Comments on: How much does wind power cost? http://windpowergenerators.biz/how-much-does-wind-power-cost.htm Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:59:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: goober http://windpowergenerators.biz/how-much-does-wind-power-cost.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2972 goober Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:11:05 +0000 http://windpowergenerators.biz/how-much-does-wind-power-cost.htm#comment-2972 You need a more reliable source than Yahoo answers as a basis for a paper. You need a more reliable source than Yahoo answers as a basis for a paper.

]]> By: Pork Shank http://windpowergenerators.biz/how-much-does-wind-power-cost.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2971 Pork Shank Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:11:03 +0000 http://windpowergenerators.biz/how-much-does-wind-power-cost.htm#comment-2971 Sug, Playing the "devil's advocate" on these types of issues can be difficult. But your questions is actually pretty straight-forward. If by "proper" you mean a huge commercial, mega-watt generating wind turbine power plant, then the costs for just the engineering and design phases are in the millions of dollars. Each individual unit has to be manufactured using heavy industry and the ancillary costs included in that. Parts have to be shipped to the location and assembled on site. The side costs here include, but aren't limited to, purchase price of land, damage to private property from heavy equipment needed to set up the turbines, and the costs for the man power throughout the process, to include routine maintenance through the life of the turbine, then decommissioning costs after the turbine has reached its service life. If you aren't limited to striking against wind power all together, you may consider the positive position on smaller, residential-scaled wind turbine systems. Costs are lower all around, and there are even DIY kits available for those folks handy with a screwdriver and a wrench. Hope this helps to answer your questions. Sug,
Playing the "devil’s advocate" on these types of issues can be difficult. But your questions is actually pretty straight-forward. If by "proper" you mean a huge commercial, mega-watt generating wind turbine power plant, then the costs for just the engineering and design phases are in the millions of dollars. Each individual unit has to be manufactured using heavy industry and the ancillary costs included in that. Parts have to be shipped to the location and assembled on site. The side costs here include, but aren’t limited to, purchase price of land, damage to private property from heavy equipment needed to set up the turbines, and the costs for the man power throughout the process, to include routine maintenance through the life of the turbine, then decommissioning costs after the turbine has reached its service life.
If you aren’t limited to striking against wind power all together, you may consider the positive position on smaller, residential-scaled wind turbine systems. Costs are lower all around, and there are even DIY kits available for those folks handy with a screwdriver and a wrench.

Hope this helps to answer your questions.

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