From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 19:33:34 MST
Rafal wrote:
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>>### 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.
A million square miles would be over a quarter of
the total land area in the U.S. The entire world's
energy needs shouldn't demand that much power.
Rafal, Did you goof the units?
We have some good windfarms near here. I need to
get estimates of output vs land used. Then we hafta
figure a way to get the greens to stop worrying that
we are swatting birds all over the place.
Someone mentioned that hydrogen power would be limited
by water availability. Nay I disagree, for we waste
unimaginable quantities of water by letting it flow
uselessly into the sea. But the extropians already
know that this issue is one I have been choking on
for years.
Using wind power to create electricity for most of
our power needs and creating hydrogen with some
fraction of the wind energy is a viable option for
our future power needs. Of course it would be
capital intensive, but we have capital.
spike
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