http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/02/09/letter-to-the-editor-stop-printing-talking-points/ Climate Change News & Analysis Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:41:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/02/09/letter-to-the-editor-stop-printing-talking-points/comment-page-1/#comment-68249 nofreewind Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:44:59 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=12963#comment-68249 So we are going to retire 2600 MW of coal plants and do what to replace that energy? How about we simply put up 7,000 1.5 MW wind turbines that will have an average output of 25%? Each one of those 7,000 turbines need about 75 acres of space. That is about 500,000 acres which converts to 780 square miles of land. Sure, this makes good sense. Oh, I forgot one small detail. We will still need the 2600 MW of coal or nat gas or nuclear, because because much of the time the wind is either not blowing or hardly blowing. And the wind blows more at night, when we don't even need it. It blows less when we need it during those hot, still summer days or during a cold, cold front in the winter. Never mind about the details. So we are going to retire 2600 MW of coal plants and do what to replace that energy? How about we simply put up 7,000 1.5 MW wind turbines that will have an average output of 25%? Each one of those 7,000 turbines need about 75 acres of space. That is about 500,000 acres which converts to 780 square miles of land. Sure, this makes good sense. Oh, I forgot one small detail. We will still need the 2600 MW of coal or nat gas or nuclear, because because much of the time the wind is either not blowing or hardly blowing. And the wind blows more at night, when we don’t even need it. It blows less when we need it during those hot, still summer days or during a cold, cold front in the winter. Never mind about the details.

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