Re: DON'T LOSE time and money around the fusion energy illusion and the lunar-helium-3 dream!!!

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:17:42 -0700, in a place far, far away,
gaetanomarano <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor
glow in such a way as to indicate that:

On 30 Ago, 18:06, Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In fact wind power can work out quite expensive. There is the capital
cost and maintainance. In fact in Britain a lot of wind power
installations only exist because of subsidies.

In fact the most promising renewable is solar.


the US Department of Energy say that wind energy prices already are
close or lower that oil/methane-derived energy (and they don't talk of
any subsidies to influence that prices)

the fact is that wind turbines' prices are now very competitive (at
less than $1M per installed MW) and that prices are likely to FALL
quickly thanks to scale-economy (since the number of new wind turbines
will SOON grow from thousands
to hundreds thousands per year)

There are a finite number of locations where wind turbines are
practical, and cost effective. This sets an effective (low) upper
limit on the amount of energy that they can provide.
.

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