"denny" wrote in message
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Topic: WIND ?POWERED ?GENERATORS.


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I checked out the price of the wind powered generators. It
seemed to demonstrate my principle that "Only the wealthy can afford
free energy". What is the cost per kilowatt hour? Where can I see
one cranking out the kilowatts, day in, day out. Are energy storage
devices included for light wind days? I wonder if the windmill
builders of many years ago had the ability to build the large two or
three bladed composite blade wind turbines we see today, or were they
stuck with what they could build at the time.
I happen to own a 1/4 share in a farm in northern Iowa. I'm not
paying to put up a multiblade windmill; power companies are offering
to pay my familiy to put wind turbines on our property. Depending on
the circumstances, they might pay us more than the cost of one of the
wind powered generators just to put them up, plus a percentage of the
power sales. That said, I wonder who would win out (besides the
taxpayers) if all tax subsidies, tax breaks, etc. were taken away from
every company involved in energy production. Check out the physics
and the economics. He is right about solar water heating vs. solar
electricity, though. I thank the taxpayers for subsidizing my solar
water heater and pool heater when I lived in Arizona. Solar electric
panels would never have done the job.

Now can we get back to airplanes?

Denny

Well, I guess so...

But thank you for a rare and refreshing look at the real economics of wind
power (which does a good and economical job of lifting water from below
ground to an above ground storage tank) and solar power (which does a great
job of auxilliary or suplemental heating). It reminded me of the "HHO"
hydrogen electrolysis systems for automobiles--which appear to cost about
200 dollars (if you assemble and install one yourself), waste a couple of
hundred dollars worth of gasolene over their lives, and supposedly qualify
for a $2000 tax credit because the generated hydrogen is an "alternative"
fuel.

Peter
(Grrrrr)