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World Wind Power Climbs to New Record in 2011

Posted March 14, 2012 11:39 AM

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With its long list of attractive attributes "widespread and abundant, quick to scale, climate-benign, and zero fuel cost "wind power is driving the transition to a new energy economy.

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03/14/2012 2:53 PM

Wow, wind power has really taken off...10 years ago this was just a dream...in 20 years this technology could be supplying a significant portion of our energy needs...These figures from 2008, have nearly doubled for wind energy production putting it at around 2%....

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03/15/2012 7:36 AM

No P-taking there, then....

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03/15/2012 12:17 AM

I have a dream... that one day wind generators proponents will start using the correct units ie kWh (kiloWatt hours) or Joule, units of energy, not kW a unit of power.

Most wind generators produce power for about 25% of the time, which makes their figures a bit less glowing.

Then they need to add in all the actual running costs (land rental, line rental, maintenance, etc) because wind power is not free.

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03/15/2012 8:26 AM

There is a similar effect in hydro, when you compare

3 Gorges (22.5 GW - 84.4 TWh /year)

Itaipu (14 GW - 94.7 TWh / year).

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03/16/2012 2:25 PM

currently, I understand that looking past some of the initial numbers. Wind power is not self sustaining. Atleast mnott as of yet.

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