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[Drake]

Ok sports fans what do you think?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/business/04wind.html?ref=business

[fishinglady]

I'd get some wind turbines right away. They aren't any uglier than satellite dishes on people's roofs or the offshore wells, and wind is renewable resource that doesn't pollute or add to global warming. Think of the energy that could be produced if every house or neighborhood had their own wind turbines and solar panels. Plus, maintenance and installation provide jobs that can't be outsourced to China.

Just the other night the whole island lost power for 7 hours--no apology and no rebate for time without power--and the electric bills just keep going up.

I think they ought to set up a whole line of the wind turbines on the spoil islands up and down the ICW; with the wind here, it could probably supply most of the power needed for Corpus.

It's high time people start being more "green", whether with wind & solar power, or recycling their garbage and using cloth shopping bags instead of plastic....not to mention the waste of all those throw-away plastic water bottles.

[Big John]

Here's a question I thought up on wind and solar.

The energy created from wind turbines is drawn by the wind pushing a turbine, effectively slowing the wind down - be it ever so small. The wind must be slower for energy in to = energy out. Say we put up 10's of 1000's of turbines, oir even more. What impact to the environment will slowing down that much wind have? Since wind drives almost all of our climates, what will happen?

With solar energy - part of the energy that the earth gets to warm it is from the sun. This heat is radiated back at night keeping the world warmer. What happened when we cover all the world's sunniest places with solar panels? How does this affect the planet's system? Plus, what about all that heat being reflected back off the panles during the day? The air over solar farms can get super heated, so what effect will larger and many more solar farms have on the environment? don't take this to lightly. Remember, if the sun ever were to go out, we would have a whole 4 to 5 weeks before we all froze solid. The transfer of heat into the earth from the sun is essential.

The energy in the world is only so much. Energy in always equals energy out - at some point or another.
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[landlocked beachbum]

No matter how you slice it there's no free lunch. There is cause an effect to everything. I heard a guy on the radio the other day asking what would the effect be with the massive addition of water vapor to the atmosphere if we all went to hydrogen!

I gotta tell you folks: I'd rather be warmer than colder any day of the week!!!
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits". Albert Einstein

[Mad Dog]

Big John & Landlocked, those are some very interesting obsevations. This reminds me that we live in a universe of entropy. If the theory of the big bang is true then it is just a matter of time before every bit of energy, of any form, is completely gone. If that is true then what is the point of anything. Let's just "eat, drink, and be merry... for tomorrow we die." Hmmm. Navel pondering time.


MD
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[Mad Dog]

[catfish]

Come to west Texas if you want to see what several hundred in a bunch look like. They are springing up like dandelions in your lawn.

[larry meinert]

An Eye Doctor in Plano had a turbine installed at his office building that I service. Looks real expensive. My guess is 8 or 10 foot x 3 prop blade on top of a 40 or 50 foot alum. pole. I wonder if he figured in the cost of repairing the 150 feet of lawn sprinkler that they destroyed when they installed the thing?

[Uncle D]

As I under stand it CC has a restriction on turbines in the city limits. Don't know any details. D