From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 15:40:43 MST
Spudboy quoted:
<<Moreover, wind farms are incredibly land intensive. Three newly proposed
wind farms in West Virginia would occupy 30 to 40 square miles but would
produce slightly less electricity than a new 265 MW gas-fired combined-cycle
generating plant, which would occupy a few acres. Sallie Baliunas at the
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, estimates, using very
conservative assumptions, that producing enough hydrogen with wind power to
replace just one-third of the vehicles on the road today would require
210,000 square miles. In reality, that number would likely be much higher.>>
### The total land area of the US is 9,158,960 sq km. It would be easy to
use a million square miles for windfarms.
Rafal
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