Any avian or raptor mortality?
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 1:28 PM, G Mann <g2ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wind power, developed on a commercial scale, has serious economic flaws. > While much political and environmental noise is made about how clean it is > and how it will "save the environment/world", if you truly put the > accountant pencil to paper, the cost to purchase, build, install, connect > versus the return on investment from actual power generated and sold does > not pay out. > > To date, from the information I have, no wind power farm has produced > enough electricity sold to pay for it's install and upkeep costs much less > produce a profit without constant influx of federal support grants and > money. When the federal money runs out, the wind farm is left "breathless" > to continue on a practical economic scale. > > Bottom line always is, the wind blows when it blows while people want their > electricity constant and there is no way yet devised to store huge amounts > of generated electricity for later use. Major flaw is all wind farm designs > and wind farm tech support. > > If however, we could keep congress in session and all politicians talking, > we would have an endless source of hot air that could be harnessed.... that > might be a viable use of an otherwise worthless expense. > > I've been following wind power rather closely since the 1973 Great Oil > Embargo and formation of OPEC. One of the first large scale wind farms is > the one at Banning, CA. Some of the original wind generators are still > there, and it's my information that those, since 1974 install still have > not paid for themselves in actual KW produced and sold. > > I have two wind towers at my ranch, tied into the solar/battery bank as > supplemental power to pick up a few watts of energy when the wind blows. > Each tower cost about $5K all in and other than I can claim how "green" I > am for having them, they have not produced enough to warrant their install > in real return on investment. > > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> wrote: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Indiana > > > > Dan > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner > has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
