK WIND is COMING, warns top Harvard physicist
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Posted on 02/27/2013 11:22:49 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle; Fred Nerks; Carry_Okie; blam; Lorianne; Twotone; bigbob; NormsRevenge; ...
Well we still have solar power and biomass...and algae.
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posted on
02/27/2013 11:25:50 AM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Is shoveling up the dead birds a green job?
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posted on
02/27/2013 11:26:42 AM PST
by
Jim Noble
(When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
To: Jim Noble
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posted on
02/27/2013 11:28:31 AM PST
by
jiggyboy
(Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Given that wind is only result of differences in pressures at different locations, how does any additional drag on wind decrease future wind sources? That is not making in decrease in the source for wind.
Wind has plenty of problems with subsidies/mandates. But I find little support for claim we will run out of it.
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posted on
02/27/2013 11:29:51 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Worldwide center for peak wind. Put a wind farm here and our troubles are over.
To: Jim Noble
Is shoveling up the dead birds a green job?
With these windmills you make sure they sink into the water. You could generate from the heat gradient and have a more steady source of power. Next they will want fat people to ride exercise bikes to generate power like in Glenn Beck’s “Agenda 21”
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posted on
02/27/2013 11:32:34 AM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The solution is obvious. All wind turbines must be clustered within a 1/2 mile radius around Capitol Hill.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Plus, isn’t there some concern that the whole continent will take flight with so many propellers going?
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Peak oil; peak gas; peak coal; and now, peak wind.
One thing that there will always be an oversupply of, is the hot air from the global warming scientists and liberals. So, why not harness that? Gore alone could power a whole town.
Crap is known to be an energy source, so, why not go to Washington and harness all of the crap that comes out of there?
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posted on
02/27/2013 11:35:17 AM PST
by
adorno
(Y)
To: Colonel Kangaroo
That sounds like a great idea. Can these wind turbines handle the speed (rpm’s) that would be created by those ill winds?
To: Jim Noble
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posted on
02/27/2013 11:38:50 AM PST
by
TigersEye
(The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wind power blows.
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posted on
02/27/2013 11:42:11 AM PST
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Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to be "protected" by government.)
To: All
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posted on
02/27/2013 11:42:16 AM PST
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Ernest_at_the_Beach
((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
To: Portcall24
That is a concern although a sufficient number on Guam might prevent a capsize.
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02/27/2013 11:51:52 AM PST
by
JPG
(Stay strong.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Something I stumbled across that's very interesting. It says what we all know to be true about wind not being feasible and suggests what I have suspected about possible damage done by thousands of windmills.
Study: Wind power's role overestimated
"People have often thought there's no upper bound for wind power -- that it's one of the most scalable power sources," Harvard University applied physicist David Keith says.
The thought is based on the belief gusts and breezes aren't likely to "run out" on a global scale in the way oil wells might run dry, he said in a Harvard release Monday.
But an atmospheric modeling study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, suggests a law of diminishing returns when it comes to the largest of wind farms.
Every wind turbine creates a downwind "shadow" in which the air has been slowed by drag on the turbine's blades, so turbines have to be spaced far enough apart to reduce the effect of these wind shadows.
But as wind farms grow larger, Keith said, they start to interact and regional-scale wind patterns matter more.
Its basic high school physics children. I'm a highschool dropout and even I know that when you convert kinetic wind energy into electricity, you have lost that kinetic wind energy.
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posted on
02/27/2013 11:54:16 AM PST
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cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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02/27/2013 12:05:39 PM PST
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onyx
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To: thackney
Well, there is conservation of energy to be reckoned with, no matter what the source of the wind is. You are taking energy out of a system, so if the system is a closed one, the total energy is decreasing, and if it is not a closed one, then you still need to be careful that you are not drawing off energy faster than it can be replaced from outside the system.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Taking all that power out of the wind may affect the climate! Conservation of energy presumably still applies. Is a slow-wind weather our future?
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Predicted many centuries ago:
Revelation 7:1
“And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.”
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posted on
02/27/2013 12:20:33 PM PST
by
unlearner
(You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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