Re: Hydrogen as SCAM?

From: EvMick@aol.com
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 13:37:07 MST

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    In a message dated 01/31/2003 10:58:10 AM Central Standard Time,
    Spudboy100@aol.com writes:

    > <<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.

    This is misleading.

    True....wind farms can take up vast areas. However...think of a wind farm as
    analogous to a multi-canopy jungle. For example...the King Mountain Wind
    Ranch in West Texas. One canopy (or tier) might be the wind
    turbines....which extract energy from several hundred feet above the plateau.
     At ground level is the cattle ranch which continues unchanged...unaffected
    by the metal towers....the cattle just wander between them...unimpressed (In
    Kansas and Iowa the farmers steer their tractors around them....they ARE
    impressed however...by the lease revenues....which in some cases DOUBLES
    their per/acre income. And finally there is the subterranean income....the
    King Mountain wind ranch also has it's own oil and gas production.

    So we have three levels....none interfering with the other....all generating
    revenue for the land owner.

    Not bad for what was once considered useless desert

    This cannot be said for a conventional power plant.....Like the one near Gila
    Bend Arizona. Or of a nuke like the one near tonopah Az. All that acerage
    is of exclusive use.

    EvMick



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