Re: FIGHTING FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

From: Eunometic (eunometic_at_yahoo.com.au)
Date: 09/21/04 

Date: 20 Sep 2004 21:38:15 -0700

usenet@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote in message news:<Nqy5R11qRgs6@tL279q3JjEOcdy>...
> FIGHTING FOR AMERICA'S ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
>
> Forwarded message from fidyl@yahoo.com
>
> [ Subject: Fighting for America's Energy Independence
> [ From: fidyl@yahoo.com
> [ Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004
>
> Fighting for America's Energy Independence
>
> By Matt Bivens
> The Nation
> April 8, 2002
>
> http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12804
>
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> The so-called wind production tax credit (PTC) Dorgan was
> championing is tiny as subsidies go -- over a decade it
> has cost roughly $55 million -- and remarkably effective.
> Wind is the fastest-growing energy industry in the world,
> and last year was the US wind-power industry's best ever,
> with power capacity equivalent to that of roughly six
> coal-fired power plants coming online -- minus coal's
> pollution.

Not they are talking about "wind power" not "wind energy". Becuase
the wind doesn't blow all the time (average of only 40% of the time)
you still need the very same power stations he insults. In terms of
wind energy that is only about 40% that of the power.

I.E. Those 6 equivalent to coal power stations of wind turbines will
only produce the energy of 6/2.5 or 2.4 power stations.

Put in perspective all of those 'wind farms' aren't even keeping pace
with legal and illegal Mexican immigration.

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