Largest Wind Farm In the World

[Texas3Step]

I live in San Antonio, and see the trucks bound for the Wind Farm on the highway all the time. It takes one 18-wheeler to haul one (yes, one!) of those enormous replacement fan blades out to the Wind Farm. And of course other parts travel on other trucks. And conventional power sources are used to manufacture the parts for the turbines. Alternative energy is a great goal, but even in pursuit of that, we are still heavily dependent on oil, and will be for a long, long time.

[hawkermustang]

I hear T. Boone has spent over 2 billion dollars on his wind farms. He now realized he screwed up. He is cutting his loses and getting out.

[rickcain2320]

@hawkermustang

Naw, T. Boone lied about his wind farm plans, he was just wanting the land. He's a scumbag.

[hawkermustang]

@rickcain2320 He said he lost 2 billion dollars. Wind farms are not profitable. Every one is subsidized by the tax payers.

[gertvisserveessen]

Well, since EVERY installed Watt on windenergy must have a back-up (coal- gas- or nuclear power) you can never close 1 power station by installing wind turbines. When wind blows and turbines are finally producing energie, conventional powerplants have to bring down their delivered power, with dramatical cosequenses fot their thermic efficiency/yield. Keeping them standby till the moment the wind decreases also takes energy, giving CO2-emissions. Per saldo the profit of the turbines is nihil

[XrainbowX15]

I wish they would have a huge windfarm in bridgend...

[cre8ivauk]

just get in touch with Vestas!!! they'l put you right, i'l sor tyou out with who to contact if you want

[richardyingren]

Elecricity generation and distribution professional engineers with years of 'hands on' experience tell us that wind as as source of electricity generation is a fallacy. Here in the UK .... EU money fuels the greed for large scale wind turbines and has totally distorted any sane scientific discussion. Fact based on knowledge not 'green' whimsy.

[thegoosebrain]

All this guy wants is to control the electrical supply for that part of the country. Its NOT about getting off OIL or reducing greenhouse gas. He's a BUSINESS MAN and he wants to CONTROL this sector of the power industry and he wants YOU, the TAXPAYER, to foot the bill for the grid that has to be built while he stands to make tens of billions of dollars. End of thy lesson, suckers!

[ibook133]

3 nuclear power plants would be about 2600 megawatts.

[mayes2158]

Thats just 1 duel unit plant. LaSalle Nuclear plant, you can google it, has 2 running units. Unit 1 produces 1,118MWe, unit 2 produces 1,120MWe for a total of 2,238MWe. That is only one of 6 plants in Illinois. Braidwood -duel unit- 2,330MWe, Byron -duel unit- 2,300MWe, Clinton -single unit- 1,043MWe, Dresden -duel unit- 1,734MWe, Quad Cities -duel unit- 1,734MWe.

So 2 duel unit Nuclear plants can produce more MWe on a fraction of the land than this windfarm covering 4 counties produces.

[ibook133]

Yea,but wind isnt deadly to most life. :)

[mayes2158]

Tornados and Hurricanes are deadly to most life.... :)

[Battlecorps101]

But tornadoes and Hurricanes don't leave behind deadly toxic waste, which is really hard to get rid of. And Plutonium and Uranium isn't a renewable energy source.

[ThfWrc]

But when a wind farm goes away...or has an accident you don't have to evacuate....

[mayes2158]

That's everyone's argument, but I implore you to do the research. The last major incident on US soil where there was a evacuation and release of iodine-131 , was in 1979 Three Mile Island. Over 30 years ago.

I work at nuclear plants for a living and can tell you, they are extremely safe. The amount of regulation and safety protocols involved would make your head spin. All critical systems have back-ups, and back-ups for those back ups.

[bjnboy]

Where were back-ups when the Chernobyl incident occurred?

Just a question.

[mayes2158]

Chernobyl is in Soviet Union, they may not have strict regulations like the U.S. We have NRC, OSHA, EPA and a whole bunch of others keeping us safe. Quote from wikipedia " The operators of the power plant and the conductors of the experiment on the No. 4 reactor held too much faith in the reactor; to them, a catastrophe was simply inconceivable. Because of this, they had no qualms about disabling the safety features of the reactor and taking unnecessary risks to carry out the experiment."

[Dalypics]

search for

"Truth About The Pickens Plan" | ZapRoot

and learn about his water rights

[ibook133]

4000 megawatts? Do it!

[waheex]

whats that about 3 nuclear power plants worth? - sound good

[vhbeazel]

I am reposting this on Change discussions for Wind2Wheat and Oil2Wind; Video Challenge