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2004-07-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by tipper 2004-07-25 10:57|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 >So the net contribution of wind power to the electricity grid is minuscule. It is estimated that to match the output of one nuclear power station would require a "farm" of wind turbines the size of inner London.<

Bwaaahhaaaaa! Even though this fact was well known by anyone with the slightest scientific honesty, they still blew a wad of cash on it. And will probably continue to do so as long as energy policy is based on environmentalist fantasies.

Fusion Power is the answer and it's decades away. Till then, its nukes, gas and coal. Get use to it.

Posted by DaveMac 2004-07-25 11:14:12 AM|| 2004-07-25 11:14:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Worse than that is the realization that commercial ~~con~~fusion has been just 10 years away for the last 40 years. BTW, Den Beste has some interesting things to say abt alternative pwr... so long live coal/oil/nukes.

Posted by N Guard 2004-07-25 11:45:02 AM|| 2004-07-25 11:45:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Just look at the fiasco with the proposed wind farm off of Cape Cod and Nantucket. great idea till it would of ruined Teddy's view of the ocean (locally we had a radio contest to cast new characters for the "Andy Griffith Show" and Teddy got pegged as Otis). The solutions to the Fusion problem lok to be decades away unless somebody makes a breakthrough in the field. And this would most likely come from the people working with Frarnsworth style reactors. The current work at princeton and elsewhere is more devoted to producing Phds IIMO. Maybe we should turn over the Fusion research to the navy with the proviso that they be working on something that can fit in a ship. As for fission the Pebble Bed Reactors look to be a good bet in the terms of operating simplicity and safety. Plus there is always Space Based Solar. But one of the smartest things we could do is to re-instate the tax credits for increasing the energy efficency of our homes through being able to write of upgrades like new windows or insulation.

Posted by cheaderhead 2004-07-25 12:12:42 PM|| 2004-07-25 12:12:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Dream of wind power flags? Heck, I thought all flags were wind-powered!

Posted by Mike 2004-07-25 7:25:08 PM|| 2004-07-25 7:25:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Pity we can't put a few windmills in the Fleet Center for the Democratic Party Convention

Posted by Brutus 2004-07-25 9:36:26 PM|| 2004-07-25 9:36:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Brutus - better not. You'd blow the grid.

Posted by PBMcL 2004-07-26 12:13:00 AM|| 2004-07-26 12:13:00 AM|| Front Page Top

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