The 2 round tubes are called nacelles ;)
Posted on 07/06/2008 2:30:19 PM PDT by Josh Painter
Everyone is an expert, every expert has a different fix.
I disagree...wind is not a small part, but a huge part. Last week I flew over the north sea and saw about 100 oil tankers parked next to about 200 windmills.... Quite a dichotomy, but let me assure you, us in the oil indsustry are counting on wind power to take up the slack. Although we have supplies for a while, we have got to replace the oil production. In Israeli terms, Kol ha Kavod!
Mikey, forgive my ignorance, but what is a Nacelle?
The 2 round tubes are called nacelles ;)
Th nacelle is housing that surrounds the turbine and gearbox. It serves as platform for all the FAA requirements, as well as the thermocouples, anemometers, and wind direction.
Two months ago the U.S Department of Energy (DOE) released a report that examines the technical feasibility of harnessing wind power to provide up to 20 percent of the nation’s total electricity needs by 2030. Below are a couple of graphs from a related document. It appears to me that 10 years to get oil is a whole lot sooner than any viable alternate energy plans.
We're real good at poking holes in the Earth and extracting oil. We've been doing it for 150 years, we know how to use oil, we know it works. We haven't been doing alternate energy very long, we don't know yet how to make it work or even if it will work in the long run. (Except nuclear)
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