The costs of wind power are huge. Texas is just now learning it. The generation costs are low but because the source is hundreds of miles from where the majority of people live, the costs to build transmission infrastructure is huge. Texas may have deregulated generation allowing many people to play in the game, but the transmission costs will be born by all Texans. Wind power companies can't compete financially if THEY have to pay for the infrastructure required of their remote location. And as a side note, people don't want wind mills in their back yard anymore than they want drilling rigs and pumps.
Just for fun, I checked the numbers for 100,000,000,000 of my friends, and then called them to tell them the results. What's that you say? I owe $100,000,000,000,000? Oh what a fool I am.
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An earlier post mentioned Indian Pumps, which is what you're probably talking about. I used them at Scout camp as well in the mid-seventies. I saw new ones last year at Philmont.
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The costs of wind power are huge. Texas is just now learning it. The generation costs are low but because the source is hundreds of miles from where the majority of people live, the costs to build transmission infrastructure is huge. Texas may have deregulated generation allowing many people to play in the game, but the transmission costs will be born by all Texans. Wind power companies can't compete financially if THEY have to pay for the infrastructure required of their remote location. And as a side note, people don't want wind mills in their back yard anymore than they want drilling rigs and pumps.
Just for fun, I checked the numbers for 100,000,000,000 of my friends, and then called them to tell them the results. What's that you say? I owe $100,000,000,000,000? Oh what a fool I am.
An earlier post mentioned Indian Pumps, which is what you're probably talking about. I used them at Scout camp as well in the mid-seventies. I saw new ones last year at Philmont.