Re: Wind Power
From: Fred B. McGalliard (frederick.b.mcgalliard_at_boeing.com)
Date: 09/03/04
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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:59:09 GMT
"LongmuirG" <longmuirg@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Look -- the real point is that there is No Easy Choice when it comes to
energy
> supply.
I am not sure that this reasonably true statement is even related to the
wind energy discussion unless we were to start considering building
mountains to get at it. Two choices are pretty easy. Reduce demand, and use
all the wind you can lay your hands on easily. Nether of these will have a
noticeable impact compared to profligate expansion of demand or burning even
more coal (the alternatives). I would say the choice is easy enough in these
cases to make it pretty simple to chose. However, there are issues in wind
power that are not so easy. For example, if we really expanded this to the
wall, how far would that go, where would we put them all, how much manpower
has to be dedicated to repair and maintenance. Are there any real negatives.
Bird kills sounds like red herrings to me, but if we grew X100 and filled
whole valleys to a mile deep with blades, things might change. While I love
the lines of marching blades, others do not. How do we figure when the
impact to aesthetics becomes a serious impact? Noise. I think another red
herring, and that one does not scale much since a mile high flying blade
array, most of the blade noise is not synchronous and is too far to multiply
much. Should be pretty quiet. No reason to overstate the relative impact in
order to make no easy choice of what is otherwise an obvious easy choice.
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