Re: We love wind -- or do we?

["Joan Stovall" <joans@PCEZ.COM>]

Several years ago, I derived equations and ran numbers for wind power.  My

conclusions were that wind power is over-rated as a means of producing

electric power.  The estimated costs were far in excess of what the wind

power advocates claimed.



----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Steven Dapra" <sjd@swcp.com>

To: <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 5:46 PM

Subject: We love wind -- or do we?





> October 14

>

> Although the Natural Resources Defense Council, and its attorney, Robert

> F. Kennedy Jr., support wind power (Kennedy says he's "strongly in favor

of

> wind-energy production at sea,") Kennedy doesn't want a wind farm on

> Nantucket Sound, where his family might see it from their elegant compound

> in Hyannis Port.

>

> Reported in the October 2003 Nuclear News, p. 13.  NN's source is a July

> 25 report by John Stossel on abcnews.com.

>

> Steven Dapra

> sjd@swcp.com

>

>

>

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