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2008-09-05 Home Front Economy

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Posted by Bobby 2008-09-05 07:50|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Will I still be able to wind surf safely?

Posted by John Kerry 2008-09-05 08:26|| 2008-09-05 08:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Watch the sharks and the pylons.

Posted by Perfesser 2008-09-05 08:46|| 2008-09-05 08:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Teddy will want to reverse the juice to make sure he has good sailing wind.

Posted by ed 2008-09-05 08:56|| 2008-09-05 08:56|| Front Page Top

#4 People who advocate wind power for anything but pumping water don't know much about running power grids.

Posted by Plastic Snoopy 2008-09-05 10:56|| 2008-09-05 10:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Wind power isn't bad to supplement other power sources or to take certain areas off the grid. It is not a solution to replace anything.

I would love to see a plan to have universities (for example) take themselves off the grid using wind turbines and/or solar. If enough do it we might be able to change the cost structure and make it more affordable for small towns (the way its done in Germany) or corpate campuses to do the same.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-05 11:10|| 2008-09-05 11:10|| Front Page Top

#6 "take themselves off the grid using wind turbines and/or solar"
Are you proposing some huge electricity storage system, or are they supposed to do without power on many cloudy days and nights?

Posted by Darrell 2008-09-05 11:25|| 2008-09-05 11:25|| Front Page Top

#7 At night they suck off the grid, but our power grid is rarely taxed at night. The idea is to take them off during the peak hours during the work day.

As I said, a supplement to the grid, not a replacement for.

In California we had rolling blackouts a few years back. It would have been nice to have a few extra energy sources adding TO the grid as Clint Eastwoods golf course does.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-05 12:21|| 2008-09-05 12:21|| Front Page Top

#8 This is probably too simple an idea, Why not do both?, I see no reason why Oil rigs can't also be wind tower supports.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-09-05 13:13|| 2008-09-05 13:13|| Front Page Top

#9 My problem is the absolutest idea that it must be this and nothing else. Or that and nothing else. And whatever solution is chosen must be done in centralized concepts.

Try everything. Decentralize so that we don't overtax the power grid. If something doesn't work kill it and try something else.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-05 14:18|| 2008-09-05 14:18|| Front Page Top

#10 I bet if they told them they were giant fans to keep them cool in the summer and warm in the winter they would be all for it.

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-09-05 17:32|| 2008-09-05 17:32|| Front Page Top

#11 And the sound is designed to help them sleep...

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-09-05 19:22|| 2008-09-05 19:22|| Front Page Top

#12 the wind could power the oil rigs...

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-05 20:22|| 2008-09-05 20:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Are you proposing some huge electricity storage system

There's always lotsa wind (faculty generated) around campuses.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-09-05 21:57|| 2008-09-05 21:57|| Front Page Top

#14 I saw a storage idea the other day that was based on windmills and compressed air. That made a good deal of sense, maybe it could make storage affordable. And rjshwarz, in the end it will be an "all of the above" solution, bet the farm on it.

Posted by Whavish Untervehr4912 2008-09-05 23:10|| 2008-09-05 23:10|| Front Page Top

#15 compressed air on a national scale? Bzzzzzt

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-05 23:42|| 2008-09-05 23:42|| Front Page Top

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