Your big 80MW- class turbine blades are carbon composite and fiberglass. They don't fall off...correction. Never heard of any falling off ever, and there's many thousands out there.
"electrifying the ground in stiff wind." - Again, what are you basing that on?
The simpler solution to blade heating, some firms have found, is just to paint the blades black. Of course, that makes the turbines much more visible (and in my opinion, uglier.) But wing anti-icing technology is a pretty mature tech, and I bet you see it in more machines moving forward.
Come on, now. Old "facts" that seem very appealingly counter-PC, but they don't hold up.
1. Solar photovoltaic energy payback - Nope, afraid the facts don't back you up. Old meme advanced by conventional energy interests in the 70s. This study has been held up very well by the recent production survey data.
2. Solar photovoltaic toxic waste - well, it is after all a wafer of n and p - type doped silicon with conductors etched into it, and that's not like any other manufacturing we do....oh....nevermind.
3. Solar thermal plants (based on SEGS I - IV and the Boeing Rocketdyne Solar Two / Solar Tres plants) have a typical Rankine cycle thermodynamic efficiency for their temps. The difference between them and a coal plant's thermal / electric efficiency is that one runs on free fuel. (Though construction as of now is quite pricey, it's pure inexperience - these things are not that complicated. After all, there's 354 MW (yes, that's megawatts) worth powering California.
4. Windmills need to be seperated by about 2 rotor diameters left - to - right and 1.5 RD in between rows. A megawatt- class turbine has a ca. 80 - 100 M rotor and powers ca. 400 (US) homes. Not a crippling amount of space by any means....look at turbine penetration rates in Denmark, for instance.
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Your big 80MW- class turbine blades are carbon composite and fiberglass. They don't fall off...correction. Never heard of any falling off ever, and there's many thousands out there.
"electrifying the ground in stiff wind." - Again, what are you basing that on?
The simpler solution to blade heating, some firms have found, is just to paint the blades black. Of course, that makes the turbines much more visible (and in my opinion, uglier.) But wing anti-icing technology is a pretty mature tech, and I bet you see it in more machines moving forward.
Come on, now. Old "facts" that seem very appealingly counter-PC, but they don't hold up.
1. Solar photovoltaic energy payback - Nope, afraid the facts don't back you up. Old meme advanced by conventional energy interests in the 70s. This study has been held up very well by the recent production survey data.
2. Solar photovoltaic toxic waste - well, it is after all a wafer of n and p - type doped silicon with conductors etched into it, and that's not like any other manufacturing we do....oh....nevermind.
3. Solar thermal plants (based on SEGS I - IV and the Boeing Rocketdyne Solar Two / Solar Tres plants) have a typical Rankine cycle thermodynamic efficiency for their temps. The difference between them and a coal plant's thermal / electric efficiency is that one runs on free fuel. (Though construction as of now is quite pricey, it's pure inexperience - these things are not that complicated. After all, there's 354 MW (yes, that's megawatts) worth powering California.
4. Windmills need to be seperated by about 2 rotor diameters left - to - right and 1.5 RD in between rows. A megawatt- class turbine has a ca. 80 - 100 M rotor and powers ca. 400 (US) homes. Not a crippling amount of space by any means....look at turbine penetration rates in Denmark, for instance.