Re: Wind Power

From: Jo Stein (jstein_at_broadpark.no)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:04:28 +0200

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 04:08:20 GMT, Dan Bloomquist
<EXTRApublic20@lakeweb.com> wrote in <413156AB.8000401@lakeweb.com>:

>Coal installs for $1.00/watt. You have to figure the lifetime cost of
>production. Modern wind turbines just don't fail so installed cost is
>lifetime cost.

And most of them have a very short lifetime.
I get the impression that they all ways fail.
Maybe it is because I am looking for it:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=at5h2f%24107qt6%241%40ID-26288.news.dfncis.de
>This summer 16 turbines of this type:
><URL:http://www.nordex-online.com/_e/produkte_und_service/onshore/n80/N80-info-engl.html>
>was installed close to Nordkapp, the top of mainland Norway.
>One of them fell down after 2 weeks of operation.

http://www.elsamkraft.dk/page.dsp?area=744
  "The harsh conditions at the North Sea have impeded work and that is
  why Vestas considers whether it will be appropriate to dismantle all
  nacelles and bring them ashore to repair them under optimum
  conditions."

It has big influence on shareholders money when you have to bring
80 wind turbines ashore for repair.

Here you can see a cheaper solution.
Cost of Nuclear is 50% of wind.
http://www.tvo.fi/137.htm
-- jo
 "Some people will do anything to save the Earth,
  except taking a science course" P.J. O'Rourke

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