Re: We love wind -- or do we?

["High Plains Drifter" <magna1@jps.net>]

Do the math and physics.........if it takes more energy from fossil plants

than is ever produced over the life of a alternative electrical generating

system  (designing, fabricating parts, shipping of components, site

construct, generator installation, life time maintenance activities, and

disposal of the decommissioned system), where is the benefit?  Since wind

farms are in areas with very low population density there is very little

positive impact on the health of people living near the fossil plants that

provided the energy.  Plus, they are an eye sore and kill birds by the

hundreds.



Dean Chaney





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

From: "Joan Stovall" <joans@PCEZ.COM>

To: "Steven Dapra" <sjd@swcp.com>; <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 8:35 PM

Subject: Re: We love wind -- or do we?





> 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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