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Colorado Wind Power Company to Compete With Fossil Fuel Prices

Posted September 14, 2011 2:41 PM

From TreeHugger:

Boulder Wind Power has come up with a turbine design that it says can produce electricity at or below $0.04 per kilowatt-hour, allowing it to compete directly with fossil fuel-based power.

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09/15/2011 12:13 AM

Really?

Leaving out dysprosium and reducing the weight of the alternator allows the price of wind power to be reduced by 90%. I must rush out and buy some shares in that company.

Everyone else designing wind turbines must be really stupid or else it's not true.

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09/16/2011 1:57 AM

A bunch of hucksters trying for a quick buck - or a bunch of backyard mechanics that have no idea of the science involved.
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09/16/2011 1:52 AM

I wonder what the draw back is to self-excitation? This would eliminate the need for the permanent magnet.

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09/16/2011 3:44 PM

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"The design uses not only less structural steel,......"

OK, well, I think I'll stand waayyyy, WAAYYYYY over here.......
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09/18/2011 11:59 PM

Need to calculate some events?

these are different locations. Cheers

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09/20/2011 11:28 PM

Is that the "Worst Case Scenario?"

How does that compare to the "Worst Case Scenario" of other power production methods?

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The pictures show mostly total loss generators. For comparisons we'll need also facts from "other" producers. I just wanted to show that also wind turbines are not fool proof.

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