One of my goals in my life is to own a small lot of land, not sure if you'd call it a ranch or not, consisting of a few dozen acres.  I'd be glad to clear a small patch in the brush and grass for a couple of these windmills.  I'm sure just two or three would be plenty enough to keep my estate self-suffiecent.

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I think so.

Much more beautiful than a coal power station.

Benja.

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My moblog.

Verbosity filters eat babies indiscriminately.

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Personally, I think they should pay the money to keep energy prices down out of their own pockets if they so despiratly want to eliminate these other means to keep the prices down.

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"I'm sure that with understanding of the high winds that the windmills could be designed to withstand such high winds, even encourage the high winds to accelrate energy production."

If you are refering to straight-line winds I agree. But you mentioned tornado alley earlier and I fear it's going to be a very long time before we have the technology to build anything that will withstand the fury of a tornado, let alone continue to operate. If you've ever seen the aftermath of a tornato, you know that there is usually nothing left standing in its path.

If that's not what you were refering to, please accept my apology. And here is an interesting site by way of amends:

http://www.energy.ca.gov/wind/overview.html

(I hope I got that right)


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"God does not play dice" - Albert Einstein
"God does play dice" - Stephen Hawking

Hydrogen is currently a giant load of bullshit. Hydrogen in the current political sense requires platinumn as a catalyst. Anyone want to look up on the commodities exchange what Platinium is going for? Good luck with that. We are decades away from hydrogen as a viable fuel source.

As for oil, the anwr is crap. 10 years we'll see that first drop of oil and by then the amount produced won't make a dent, and it will be priced at international levels. Big fricken deal. That is hardly a solution, more of a industry kickback.

the best solution now is obvious

Efficiency is everything. The average car is 30% efficent. Meaning 70% of the potential energy is not used to move the car and is wasted. That essentially means 70% of the gas you pay for does not add any value to your car or transport you. Most industrial and household products roughly run the same. Increasing a mere 5% on all products could cut down on energy demand in absolute astronomical terms.

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The natural byproduct of brewing is ethanol, it doesn't really require any energy to produce, as it is simply waste from the various beer companies.  Now corn ethanol, what is being pushed on us by the government and media, is nowhere near cost effiecent.

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So far the best supplier of ethanol out there is Coor's.  They are already in the Rocky Mountians producing beer, and it would cost them money to throw away the ethanol byproduct.  So now they sell it for cheap and pull a nearly 100% profit on it.

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As if we needed more proof that beer is the greatest invention of all time.

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