[ RadSafe ] Re: radsafe Digest, Vol 22, Issue 3

[John Jacobus]

Just out of curiousity, how many windmills would it
take to power a steel mill?  Or a city of 1 million
people?  Not just their homes.

--- Maury Siskel <maurysis at ev1.net> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
> What on earth is wrong with wind farms? Living in
> Nebraska where we had 
> plenty of wind most of the time was great. In many
> other localities, 
> life would have been much more bearable if there had
> been more wind on 
> high temperature days. It seems likely that if we
> can build farms that 
> will grow more wind, the effort should be undertaken
> post haste if not 
> maybe even right away.
> 
> Think about it! I'll bet that with a little
> ingenuity we could splice 
> different species of young wind plants for some
> fabulous results.  And 
> consider the potential of genetic wind engineering
> to grow winds that 
> are insect resistant and, best of all, a variety of
> temperature 
> variations. Cool wind plants should produce great
> revenue in the 
> southern US during the summer. And the hot humid
> wind plants could be 
> cultivated on some other continents to generate
> tremendous export 
> revenues as well as climate modification in the
> desert interiors of some 
> continents. The potential wealth from hot air plant
> seedlings in public 
> buildings in Washington DC would know no limit and
> could be exported all 
> over the whole world!
> 
> Gosh! All these new industries ... and first
> suggested on Radsafe ... 
> Wow!  Mark, could we start a new business together?
> I'm overwhelmed!
> Cheers,
> Maury&Dog        (Maury Siskel  maurysis at ev1.net)
> 
> =============
> Mark Sonter wrote:
> 
> > "It's time to end the foolishness and start
> building wind farms" ---- 
> > I think that says it all, doesn't it.....
> >
> > It must surely be obvious now to everybody that
> this thread is just a 
> > waste of time and bandwidth.
> >
> > Mark Sonter
> 


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"Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea and never shrinks back to its original proportion." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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