You trust wind power??? (solar, biodiesel, oil, installation)
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MAX GENERATION ALERT!!! 2000 mws of coal are out of service in Minnesota. MISO hase called on Oil/NG fired units to pick up slack...Love the smell of burning diesel
P.S. http://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=mn
Fifty-three percent of the electricity generated in Minnesota came from coal-fired electric power plants in 2011; most of its coal supply was brought in by rail from Montana and Wyoming.
Minnesota ranked fourth in the Nation in net electricity generation from wind energy in 2011; its net generation was 6.8 million megawatthours in 2011, an increase of 42 percent from 2010.
You trust wind power???
Yes I trust wind power, but not as an exclusive resource or even a major producer...
I'm not sure what the disaster photos had to do with anything, but wind power can become a major piece of the renewable energy puzzle if we allow it to be. The main trick is putting it in the right sites.
As it happens I live only a half hour from one of the most effective windfarms in the world, Pakini Nui Wind Farm near Southpoint, Hawai'i. It has 14 GE turbines, generating a peak 21 MW since 2007, due to the nearly constant 27 mph wind at this, the southernmost point in the southernmost state in the country. Pakini Nui replaced the earlier Kamoa Wind Farm in nearly the same place, which ran 37 turbines generating 9.3 MW peak from 1986 to 2006. Along with a geothermal plant, a repurposed coalfired generator that now burn biomass, a biodiesel oil distillery, a deepwater thermal generation plant, and a high number of residential solar installations, the Big Island is now getting half its power from renewable resources.
But no single one stands alone, because each has different generating cycles, maintenance cycles, etc. But they all work together to create a synergistic whole.
Wind power is a joke. I live in west Texas, and we have hundreds of these in our area. The wind does not always blow. In fact, on the hotest days in summer, we typically get little or no wind at all. That will not run the AC, the lights or anything else. Its a terrible investment in money because the power companies still have to keep capacity running, even when the wind is blowing, just in case the wind dies. Wind is good for pumping water out of the ground on a farm, or charging up batteries. Other than that, forget it.
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