Posted on 08/13/2011 10:01:29 AM PDT by neverdem
Put a wind turbine in front of Barry’s teleprompter.
There’s always wind there.
If the wind don’t blow,
The turbine don’t go.
Perhaps tidal turbines would be better. The tide works twice a day every day.
The scale on the two lines differs by over an order of magnitude. Although it appears at first glance that there were short times where wind generation exceeded total demand, by showing the blue line above the green line, in reality, wind generation never rarely met even 10% of total demand.
Sheesh, Bryce, you are presenting facts here. Who cares about facts? Truth is what we say it is. Wind is “green” and will save us all from demon fossil fuels.
Do you mean to tell me that those Smelly Hippie Environmentalists were wrong again? Gasp!
Most Texans know...when it’s 110 degrees, there’s very little breeze.
Good observation.
Tax the heck out of technologies that compete with your little boondoggle and use what remains of the tax money, after you have hired a bunch more of bureaucrats with it, to subsidize your boondoggle.
Nudge... nudge...
I'll grant you it's poorly designed.
LOL!
I’ll take 50 of them.
I figure if I strap them all over my Harley, I’ll never have to buy gas again.
[it would definitely be easier than raising mainsails and fiddling with all that rigging while under way]
They just planted a wind farm in western MD.
So far, our light bills haven’t decreased but our bird and bat population has.
Doesn’t seem very “green” or “environmentally friendly” to me.
Looks to be 180 degrees out of phase. Figures.
“Perhaps they could set blowers in front of the turbines to keep them going” - Imaginary quote from Øbumbler
I have a simple solution for Texas, with known technology, that could turn most of the State green and keep it green even if it never rained again. And it’s all based on just one thing. The Gulf Coast.
The Gulf Coast has a vast amount of water, albeit salt water. But underneath the Gulf Coast is an enormous amount of natural gas.
Put those two things together and you have desalinization. Fresh water in vast amounts.
So build natural gas powered desalinization plants and pipelines to ship the water inland. Such plants can run year around, and during wetter seasons can fill reservoirs. And when those reservoirs are filled, use electricity generated from natural gas to pipe the water to ever deeper inland reservoirs.
Certainly it will be expensive, but it will turn big sections of desert Texas green with farmland and water using industry.
Al Gore says that global warming is slowing down the moon so much that eventually we'll only have one a day and then later, it will stop altogether. Al wouldn't lie to us would he?
They claim that electric cars don't cost anything to operate.
The inadquacy of wind power would have been even more obvious if the scale were the same for both lines. Or at least if there were an obvious break and it didn’t appear that the lines overlapped when they clearly don’t come close.
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