how is wind energy good for illlinois?
Saturday, September 26th, 2009 at
11:59 pm
can someone give me a site that has like quotes that will tell you that wind energy is good for IL. And if you have quotes tell me what sites you got the info from. I want the info from reliable sources like American Wind Energy Assocaition(AWEA) and U.S Department of Energy
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Here are a few links I found the last one says Illinois has the potential of 9000 mw of potential wind power. Since wind is a clean and renewable source it should be great for Illinois and it’s air quality.
it isn’t. it is all a lie, don’t believe it.
You have constrained the answer to be positive. While Illinois has wind resources ( e.g. wind ), wind energy requires big upfront costs and lots of space and is presently not economically competitive if one considers the capital costs and the delay between the time of construction and the start of useful service. Also, even more capital investment has to be made in transmission lines to bring the generated electricity from where the wind is greatest to where the energy is needed. Wind energy suffers from the fact that the wind doesn’t always blow and when it does is uncorrelated with maximum electricity demand.
It is not especially good for Illinois since the state is still a major coal producer. Illinois coal has high BTU capacity ( good ) but high sulfur content ( bad ). However, if all coal-fired plants have to use scrubbers because of tighter pollution requirements that will affect even plants using Powder Basin coal, Illinois coal will experience even more of a resurgence ( assuming Obama doesn’t mandate the extinction of the industry in America; even then, coal exports to China and India will likely continue. )
Wind energy is a wonderful thing.. The only problem is we don’t have the technology to store it for vary long.
Well if you folks in Illinois can harness all that hot air your politicians blow, we could solve America’s Energy Crisis