in the summertime with literally millions of air conditioners going?

Solar isn't going to do it. Wind power cant provide that much. You are scared of nuclear power.

What do you propose we use?

My BF wants to go to school to be a wind turbine tech. I want to find out where these farms are located to see where we would have to move to be closer to where he would work. I can't find a map, or list of wind farm locations, not even on wind power company websites like Vesta.

I only know of the Columbia Gorge wind farm in Oregon. (which is where we are now, and would probably like to stay.) When I google I only seem to find articles pertaining to NIMBY protests.
Thanks alot ACADEMY you obviously didn't read that I already googled this many times....

I know that Germany is the leading nation in prodcucing electricity, etc from Wind energy. But the govt should have passed some laws taht would encourage wind power right? Also, are the ppl taht use wind power given subsidies, etc
Is there smth on the internet where i can find laws and regulation, etc related to this?
Thanks in advance for ur help.

I have been wondering about the wind power, like windmills lately, here's some other things i wondered
Where is one of the largest wind farms in the world? how many wind turbines are on that largest wind farm?
which country generated the mostwind energy? How much did they generate in 2003?
which country generated 686 megawatts of wind enerrgy?
U.S. wind energy can power how many U.S. homes?

If you can't make all of your solar panels in your country, how is that energy independence? If you have to pay China for solar panels, then the sunlight is not yours.

What is the true cost of of solar and wind power per kilowatt hour, not counting subsidies? What energy source will be used when there are cloudy days and no wind, and at night?

Will you in the future be crying about BP and Exxon as "big lithium"?

Pick one :
- Solar Farm
- Nuclear Power
- Wind Power
- Geothermal
and please dont say "all of them" haha

I am a substitute teacher on a limited income and we want to convert to solar and wind power if possible. The home was built in the 1920's. Please only serious answers!

DALLAS — Wind turbines supplying energy to homes and businesses will one day line Texas' 376-mile coastline if the state's Land Office Commissioner has his way.

The turbines will stand about 10 miles offshore, enough to preserve the treasured view but close enough to make coastal wind power an affordable energy alternative still missing in the United States, Commissioner Jerry Patterson (search) said.

Last month, the office announced a deal with a Louisiana contractor to build 50 turbines designed to power about 40,000 homes.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174806,00.html

so a single turbine can power 800 homes?
that is pretty good.

In the name of climate change, the British government has become obsessed by nuclear power as the solution to future electricity generation. And yet, not long ago, nuclear power was unfashionable due to its downsides and, on the news this morning, it was said we are running out of sites to dump the waste and the sources of fuel are limited.

There are more exciting options available, such as micro generation and Combined Heat and Power, which are cheaper and can come on stream faster (I have not included wind power as it is too inefficient).

Why will the politicians not consider further alternatives?
Okay, a secondary thought: are their other considerations than climate change to bear in mind?
We always have passing 'fads' in environmental policies. We could satisfy the global warming debate and then screw up another area for later. Should we not have a wider view of any damage we might cause when choosing an energy policy?

Energy is neither created or destroyed. We take trillions of Watts out of the air currents every day to generate electricity.

What is the environmental impact of reducing the amount of energy in the air streams?

Since this energy moves water around the planet, does removing this energy for electrical generation also remove the ability for the air to move this water?

If the air no longer has the ability to move the air with higher water concentrations to areas with lower water concentrations, this would cause floods and droughts where they wouldn't normally occur.

Are we creating a new problem with wind power? Are we creating 'Global Calming'?

I live in a small community in Missouri and would like to start an solar/wind power business.

I need 2 major uses for Wind Power! Thanks!

Anything that can be used to make heat or electricity without unsustainable fuels and which does not make a net contribution of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. This includes wind power, waves and the tides, solar energy, geothermal energy and biomass. Nuclear power, although it is low-carbon, cannot be counted as a renewable source of energy because its fuel, uranium, is finite.
How does all of that help our future? Thank you.

I need 2 major uses for Solar Radiation and Wind Power!

I can pay extra money each money to my electric company and (supposedly) get my energy from wind power. This supposedly helps save the planet.

Why can't I buy nuclear energy? France gets 80% of their electricity from nuclear power. There is an endless supply and it doesn't give oil money to the terrorists in the middle east.

I need some websites to help me with a physics project on alternative energy, it includes diagrams or pictures or data or graphs or charts and an explanation on each one, they are solar (heating and electricity), Tidal power, Wind power, Wave power, Biomass and Geo Thermal.

I own a buisness that converts home and industries to solar/wind power and I'm working on converting over a city streetlights, red lights and ball park to solar power. Where can I find a funding source that will pay the grant fee for the city?

I am covering solar power, wind power, tidal power and battery powered vehicles. Thanks guys!

I have to write a paper and google isn't really working out for me! So if you could explain to me how wind power works as basic and simple as possible it'd be great! thank you!!

Do you have any ideas on what I could use for a thesis? I want to write something about how if people used solar and wind power, how much of a positive impact it could have on the earth. Any ideas?

1. Study after study shows that wherever wind development was put in place, natural gas demand went up and the environmental benefits were the opposite of what the advocates expected.

“Cycling” coal plants to accommodate wind generation makes the plants operate inefficiently, which drives up emissions. Moreover, when they are not operated consistently at their designed temperatures, the variability causes problems with the way they interact with their associated emission control technologies, frequently causing erratic emission behavior that can last for several hours before control is regained. Ironically, using wind to a degree that forces utilities to temporarily reduce their coal generation results in greater SO2, NOX and CO2 than would have occurred if less wind energy was generated and coal generation was not impacted.”

2. There is a huge disparity between installed capacity and actual output into the system. In many cases the actual output in the system is less than 20% and in some cases even far less.

There are other unsavory facts that are included in these graphics such as the area required by a wind farm compared to, e.g., nuclear power plant. The Roscoe wind farm in Texas occupies 100,000 acres for a bit less than 800 MW of installed capacity; the Palo Verde nuclear power plant in Arizona occupies 4,050 acres (4 percent of the Texas wind farm) but has a 500 percent larger power capacity (almost 4,000 MW.)

Even more obscene are the government subsidies that go into wind power. For an energy source that barely exceeds one percent of energy output, wind subsidies are per megawatt hour, about 60 times of the {content}.44 per megawatt hour that go to the mainstay of US electrical power output, coal and 100 times the {content}.25 per megawatt hour that go to natural gas, the two sources that account for over 70 percent of US power supply. Way to go for social engineering.

http://www.energytribune.com//articles.cfm/5623/Wind-Energy-The-Truth-Blows

http://library.thinkquest.org/20331/types/wind/problems.html

http://www.wind-power-problems.org/

http://www.mensetmanus.net/windpower/cato/probwind.shtml

I'm looking for a little debate with someone about it.

I know the state of Florida is 33% on wind power, (I know. I'm shocked too and I'm a Floridian)

When I was in Arizona, there was a whole field where huge solar panals collected sun energy. Why arent more ideas like that being used? Think of all the southern states that recieve plenty of sunshine for solar energy. Think of all the mountainous areas and flats that would be great for wind power. Why should money be an issue when it would more than pay for itself in the long run?

some energy sources could be nuclear(most promising in my opinion), wind power, solar, and others.