Wind mills are dumb. Build a damn nuke plant and get on with it.
That may be a while Larry. I could be wrong, but I think the nuclear companies applied for $122 billion in loans and was only granted $18.5 billion in loan guarantees for their projects about a month or two ago. I think the DOE came out with a decision at that time to only federal back the loans of 3 or 4 plants total (expansion of Calvert Cliffs (Constellation) being one of them).
Wind mills are dumb. Build a damn nuke plant and get on with it.
Ok, so I'm seeing a pattern here..... you really don't like nuc-u-ler power, do ya?
That may be a while Larry. I could be wrong, but I think the nuclear companies applied for $122 billion in loans and was only granted $18.5 billion in loan guarantees for their projects about a month or two ago. I think the DOE came out with a decision at that time to only federal back the loans of 3 or 4 plants total (expansion of Calvert Cliffs (Constellation) being one of them).
Right but, Bush, Obama, the next person, we NEED to make nukes a priority and now!!!
(CNN) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday approved the nation's first offshore wind farm, signing off on a project that has split Cape Cod over the last nine years.
The 130 turbines are to be located several miles from the Massachusetts shore in the iconic waters of Nantucket Sound.
5 - 10 years they will be towering rusting eyesores in the Nantucket Sound. Hope they name it after Kennedy too.. sounds fitting.
I wouldn't doubt the cost for maintenance/upkeep will take a fair portion of the profits. It's tough enough to replace a blade or bearing on a windmill on land, now try that on water. Specially designed boats to carry and hoist, hazardous duty pay, etc....
Wind power is a great idea. It just isn't cost effective.
That may be a while Larry. I could be wrong, but I think the nuclear companies applied for $122 billion in loans and was only granted $18.5 billion in loan guarantees for their projects about a month or two ago. I think the DOE came out with a decision at that time to only federal back the loans of 3 or 4 plants total (expansion of Calvert Cliffs (Constellation) being one of them).
I don't think these wind farms realize profits for something like the first ten years. But then they say "After the initial set-up, it's FREE energy." Yep, that's right, you heard it here first. Those wind turbines are sooo well engineered and built they NEVER need maintenance or repairs for the rest of all time and eternity it will be 100% FREE energy, even if these monolithic metal strucures are built in saltwater!
Hell, by the time they make it to the break even point, I bet you most of them will be gone, or just more junk out in the ocean for someone to run into.
A 10 year old, 10 mpg rust bucket pick up truck is better, by far, for the planet than a brand new, 50 mpg hybrid.
The steel in the truck was long ago manufactured along with the plastic. Its environmental impact is pretty much over except for new belts, hoses, oil changes and fuel, all things the new hybrid needs PLUS the impact of the new metal, new plastic and the manufacture of the batteries not to mention their replacement and disposal.
If Cash for Clunkers was about the environment, and it wasn't, it would have been incentivized to get us to buy USED cars.