Posted on 11/10/2007 2:57:29 AM PST by alnitak
Prior "prediction" thread here. Looks like they will blow right past that :-) The previous annual installation record was 3240MW for Germany in 2002.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832472/posts
ping!
This reads like a sales pitch for American Wind.
Perhaps the solution to our energy probelms is a wind sox on every car. /s
Wind will not solve all our problems, but it is a part of the solution. And we need more of them as soon as possible.
Propellors for all illegal imigrants running across the border. But than there is a problem with extension cords.
Energy independence will ease the effects of globalization because the future energy demands of countries like India and China, as their middle class grows, are going to be tremendous. Even if Middle East supplies remain stable - a huge if - that increased demand will drive prices up dramatically, which will hurt our economy by making everything more expensive here. But if we are energy independent, we will be able not just to take care of our own needs and protect our economy, we will also create jobs and grow our economy by developing technologies that we can sell to the rest of the world to meet their needs. Mike Huckabee.
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=21 I am not a firm MH supporter but... (read tag line)
I have nothing against wind power. I oppose subsidizing it with tax dollars, whether they be federal, state or local.
Here in Pennsylvania, some wind farms were opposed because the locals did not like their look on the top of mountains. Unbelievable.
cars will run off pinwheel power
if you can get pushed fast enough to start it
“Here in Pennsylvania, some wind farms were opposed because the locals did not like their look on the top of mountains. Unbelievable.”
Its not unbelievable, energy producing windmill farms are ugly. Just ask Ted Kennedy.
We have them here in WV and they are awesome!
My wife and I were up in Tucker county and took a little video of them.
Whoooosh!
Over in Maryland, in Garrett county where all the liberal enviro-whackos came up to retire from
the cesspools they created in lower Maryland, they are throwing fits.
They dont want coal. Global warming, air pollution, blah, blah, blah...
But they also don't want wind farms because it assaults their "sensibilities".
Plus the blades whack the less intelligent birds that fly into their path.
You'd think the atheistic darwinists would appreciate cleansing the gene pool of dumb birds.
We might wind up with birds who avoid airplane engines, though this theory hasn't worked for deer.
Exactly.
I’d rather subsidize US energy advancement than send billions every day overseas to the middle east and Venezuala. Neither one is very favorable, though but I’d still prefer the first choice.
Not mentioned in the article, how much of the total installed is actually working at any given moment and how much is down for maintenance.
Twice this year I've flown airplanes from Chattanooga to New Mexico and to SW Colorado. Along the way I flew over literally hundreds of wind mills, both operating and under construction, in west Texas and the Oklahoma panhandle. Somebody ought to think about installing a few outside the door of the US Capital building in DC. There's plenty of wind coming out of there......
Deer get sucked up in airplane engines??!
Who knew?!
;o)
It can happen around late December every year.
American Wind Installs 2,300 MW so far this year, 4000MW expected by year end...
how many are to be erected in front of the kennedy compound at hyannisport????
LOL!! (Took me a bit to figure that one out - where’s my coffee??!)
Amazingly, yes they do!
When the jets fly low through the mountains up here,
apparently the deer are mesmerized by the sound, and leap high into the air.
They usually don't make it into the engines, but they sure give it a try.
They have much more success making it into the engines of cars, via the radiators.
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