I"ll make cookies Tony On 3/21/08, Eric Banford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just read in the April issue of Ode Magazine ( > http://www.odemagazine.com/) that Thisted Denmark is now producing 100% of > their energy from wind. They have a population of 46,000, and now have 250 > windmills running. They also have a few farms producing biogas, and many > homes have personal wind mills. The town is attracting lots of jobs within > the alternative energy sector. > > By my rough estimates, here is what we would need to do in Ithaca. With a > population of 30,000 people, we would need approximately 160 wind mills. > Looking at this WI wind farm as an example, > http://www.mge.com/environment/wind/, they have 17 turbines operating on > 30.5 acres leased from 7 parcels of agricultural land totaling 600 acres. > We would need to build about 10 of these farms. Probably more, since WI no > doubt gets better wind than Tompkins County, but that's a start. At a cost > of $14.5 million per farm, that's a total of $145 million to be energy > independent. > > Feedback on my rough numbers? > > Shall we hold a bake sale to get started? > > Eric > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > _______________________________________________ > RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: > [email protected] > http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins > free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org >
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