Posted by Ludwig on May 10, 2011 at 10:57:02 from (69.87.199.86):
In Reply to: Wind Farms posted by The Dukester on May 10, 2011 at 07:40:50:
We've gotten 5 1.65MW units built within 10 minutes of my house in the past year and I wish we could get more. I went and parked under one of them (well, 100 yards off anyway) and with the sunroof in the car open I couldn't hear the blades at all if the car was running, even with the radio off. These are the BIG windmills... 2 of them are at a community college, 1 at a highschool and 2 at a prison. All are to offset the utility use of each institution. The college now gets something like 90% of its power from wind and solar. The 2 at the prison aren't spinning yet, it seems like it takes them 2-3 months after the thing is up before it gets spinning, at least that was the case with the other 3.
We've got choices, oil and coal aren't getting any cheaper. It seems like a dammed fool thing to me to not be using wind if you've got it.
To the "storage" crowd, you don't store electricity, you burn it. Smart money would build wind/solar/hydro to create our base power and use fossil fuels for peak demand and to cover low wind/water and maintenance periods. Saves our oil which is basically irreplaceable by using stuff we'll essentially always have. There are some other storage techniques, we've got Northfield Mountain for instance where they chopped the top off the hill and built a reservoir. In low demand/price periods they pump water up the hill. In high demand/price periods the water runs turbines. Been working since the 50s.
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