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- biohzrd, on 07/14/2008, -1/+10If the wind is too high, make smaller windmills. Why couldn't they produce hydrogen to be picked up once a month instead of transmitting electricity long distances? Short sighted thought processes won't get us anywhere.
- JHW539, on 07/14/2008, -0/+4Bullshiat. Just because a bunch of NIMBYs prefer to call themselves preservationists doesn't mean "all" preservationists and bird lovers are coming out against wind power. Either you're very easily mislead ("hurr, CNN's headline said...") or you are flogging your own personal agenda by lying about the facts.
- EatingPie, on 07/14/2008, -4/+8Basing a wind farm on one criteria isn't really so smart. Several of these locations are so remote, there's no viability at all.
Also, I believe the strength of wind, along with consistency, should also be considered... is the wind blowing too hard for the Wind Farms to function?
-Pie - Futurejunior, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3The problem with this is that transporting energy long distance results in lots of loss. If they could use the energy for something useful (desalination maybe?) and come pick up the product it would be more worth it.
- inactive, on 07/14/2008, -2/+5Sad part is now the coastal preservationist and the bird lovers are all coming out against wind power. Go read up on the Cape Cod wind farm difficulties
- waldo21, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3Many of the newer turbines simply derate at speeds greater than 50-50 mph. Earlier versions would shutdown completely. Most have a survival wind speed that exceeds gale-force winds, and I'm sure the off shore turbines are engineered to sustain hurricane force winds.
Smaller turbines would not solve the problem, and may actually exacerbate it. Larger turbines use the mass of the rotor itself to help mitigate the effects of gusts (or drops in windspeed). Thus a larger mass can better handle severe gusts as it is not so easily perturbed. - biohzrd, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2Or vehicles that run on the "product" being picked up.
- jmkiii, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2Force Field--boing......BLAMO YOURSELF!!!
- waldo21, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2Based on an earlier comment about the remoteness, and another about hydrogen conversion.... What if some of these sites are located in established shipping lanes, and could be used as refueling stations??? A long way off I know, and nobody has even thought about using hydrogen for a large shipping vessel.. but just a thought..
- leerayIG88, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1Nope sorry, I have a invisible forcefield that runs on cold fusion. Also I have another one behind it.
so... My Force field X2-ding.......KABOOM into the ocean. - TwistyMcFister, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1/queue Journey
"Wind farm in the sky keep on turnin!!" - PabloMac, on 07/14/2008, -1/+2"Pick up the product" in fossil fuel vehicles?
- waldo21, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1Part of the loss would be mitigated by the fact that the cables would be laid on the ocean floor where temperatures are quite low. Below the thermocline, temperatures approach 0 degrees Celsius. That will greatly increase the efficiency of transmission.
Also, the cable would be laid directly on the sea floor, thus much of the traditional cost of transmission towers, trenching etc, is offset. The cable would be more expensive so that might even out, but it is still a very viable proposition. - geometry, on 07/14/2008, -0/+1Hmmm, ever looked up Cape Cod on a map? This article is talking about floating wind farms in the middle of the ocean. Last time I checked not many migratory birds fly between Europe and USA through the middle of the Antlantic. The bird people don't want wind farms close to the coast and in the Gulf of Mexico.
- TopDawgs, on 07/22/2008, -0/+0Let them experiment with the whole alternative energy thing. As the above poster stated, there better be something changing really soon. Who cares about the dangers of a few birds when an entire species of birds could be wiped out from global warming.
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There will be complaints about every new technology out there. - slayernine, on 07/14/2008, -1/+1Has anyone seen that youtube video of the wind farm being ripped apart by a big storm? I would post a link but I wouldn't want you to think I'm rick rolling you.
- mnky9800n, on 07/14/2008, -0/+0And by not posting it you make me think you are making it up.
- Mononuclear, on 07/14/2008, -4/+1This would never go down but we have so many obese people in the world we would make the movement of these people generate energy and kill two birds with on stone. It would be harder for them to move because the resistance used to generate energy so they would work more and lose weight. The calories they are burning in their body can be transformed into electricity.
Or they would just move even less and get fatter... Another idea is all those spinning classes they have in gyms everywhere. We could use stationary bikes to power the gym. For that matter use all resistance based exercises to generate power. - leerayIG88, on 07/14/2008, -6/+1Ion Cannon--pssshhhh......BLAMO!!!
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