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KingM34 (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-15-06 02:35 PM Original message |
Blow, Winds, and Crack Your Cheeks! |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-15-06 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. Wind has one well-known drawback: it does not blow all the time. |
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skids (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-15-06 02:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Yeah, only in the energy storage tech puff peices. |
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KingM34 (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-15-06 03:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. re: wind power |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-15-06 03:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Europe is planning a "Super Grid" to link offshore wind farms |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-15-06 03:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. I hope somebody publishes a cost for this plan. It would be educational. |
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Dead_Parrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-15-06 04:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. To put it mildly. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-15-06 04:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. The cost of the proposed 10 GW North Sea wind farm is ~22 Billion Euros |
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KingM34 (141 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-15-06 06:28 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. not bad |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon May-15-06 06:43 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. It's the cost of these fancy grid upgrades that I'm most interested in. |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 01:09 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Very R. Buckminster Fuller... |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 12:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. It blows enough that |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 12:28 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Sure, but they pump H2O into big buffers, called "tanks" |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 01:23 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Wind will be backed up by natural gas, or synthetic fuels |
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phantom power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 01:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. That is the problem, as I see it. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 03:33 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. No |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 04:39 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. After we run out of bullets we'll be clubbing one another with sticks... |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-17-06 04:41 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. France imports all of its uranium |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-18-06 12:52 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. My crystal ball seems clear... |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-18-06 01:49 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. My crystal ball sees all the major uranium importers fighting for the |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-18-06 02:12 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Of course, there's always thorium reserve alternatives |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-18-06 02:18 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. They better start building those (nonexistent) thorium reactors PDQ |
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dcfirefighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-18-06 03:18 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Well said. nt |
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