From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 19:12:15 MST
Rafal noted:
<<### 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>>
Ok. Converting 9,158,960 square klicks into mental miles = 33% X 9,158,960
or rather kilometers to kilometers.
So we add it 3022456.8, to the 9 mil figure, bringing in into the 12 million
range. 12 Million kilometers, that is. So windfarms would use 1/11th of the
land surface of the US? That's a huge chunk of landspace. You don't suppose
that people would end up filing lawsuits against any company that needed to
use such land for wind power, do you? I am not sure the author I quoted from
on the National Review is correct, but it seems thought provoking.
A lot of the mentality promoting solar power, for example, and declaiming
nuclear fission (perhaps rightly) seems based on propaganda that has choruses
of women singing sweetly, as wide-angle shots of the sun, in a clear morning
sky. This is far less emphasis given to solar research around the world,
which would involve solar cell manufacture techniques, inorganic chemistry
studies, and fuel cell analyses.
One further factoid, is that Mr. Ballard, Ceo of Ballard Engineering in Van
Couver, BC, has come out on record, stating the need for nuclear fission
plants, in order to convert water into hydrogen for his automotive fuel
cells.
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