Posted by Matt from CT on September 15, 2007 at 11:43:55 from (76.204.149.33):
In Reply to: OT Windmill posted by Dan S (NY) on September 14, 2007 at 08:59:13:
Figure on "state of the art" windmills like they're installing off the coast of England...
300' high a piece.
Connecticut would require 3,000 just to offset our current electric usage. To make a meaningful impact against fossil fuels for heating and transportation, let's say 6,000 and ignore the slight issue of how do you store surplus electricity on that scale for when the winds are too light or too strong.
Now this is is in a state where Cell Phone towers will ignite controversies, and we're all paying 10%+ on our electric bills because the Southwestern part of the state didn't want to see a new transmission line constructed above ground...so all the ratepayers are paying to build a 40 mile long buried transmission line.
Can't put them on the water, either -- State's been suing the Feds & New York to stop various gas pipelines and electrical lines under the sound -- if single point to point projects like that aren't tolerated, can't imagine thousands of towers and the undersea cables to all of them.
Now if cell phone towers, transmission lines, and undersea cables are all evil, I'm kind of curious how the envirowhackos are going to tolerate the windmills they want, too?
We're tearing down hydro dams in the Northwest because of the environmental damage they do, and probably the only reason their safe in my area is people figure the silt behind our dams is full of PCB and other industrial pollutants and it would be worse to release it then restoring natural river flows.
So Wind won't be tolerated, hydro is too big of an environmental impact, coal and oil are evil according the cult of Al Gore. And the left has been the avowed enemy of nuclear since the 1970s...something's gotta give folks because y'all can't have none of them.
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