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2009-07-06 Science & Technology

China wants 100 GW of windpower by 2020

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Posted by 3dc 2009-07-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 And michelle obama wants real influence in the administration, and I want a Bugatti, and, oh, never mind...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2009-07-06 00:53|| 2009-07-06 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Oi vey, them too?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-07-06 04:29|| 2009-07-06 04:29|| Front Page Top

#3 And exactly how much land would be required to generate 100GW of wind power? To produce 1GW it takes about 300 square miles, according to some sources. You do the math.. I know China is big, but jeez, that's a lot of freaking giant turbines.

Posted by AllahHateMe 2009-07-06 09:52|| 2009-07-06 09:52|| Front Page Top

#4 China has plenty of wide open spaces out west, just like America.

Posted by gromky 2009-07-06 11:11|| 2009-07-06 11:11|| Front Page Top

#5 And even fewer powerlines & less infrastructure to take "advantage" of any large-scale windfarms they might build next to the pinwheels in outermost Tibet.

Feh. Windpower buffs bore me. It's worse than Keynsian hole-diggery, because the resulting plant disrupts existing, previously productive plant & causes cascading malapportionment of maintenance respurces.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-07-06 11:19|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-07-06 11:19|| Front Page Top

#6 And exactly how much land would be required to generate 100GW of wind power? To produce 1GW it takes about 300 square miles, according to some sources. You do the math.. I know China is big, but jeez, that's a lot of freaking giant turbines.

China, at 3.6m sq miles, is just a little larger than the US. 30,000 sq miles would be less than 1% of China's total land area. China does have huge areas of desert in its western border region.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-07-06 12:22|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-07-06 12:22|| Front Page Top

#7 If they sell T-bonds to fund it then...

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2009-07-06 12:45|| 2009-07-06 12:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Im into wind power, but it's not practical until the storage problem is solved, Batteries cannot be made that large (Yet), and intermittent wind is the killer here.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-07-06 14:36|| 2009-07-06 14:36|| Front Page Top

#9 What is the impact, if any, of these mega-wind farms on normal air flow, and therefore the environmnent? Taking that much power out of an air-stream would seem to have some effect in it's lee.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2009-07-06 15:57|| 2009-07-06 15:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Then, of course you get the blowhard tax to go along with the Carbon tax AlanC.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-07-06 16:23|| 2009-07-06 16:23|| Front Page Top

#11 My, AlanC, you have stumbled on a great point. Let's not go for nonpolluting power, instead let's stick with coal in China. What a great idea. I know that environmentalists like to invent mythical threats in order to block anything new, but this is just nuts.

Posted by gromky 2009-07-06 16:45|| 2009-07-06 16:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Here's the kicker most do not realize: for Wind to be effective it needs a fast-turn-on standby. And that's natural gas, if you look at available technology these days.

So look for China to start building NatGas power-plants to go along with the wind power. And for the price of Nat Gas to zoom when they turn those plants up.

Sidenote: Alaska, thanks to Palin's pipeline, will be in a great position to deliver a lot of Natural Gas to the lower 48 if they can get the enviro-whackos out of the way and drill for it.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-06 18:14|| 2009-07-06 18:14|| Front Page Top

#13 So they plan on installing lots of wind generators and then inviting Obama by to give a speech.

Posted by DMFD 2009-07-06 19:47|| 2009-07-06 19:47|| Front Page Top

#14 Nah, Biden will generate more wind.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-06 21:11|| 2009-07-06 21:11|| Front Page Top

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