Big step forward for Clean Energy US

$600 million
600 jobs
60,000 homes

That's 666... the mark of the beast! Another conspiracy!

 

Now, this interests me. I'm curious how much the owners of these 60,000 homes pay. I would hope it's far cheaper than current utility rates. Will the big utility/energy companies crush them or buy them out and we won't see any savings anyway. I'm all for clean energy too and using wind for energy should be really cheap. You would just have to pay for initial construction, engineer costs and maintenance, right? Anyone know how this works?

 

Probably more expensive until more people jump on board with it. Great way to go long-term though. The more popular it gets, the more the costs should get driven down. Supply / Demand. I think PeaJay might have some insight to this, we've discussed similar topics before.

 

i think that this is usually a rough estimate of how effective the turbines will be...up in upstate NY there are a bunch of these and, i might be way off, but i believe the power just goes in to the general grid, and distributed with all the other power that is manufactured (and more or less sucked up by nyc)

anyway, if every home in that area is connected to a central power supplier, the energy that is produced by the turbines get sent there (and recorded) before it is sent back out to homes...so everyone connected to the supplier in that area will get 1/1,000,000,000 of their power from these turbines

 

There are different ways the energy is sold. Some companies just sell the energy to whoever owns the grid... some compete and sell directly to the homeowner.

For the past several years I've been working with a company that uses a high percentage of clean energy out of the total energy I use, but sometimes I actually pay a HIGHER rate than JSP&L... sometimes lower... because the rate of the clean energy goes up and down.

 

It's not a totally good step. Not in the sense of our species, once again, proving the desire & the ability to co-exist with other species.

Nope. It's all about gotta make more energy for the humans who are sucking the planet dry of everything.

The level of bird kills at these wind farms is astronomical. As in hundreds of thousands of creatures. They hit those spinning blades & are done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwVz5hdAMGU

Say 'adios' to your raptors. Golden Eagles, Red-Tailed Hawks, all of those guys. And say hello to humans once again destroying the natural order of the planet just to serve human greed for more, more, more.

Follow the money: you can bet that someone is making huge bank on this desecration of the planet.

Why can't the human race find something that gets the job done without effing up the species of the planet more & more & more?

 

LB do they itemize the cost (i.e. clean versus other)? The fluctuations may be more attributed to Nat Gas and/or rude prices. You may be Nuclear Powered too huh?

This wind farm will be about 25 miles from my house. Near by, there is a massive solar field already up and running. Seems NE NC is embracing the clean movement...or atleast testing it.

 

You bring up some good points. Surely there are ways to better the process so that it's not as destructive to the bird population. How? IDK, not my job to figure that out, but i'm sure someone somewhere is working on this as we speak. If we as a Nation can become less dependent on oil / fossil fuels, the better off we'll be as a nation.

 

Instead of windmills, maybe underwater turbines with screens around them allowing water passage, but not our piscine friends. Tides and currents are hell of a energy producing forces.

 

Yeah, baby!!!!!! Where da white women at??

 

fusion power. the only real alternative

 

This is key.

 

Yep, another good option. I'm open to all of them if done correctly.

 

Me too - - if done correctly. Critical.

 

Yank you got a good point, I was just skating and got to see my neighborhood hawk scarfing a squirell; sucks to think he'll get pulverized.

Toxins in the Ocean
Blenders in the Sky
Yankee's gotta ask,
Why why why?

 

Ahhhh, I ain't no pundit nor predictor, and I ain't got an agenda; so much stuff homo sapien does that is just utterly crazy from a species aspect; all I know is that if we continue to fukkk the planet as mightily as we are doing, it's just all done.

 

I drove by some recently and all of them (around 50) were shutdown, yes there was wind. Was told they were producing so much energy they need to be shutdown often. Sound like bs?

 

The tech already exists to build efficient wind turbines that do not harm birds. From New Jersey's own Sigma Design Company...

http://www.nawindpower.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.10336

 

Sounds like your USA guvment in action again.

Just like them paying American farmers not to grow crops. Your tax dollars at work.