Wind Turbine Base Jumping--INSANE!
T. Boone Pickens would have a field day with these wild wind turbine base-jumping bandits. This video is insane! Base-jumping off the blade of a giant wind turbine . . . jeeez.
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Greenwash for coal gasification, privatization of water resources (see http://www.tpj.org/watchyourassets/pickens/index.html) and ongoing monopolization of traditional power generating capacity.
You people trust this guy to act on behalf of the public good, rather than his own private profit and personal power?
Yeh, right.
what a crock of fear mongering FUD that article was. 20 GW of wind was installed last years, up 30% from the previous years. at that rate of growth we can be installing over 100GW of wind per year in 6 years. That's average gw not peak. and that's a 1.4$ per installed average watt. So the cost is around 1 trillion dollars to generate enough electricity to replace coal nukes and 90% car oil fuel use, assuming plug in hybrids.
In the ten years we spend converting to wind and solar, we will continue to use existing generators as needed. As we completely phase out slow to change output nukes and coal, we can continue to use natural gas turbines which are cheap and quick on off. It's what the electric companies use now to ":top" high demand. Since methane is 20x the greenhouse gas that co2 is, we should burn up the big deposits of it.
Eventually more hydrogen storage will be used for leveling winds output.
Note, even Nuke plants have to be shut down 39 days every 17 months for refueling.
Pickens wants to make money. We may not like him but his entrepreneur and daring. These are the people that have shaped America like Ford.
His putting his money where the future of energy is at and that I think is a good thing. His thumbprint serves as a valid point that we can and should get off of oil. Its a finite source of energy that will one day run out. So I think its a good thing.
He's also appropriating all the water in Texas and privatizing it:
http://www.tpj.org/watchyourassets/pickens/index.html
So it doesn't exactly warm the cockles of my heart that he's making moves to monopolize the wind as well.
The public sector should be developing wind power and water resources for the public good, not for private profit.
Can it be done? Of course, it can be done. The question is, will it be done.
How much will it cost? A lot. However, it will cost even more if we don't do it.
Actually it's, Can it be Done? Yes. Unless you ask a republican and they will give you a million reasons why it can't be done. The can't do spirit of America.
All of this talk means nothing with the "not in my back yard" attitude when it comes to wind mills. Ask the Kennedy's all about it. I, for one, am all for a comprimise on both sides to get us to energy independence.
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