[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Report: Enough wind offshore to electrify America > >Wind power offshore can equal the present capacity of all landed power >plants. U.S. Dept. of Energy report is another big leap forward for >Cape Wind
That is astounding. There is also enough wind power in North and South Dakota to power the entire U.S., but they are farther from population centers than offshore locations. Europe has roughly 4 times as much offshore wind power capacity as their present consumption. Since electric cars are more efficient than gasoline powered ones, I expect there is more than enough wind power in the world to generate all of the energy we now use. We need only two things: the ideal battery and HTSC power lines. Wind power projections keep rising as the size of wind turbines increases, because they sweep a larger cross-section of the atmosphere. It would be interesting if carbon fiber towers and turbine blades 1 km long could be developed. - Jed
