On 07/01/07, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can see them all over the American west as well. They're somewhat > of a solution to energy problems, but not very efficient. > Interestingly enough, a lot of east-coast democrat congressmen and > women were high on these at one time. And then someone proposed > building some within viewing distance of the Kennedy compound on > Martha's Vineyard. Now wind-powered generators are suddenly taboo > among the liberal leadership. Go figure.
They are actually quite effiecient these days both in a conversions sense and in the fact that in relatively remote outposts transmission losses are minimised due to the proximity of the generators to the users. As such they are becoming far more widely embraced in Australia. Current technology is providing upwards of 4MW per turbine, so a farm of 20 turbines can produce in the order of 800MW or about half to a one third the size of an average coal fired power plant (in Australia). -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
