Wind's Chill Factor

Investors.com ^ | January 26, 2010 | INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY Staff

[Kaslin]

Energy: The government says wind power could supply the eastern half of the U.S. with a fifth of its electricity by 2024. Just don't try building wind farms where someone might see them.

A claim is contained in a new study released by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and technically it might be true. But we've heard these overblown predictions before, and experience around the world with heavily subsidized alternative energy has not worked out well.

The area in question, called the Eastern Interconnection, is a grid extending roughly from the western borders of the Plains states through to the Atlantic Coast, excluding most of Texas. It includes Nantucket, where supporters of the Cape Wind project have been tilting at windmills for years.

The Cape Wind project proposes erecting 130 wind turbines that would generate electricity equivalent to about 75% of Cape Cod's energy needs.

The best site is Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound. Unfortunately, this body of water sits between the Kerry home on Nantucket Island and the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port on the Cape and might spoil the view.

Considering the resistance this one project has had, one wonders how you build the wind farms and the 22,697 miles of EHV (electric high voltage) transmission lines to service the Eastern Interconnection. The time frame is short: 14 years. The cost is exorbitant: $93 billion just for the transmission lines. And the question is a big one: Where do you put them for proper power reach?

[SunkenCiv]

“Not in my neighborhood sez the Kennedy family” ping.

[Flycatcher]

I want one of those new micro nuke plants hidden behind some shrubs.

Yet again, I want three! lol

[American Constitutionalist]

" Plus they are proven to kill birds and bats who happen to collide with the blades. Libtards just don’t see the double standard that their ideology pushes. I think it is “quaint” that the progressives want wind turbines but nuclear is taboo."

It's not that they don't see, or blind to it, even though they see, yet, they are still blind to the truth.... they are stiffed necked and refuse to see the truth.
To them, collateral damage is acceptable, as long as they are the ones who are doing it, and as long as they have the rod of iron ruling over others.
Don't do as I do, do as I say for you to do...

[American Constitutionalist]

For the modern day term ( 40 acres and a mule ) 3 new nuclear power plants for each state in 10 years !!

[American Constitutionalist]

What are they going to do when there is a wind drought ?

Liberals love being in the ( Dark ) ness.

[American Constitutionalist]

" I want one of those new micro nuke plants hidden behind some shrubs.

Yet again, I want three! lol "

After all ? it is " GREEN ( glowing in the dark green ) POWER " .....
You can even sit out at night with your lawn chairs and watch them glow in the dark .