The weird thing to me is that this was published by Harvard. I thought
academia was supposed to be liberal tree huggers.
The other thing I find odd is they seem to be suggesting wind power as the only
source. Wind is probably the worst possible choice for single source power. In
conjunction with solar its slightly better and with hydro in the mix it finally
becomes reasonable.
In the real world that well all live in wind power is one part of a
mixed-source energy world. A world that will probably include things like coal,
natural gas, oil and nuclear along with wind, hydro and solar...
-Curt
On Friday, October 5, 2018, 12:20:13 PM EDT, Meade Dillon via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Yep, physics has won again. Simple little reality check like "how many
wind turbines do we need to meet present demand and how much land is that"
pretty clearly demonstrates why wind is not the solution now and never will
be the solution. Cut off the flow of tax dollars here and also to solar
(same problem - not enough land area), focus on possible solutions
(nuclear) that are really worth spending my hard won tax money on.
-------------
Max
Charleston SC
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 12:12 PM G Mann via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
> Well.... that was interesting. So, the great wind power boondoggle has
> effectively blown smoke up our collective asses... while consuming huge
> volumes of government grant money....
>
> Who would have thought? So, does this mean my Chevy Volt will have to stay
> parked for another decade?
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 4:24 AM Meade Dillon via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> > " To estimate the impacts of wind power, Keith and Miller established a
> > baseline for the 2012‒2014 U.S. climate using a standard
> > weather-forecasting model. Then, they covered one-third of the
> continental
> > U.S. with enough wind turbines to meet present-day U.S. electricity
> > demand."
> >
> > One-third of the U.S., covered with wind farms!!! Dream or nightmare?
> >
> >
> >
> https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/10/large-scale-wind-power-has-its-down-side/
> >
> >
> >
> > -------------
> > Max
> > Charleston SC
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