for better and worse, it will be the basis for any policy discussion on windpower in the US. Thus, if anyone here wants to really discuss the issue, i think it's important to be familiar with the details.
for example, it's unclear to me that a 15% increase in capacity factor is achievable, though if it comes to pass i'll be a happy camper. it just means that probably 7% more turbines must be built, which means more jobs.
One must also remember that amurka lags behind northern Europe in turbine performance now by some 5%, meaning that Yurp machines harness some 5% more energy from the available winds. this is mostly due to infrastructure issues such as lack of trained service techs, which will be solved over time.
Karmically, amurkan winds are also more turbulent, both literally and figuratively (boom and bust tax cycles.) We'll see what kind of strategic calming the Obama team brings.
Meanwhile, there remain some real issues here in Yurp, let's not forget. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
We'll see what kind of strategic calming the Obama team brings.
Can Obama calm the winds as well as walk on water?
Or do to you mean that at a certain concentration of wind turbines wind turbulence is smoothed by having excess/peak energy differentially extracted from the air flow?
(I'm sure you could have sold Bush (and the climate change deniers) the notion of building huge wind farms to reduce the incidence of hurricanes and twisters) notes from no w here
i'm not certain if st. obama can calm the winds and walk on water at the same time. hell, he still doesn't have a dog to wag. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
8-)# I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
(Yes, a politician actually did say that. Forgot who and where, though...)
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
However, I think you can run some distance in front of the tide, to speed earth up again. The trick is more to be in the right position to the moon, than to run ultra fast. Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den MenschenVolker Pispers
Or do you want to discuss this with the two Hopi brothers who control poles and rotation? "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
I didn't want to quibble with YOU, but yes, with regard to the question if despite conservation of angular momentum (for sure on the scale that matters) it is possible to change the speed of the rotation by moving around on earth and how. If I wouldn't care for irrelevant stuff, I would have the wrong job. Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den MenschenVolker Pispers
