Comments on: Why wind energy blows http://aconservativelesbian.com/2009/04/13/why-wind-energy-blows/ A Conservative Lesbian Thu, 10 May 2012 02:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cynthia Yockey http://aconservativelesbian.com/2009/04/13/why-wind-energy-blows/#comment-510 Cynthia Yockey Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:43:27 +0000 http://www.aconservativelesbian.com/aclblog/?p=600#comment-510 Barbara Durkin, Your blog is empty of content and all the links on it go to blank pages, so I deleted your comment as spam. You are welcome to comment again when your site has content and your links go to real content. Cynthia Barbara Durkin,

Your blog is empty of content and all the links on it go to blank pages, so I deleted your comment as spam. You are welcome to comment again when your site has content and your links go to real content.

Cynthia

]]> By: Steve Poling http://aconservativelesbian.com/2009/04/13/why-wind-energy-blows/#comment-509 Steve Poling Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:23:19 +0000 http://www.aconservativelesbian.com/aclblog/?p=600#comment-509 Ted Kennedy famously opposed the Cape Wind project b/c it would disturb the view from his house. And of his rich neighbors. Nevertheless, the trouble with all the alternative energy sources is that they are intermittent. Electricity cannot be efficiently stored and that's a problem. Though I would like to see someone run the numbers of a combo of shoreline windmills and pumped storage facilities. Michigan has a lot of potential for this, but don't count on Jennie Granholm to ever back anything like it. The real need is for baseline power generation. If you don't like CO2 emissions, then nuclear is the only way to go. And the very best nuclear engineering program in the entire world is at The University of Michigan. Not that I'm biased or anything. As we speak there are fission reactor designs coming out of UMich that burn rad waste in a conventional light water reactor with just a fuel rod design change. Go Blue. Ted Kennedy famously opposed the Cape Wind project b/c it would disturb the view from his house. And of his rich neighbors. Nevertheless, the trouble with all the alternative energy sources is that they are intermittent. Electricity cannot be efficiently stored and that’s a problem. Though I would like to see someone run the numbers of a combo of shoreline windmills and pumped storage facilities. Michigan has a lot of potential for this, but don’t count on Jennie Granholm to ever back anything like it.

The real need is for baseline power generation. If you don’t like CO2 emissions, then nuclear is the only way to go. And the very best nuclear engineering program in the entire world is at The University of Michigan. Not that I’m biased or anything. As we speak there are fission reactor designs coming out of UMich that burn rad waste in a conventional light water reactor with just a fuel rod design change.

Go Blue.

]]> By: Cynthia Yockey http://aconservativelesbian.com/2009/04/13/why-wind-energy-blows/#comment-508 Cynthia Yockey Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:42:36 +0000 http://www.aconservativelesbian.com/aclblog/?p=600#comment-508 Smitty, Naturally the upper and lower boundaries of the vortices should be researched, but I expect they extend down to the ground and far above the wind turbines, which I call "bird Cuisinarts." Wind power supporters in Maryland covet the breezes wafting over the state's extremely modest mountain peaks and want to chop down all those unsightly trees there and replace them with wind turbines. How can that NOT chop up migratory birds? Regarding Ted Kennedy, do you mean he has opposed nuclear power and therefore you support it? If so, that's good enough for me; I'm just not clear that's what you mean. Cynthia Smitty,

Naturally the upper and lower boundaries of the vortices should be researched, but I expect they extend down to the ground and far above the wind turbines, which I call “bird Cuisinarts.” Wind power supporters in Maryland covet the breezes wafting over the state’s extremely modest mountain peaks and want to chop down all those unsightly trees there and replace them with wind turbines. How can that NOT chop up migratory birds?

Regarding Ted Kennedy, do you mean he has opposed nuclear power and therefore you support it? If so, that’s good enough for me; I’m just not clear that’s what you mean.

Cynthia

]]> By: smitty http://aconservativelesbian.com/2009/04/13/why-wind-energy-blows/#comment-507 smitty Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:01:10 +0000 http://www.aconservativelesbian.com/aclblog/?p=600#comment-507 I'm not sure that bees cruise at blade altitude. But I'm pretty much in favor of anything Ted Kennedy has opposed in the past (not to hammer a guy with brain cancer, but his political moves are fair game). I’m not sure that bees cruise at blade altitude.
But I’m pretty much in favor of anything Ted Kennedy has opposed in the past (not to hammer a guy with brain cancer, but his political moves are fair game).

]]> By: Darius http://aconservativelesbian.com/2009/04/13/why-wind-energy-blows/#comment-506 Darius Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:12:16 +0000 http://www.aconservativelesbian.com/aclblog/?p=600#comment-506 You may want to also check out Eric S Raymond's note on Alternative enrgy sources here: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=521 Also denBeste: http://www.denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/09/Obscureenergysources.shtml and here: http://www.denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/09/Morepracticalproblems.shtml and here: http://chizumatic.mee.nu/ghosts_of_my_past You may want to also check out Eric S Raymond’s note on Alternative enrgy sources here:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=521

Also denBeste:
http://www.denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/09/Obscureenergysources.shtml
and here:
http://www.denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2002/09/Morepracticalproblems.shtml
and here:
http://chizumatic.mee.nu/ghosts_of_my_past

]]> By: Sean http://aconservativelesbian.com/2009/04/13/why-wind-energy-blows/#comment-505 Sean Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:31:09 +0000 http://www.aconservativelesbian.com/aclblog/?p=600#comment-505 Most excellent view. I can't recall as to where I read the article, but the British have wind farms that are VERY ineffective, expensive and hard to upkeep. Keep the faith! Sean~ aka EagleEye Most excellent view. I can’t recall as to where I read the article, but the British have wind farms that are VERY ineffective, expensive and hard to upkeep.

Keep the faith!

Sean~ aka EagleEye

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