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Danish Goal: 50% of Electricity from Wind

Posted by michael on from the american-goal:-100%-of-danish-electricity-from-oil dept.

tres3 writes "The Danes have an ambitious plan of producing 50% of their national electrical needs from wind by 2030. The website has tutorials on everything related to wind energy you can imagine. The index gives you an idea of the detail of the site. It includes land and sea wind turbines as well as details about the machinery needed and where to locate it. There are over 100 pages so I didn't link to them all. [ed. note: thanks] A picture says it all."

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  1. The enviro's will find objections to this by dugless · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's only a matter of time before wind power falls out of favor with environmentalists. Consider how many birds a large wind farm will cut down out of the sky, or the pollution generated by manufacturing and maintaining so many metal armatures and power distribution lines.

    And then there's the issue of where the energy is actually coming from. Given the recent report that airplane contrails might have an effect on global temperature variations, how long will it be before someone speculates that slowing wind down contributes to global warming?

  2. Re:A novel goal. by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Troll

    5.3 million people? Surely that must be a misprint. There are entire cities bigger than that. This is not nearly as large an achievement as the slashdot front page makes it out to be. Is this the same nation that was a model protectorate? I get my tiny European eco-nations mixed up sometimes.

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  3. also been known to kill birds... by fortinbras47 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Wind power generators have also been known to disrupt and kill birds. For example, in the early 1990s, a significant number of golden eagles were killed by turbines at California's Altamont pass.

    Also, in line with Trepidity's comment, the main problem with wind power from what I've heard is that it just requires too many turbines to get the neccesary amount of power. You have to have truly giant wind farms to get a pitiful amount of power...

    And who the hell wants to double their power bill anyway....? (see California for all the hell that breaks loose when power generation prices get real high.)

  4. Re:Obligatory anti-Michael comment by FatRatBastard · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why stop there? Why not just get a gun and shoot Michael? I mean, from your rant it sounds like no one who has a differing view from yourself should be run out of a job. If you don't like his posts here's a suggestion:

    Don't fucking read slashdot.

    Jesus christ on a crutch, since when did the Universe become your personal little fifedom?

    Anyone know EchoMirage's mother's phone number? I want to make a couple of calls to see if I can get her to have a retroactive abortion.

  5. Noise by malarkey · · Score: 0, Troll

    People living near the windmills have complained of the humming noise they produce. Drives them nuts.

  6. Now you know. by DAldredge · · Score: 2, Troll

    Now you know what those who support fission power feel every time the "environmentalists" say something about fission power based on what the tech was in the 1970s and 80s.