How can the USA catch up to Germany & the European Union?

T. Boone Pickens investing his $10 BILLION into world's biggest windfarm in Texas. USA is the "Persian Gulf of Wind" with 2/3 of USA electricity able to be provided by the winds of the Dakotas alone. The other third could be provided by Texas' winds. Texas now Number One windpower state in USA! Area in Nevada 100 X 120 miles rectangle could provide all USA electricity via solar power (UCS). Germany phasing out nuclear power (most Americans unaware of this) because they lead world in windpower with nearly 21,000 megawatts of windpower, and adding over 1000 megawatts windpower each year at an increasing rate, plus buying up lots of planet's solar power production and technology. Average nuclear plant: 1000 megawatts. Germany has 24 nuclear plants it is phasing out. 21,000 megawatts of windpower=21 nuclear plants, without the dangers of meltdowns, steam explosions (Chernobyl April 26, 1986 over 300,000 dead prematurely from cancer and other diseases, and numbers still growing) or daily leaks and ventings. Plume of radioactive strontium found heading toward Hudson River in NY, Westchester County, from Indian Point nuclear plant. To catch up with world, do NOT want to become any kind of dumping ground for world's wastes, especially the worst kind of all: RADIOACTIVE WASTE. Call your congressperson and tell them to support HR5632 to prevent Italy from sending 20,000 TONS of their radiaoctive waste to USA. Or bring this HR 5632 to floor of the House for debate. 202-224-3121 to call Congress, both Senate and House. Phase out nuclear power ASAP as Germany and other smart countries have decided including Austria and Belgium.

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[damatt08]

the comments on the box, 2/3 of the US electricity from nebraska or wherever?

thats so wrong its not even close

[conradmillermd]

@damatt08 Made by the Dept of Energy or the DOE. 2/3 of USA electricity can be supplied by winds of the Dakotas alone; the other third from the winds of Texas (now our #1 wind power state). We're the Persian Gulf of Wind, mate! & #1 in windpower in the world right now. 10,000 megawatts went up in 2009 in our USA=to three nuclear power plants (33% capacity factor for wind, theoretical for nuclear 92% when on line). 7-8 yrs to build Ga plants could have 24-27 nuclear plant equivalents wind

[waddlerobloxxxx]

@DrBuzz0 Failfag

There not building new coal burners, THEY ARE DOING BUGFIXES ON THEM BEACAUSE OF AL GORE

[JOHNINCOLUMBUS]

I was trying to listen to what he was saying, but I couldn't help but wonder what person or animal he had swallowed, certainly that wasn't his moustache!

[DrBuzz0]

Man this douchebag really gets under my skin. Apparently no mention of the fact that Germany is building and upgrading dozens of coal burners and even more gas burners.

Seriously, with the exception of China no other country in the world is planning on building more new coal plants.

This dude has been lying for years. He has no nuclear or energy sector background. He's almost as lame as his mustache.

[conradmillermd]

@Lintflas Yes, Germany has been way smarter in garnering wind and solar technology. But guess who will be number one shortly if the USA and Germany don't step up their game radically like they could and should to vastly increase their wind turbinage and solar roof panelling: China! Ready to rock the wind world, they are. Tho they're also building lots of nuclear reactors. The way of the world sez that if there's gonna be a next Chernobyl it'll be in a corrupt poorly regulating country like..

[Lintflas]

@conradmillermd

Of course you put up more wind turbines because you have a bigger country with more space to place them, so you have more megawatts in the end. This doesn't change the fact that Germany still is world leader in renewable energy technology. Germany started research in the early 90s long time before others, but it's good to see Americans following the same path.

Next step for USA should be energy saving standards for houses and fuel-efficient cars.

[conradmillermd]

@Lintflas Do you know that the USA is #1 in windpower now? Few do. The media is not displaying this for us and we should be proud of it. We put up 10,000 megawatts of wind turbines in 2009, putting us at ~35,000 megawatts vs Germany and China being at ~25,000 MW each. By the way 10,000 MW=~3 nuclear plants. Project that for 10 yrs, assuming we don't increase the deployment of wind turbines, & that could equal at least 30 new nuclear plants worth of wind without the cancer or pollution.

[Lintflas]

@conradmillermd

Nope, you didn't catch up to Germany yet, because they're also leader in solar energy. When you take renewable energy as a whole, Germany is still world leader.

They have the most advanced engineering solutions and technology in wind and solar, because they already started working on this in the early 90s.

[s1mmelOne]

@conradmillermd Lol nice argument.... look at the size of the countries and the amount of ppl living in them. Your comparison is faulty here! Don't stop with the megwatts, put them in relation to the amount of ppl getting windpower and you'll get a completly different result ;-)

[conradmillermd]

@nexus8126 There are thousands of jobs for technical wind repair people as the wind turbine industry expands. Wind turbines will improve and they won't emit radioactive strontium or tritium or leak cancer causing long-lived waste and blow up like a Chernobyl that now has 980,000 premature fatalities according to the latest book by Russian biologist Dr. Alexey Yablokov.