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Life in fossil-fuel-free utopia
townhall.com ^ | 8/11/2017 | Paul Driessen

Posted on 08/12/2017 6:56:44 AM PDT by rktman

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To: maddog55

Don’t know the purpose of your posting of the towers but those are hyperbolic cooling towers which emit nothing but water vapor and air. The towers are empty except for the bottom 10 feet of fill. The rest creates a natural draft to move the air through the media in the bottom. They consume zero energy.


21 posted on 08/12/2017 8:00:33 AM PDT by JeanLM (Obama proves melanin is just enough to win elections)
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To: DuncanWaring

“I double-checked the math myself, and got an answer I don’t trust, but it may be correct if all 830 million wind turbines run at full power non-stop.”

Please check my math!

I verified that his number (25 billion mwhs) would be for a year. That is 25x10^9 mwhs.


One turbine at ‘max’ for a year:

3 x 24 x 365 = 13,000 mwhs.

At 20% efficiency = 2,600 mwhs.

For 830x10^6 turbines:

2.6x10^3 x 830x10^6 = 2,158 x 10^9 = 21 x 10^11 mwhs.



22 posted on 08/12/2017 8:16:35 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: rktman

and all that destruction and inconvenience and garbage just to go from 0.00136% CO2 in atmosphere (due directly to man) to oh i dunno- 0.00135%

Gee- what a whopping change that will bring forth on planet erff

Folks, there is NO WAY 0.00136% of the atmosphere is controlling our climate— no way no how- impossible-


23 posted on 08/12/2017 8:55:14 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: TexasGator; rktman; Gay State Conservative; Celerity; umgud; rigelkentaurus; Starboard; pgkdan; ...

“I double-checked the math. I think they are way off.”

You’re absolutely right, Gator.

He’s off by a factor of at least 200.

830 million 3mw turbines have a capacity of about 22000 billion mwh per year. (I’m assuming his usage are for a year).

They would have to have a generation rate of only about 0.1% to generate 25 billion mwh.

Inefficient as they are, due to the wind not blowing all the time, I’m sure they could muster 20% generation rate, which would mean he’s off by a factor of 200 minimum.

So instead of 14 million square miles, it would only require 70 thousand square miles, still a lot, but not ridiculous like his number.

It is disappointing that “our” side is just as guilty of spouting nonsense at times as the other side. So eager to defend what are some of our entranched but not very tenable positions that we often make fools of ourselves, as in this case.

Personally I’m agnostic when it comes to energy - whatever works is fine with me, and having multiple sources I think is good.


24 posted on 08/12/2017 9:16:26 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

“It is disappointing that “our” side is just as guilty of spouting nonsense at times as the other side. “

Yes. He should have stated that his consumption number was for a year and provided assumptions.

Goes without saying he should have double-checked his math.


25 posted on 08/12/2017 9:20:56 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Bob434

And....CO2 is PLANT FOOD! SMH at the Libs!!


26 posted on 08/12/2017 9:24:56 AM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: old gringo

Well, my family went to Guam when I was a mere infant in 1947 and the 4 of us didn’t tip the island over. We also(my folks) didn’t know there were still some Japs in the higher elevations. Now we have kim jong dung threatening to tip Guam over by using tidal waves. Who knew?


27 posted on 08/12/2017 9:25:48 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: TexasGator

Great idea!~ For food we can eat the birds killed by the windmills as long as they last.

They forgot to mention that it takes more energy to produce a windmill than it will return in it’s lifetime.


28 posted on 08/12/2017 9:27:06 AM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: oldasrocks

“They forgot to mention that it takes more energy to produce a windmill than it will return in it’s lifetime.”

Do you have a link to support your ‘fact’?


29 posted on 08/12/2017 9:55:07 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: rktman

Sorry, . . . We all live in Bed Rock, We haven’t got an Orbital City yet, to move to.


30 posted on 08/12/2017 10:31:59 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.king seal.)
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To: SandRat

We’re kinda busy over here in Fossilvania. ;-)


31 posted on 08/12/2017 10:35:16 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

HRHRHRH I take you liked the use of a Flintstone and Jetson name. HEHEHEHEH


32 posted on 08/12/2017 10:38:40 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.king seal.)
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To: SandRat

LOL! WILLLMAAAAAA. JAANNE!


33 posted on 08/12/2017 10:54:20 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

“Seems to me that life in fossil-fuel free utopia might closely resemble life in 13th Century Europe utopia....back during the golden ages of human civilization. “

They didn’t worry about ‘racism’ then. When people invaded their territory they killed them.


34 posted on 08/12/2017 11:57:48 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: Celerity
...We are at the top of the food chain despite having no claws, teeth, or even being particularly strong....

Brains & gunpowder.

35 posted on 08/12/2017 12:39:42 PM PDT by ex91B10
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To: Keyhopper

during ww2 you could not get anything with petrolum in it not even fly spray.


36 posted on 08/12/2017 1:03:00 PM PDT by old gringo (a wise monkey never monkeys with another monkeys monkey.)
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To: old gringo

Slightly before my time, however, my folks told me of the rationing during the war. Mom grew up on a farm, so it wasn’t so bad as they didn’t have anything to begin with.


37 posted on 08/12/2017 5:07:09 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: rktman

” and huge swaths of our remaining forest and grassland habitats would disappear”

That would have to happen to make up for all the wasted cropland taken up by wind and solar farms


38 posted on 08/12/2017 10:23:25 PM PDT by Figment
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To: TexasGator

One turbine running at 100% for the full year would produce 3 x 24 x 7 MWH per year: 26280 MWH.

Divide that into 25 billion MWH: 951000 wind turbines running full-time full power.

Divide that 951000 by whatever efficiency you want to get the number of turbines necessary to produce the 25 billion MWH at that efficiency.


39 posted on 08/13/2017 5:04:44 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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