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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:16 PM Original message |
U.S. wind report blows away records |
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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
1. Some great news! Thank you and rec'd! nt |
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AnOhioan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
2. Great news....keeping it kicked and rec'd |
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prostomulgus (188 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
3. Great news for the big energy corporations. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:35 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Actually, it's great news for the birds! |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Very interesting. Thanks. |
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Celefin (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 08:02 AM Response to Reply #3 |
29. Birds and windpower (some science) |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
6. Terrible news, but it makes a lot of people happy. |
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kimmylavin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Okay, but... |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 01:13 AM Response to Reply #8 |
20. No doubt. We need to do that. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 03:19 AM Response to Reply #20 |
26. No, we don't "burn the same amount of fossil fuels whether we have the windmills or not" |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 12:09 PM Response to Reply #8 |
36. No energy source will ever reduce our need for oil. |
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kimmylavin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 03:30 PM Response to Reply #36 |
38. Okay, then 50% reduction. |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:08 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. lol there we go. |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 01:13 AM Response to Reply #9 |
21. Happy to oblige. |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:16 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. If we want to continue to use electricity, sacrifices have to be made. |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 01:16 AM Response to Reply #10 |
22. Me too. Coal has to go. |
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diane in sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. bullshit, again |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 01:16 AM Response to Reply #11 |
23. Thank you for your kind opinion. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:25 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Explode the lungs of bats? |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 01:10 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Presumably, they create low pressures that bats lungs can't take. |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. What a load of bull. |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 01:28 AM Response to Reply #16 |
24. Wow! Unadulterated wind industry propaganda. A rare treat. LOL. |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 07:58 AM Response to Reply #24 |
28. You don't understand 'spinning reserves' at all |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 01:32 PM Response to Reply #24 |
32. Blight? Those look like they're in the middle of nowhere |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 12:13 PM Response to Reply #24 |
37. As a matter of fact, they are quite beautiful |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:34 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. Please explain where we should get our electricity from... |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 01:31 AM Response to Reply #18 |
25. No. I am not a Luddite. |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 03:24 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Here's what we do. |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:02 PM Response to Original message |
7. What a pleasant surprise! |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
12. Or 2 ap1000 reactors.. (2) |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:20 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Would you please stop asking such inconvenient questions? |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 10:55 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Nuclear Bombshell: $26 Billion cost — $10,800 per kilowatt! — killed Ontario nuclear bid |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 02:20 PM Response to Reply #15 |
33. Like 26 billion? And they work on calm days..You think china paid that? |
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bananas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 10:33 AM Response to Reply #33 |
35. China hasn't paid yet - just like Finland |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-16-09 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
17. Put some turbines near the Sotomayor hearings... lots of wind generation there |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 08:06 AM Response to Original message |
30. Put up some more here around Fargo. Plenty of wind around here! |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 08:47 AM Response to Original message |
31. Unfortunately, wind is still only supplying one third of one percent of US energy consumption. |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-17-09 03:25 PM Response to Original message |
34. awesome! |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-18-09 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
39. oh i thought the thread would be about the 2 burritos i ate last night |
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