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To: thackney
OK; is wind power worth it or not?
3 posted on 03/28/2014 1:29:20 PM PDT by henkster (I don't like bossy women telling me what words I can't use.)
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To: henkster

There are places where it may make sense, and places where it doesn’t. It’s just not viable for anything other than a supplemental source of power on a large scale.


6 posted on 03/28/2014 1:34:32 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: henkster

No, it’s not. It is expensive beyond anything else, unreliable (the wind doesn’t always blow), and fully dependent on Government subsidies to make it even barely viable. Not to mention its deleterious effects on wildlife and plain ruination of many beautiful areas now blighted by eyesores.

Wind Power is a worthless waste. A green scam like all the rest.


10 posted on 03/28/2014 1:42:19 PM PDT by BrewingFrog (I brew, therefore I am!)
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To: henkster

Of course it’s worth it, but the thing is, you have to get government out of the electric generation business and then start demanding rate cuts after a specific amount of time since government and the utilities don’t make or generate the wind.


13 posted on 03/28/2014 1:47:47 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: henkster
OK; is wind power worth it or not?

No! Without taxpayer subsidies these endeavors would never see the light of day.

Fossil fuels are much more efficient at delivering our needed energy needs. We have many 100s of years of easily accessible energy.

If wind power and solar power had to succeed strictly in the marketplace then 99.9% of all the evil Green garbage would disappear.

15 posted on 03/28/2014 1:50:04 PM PDT by sand88 (We can never legislate our way back to Liberty)
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To: henkster

Yes it’s definitely worth it.


17 posted on 03/28/2014 1:51:36 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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To: henkster

The only way I can see the wind thing working is if there were some way to capture the energy NOT being used, and store it until its needed.

But they dont make batteries that big, do they?


18 posted on 03/28/2014 1:54:06 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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