Whoops! Micro-Wind Turbines May Increase CO2
Installing electricity-generating home wind turbans -- also called "micro-wind turbines" -- is all the rage among yuppies who want the neighbors to know how eco-friendly they are. But now the UK's Building Research Establishment Trust says "turbines are likely to add to, not subtract from, a home's CARBON FOOTPRINT." The reason is that the turbines harm the environment in their construction and maintenance, a harm that can't be paid back in energy generation in urban areas.
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Doomed, doomed I say!
but adding up all the wind propellers purported damage vs. a nuclear power plant, or coal burning lakeside power plant, i think the wind props are a "very good thing."
Free power=more usage. Its a catch 22 from the get-go.
I don't think you guys are understanding. Think of it like a battery, you put 100 power units into making it. The problem is that the battery only gives out 87 power units before it breaks. And by the way you have to keep topping it off whenever it breaks so when all's said and done you may have put in 150 power units. That's like offering to pay a guy $100 today so he can pay you $87 over the next decade. The only benefit to buying into wind power is that it increases the funds available for R&D so we may be able to break even some time in the future, but I'd rather send those funds into fusion plants (with huge payoffs) or solar (which may only get marginal payoffs at the residential level). Free power doesn't exist.
dont all of you forget that all the solar pv panels that are installed in the world will never give back the energy they consumed durring manufacturing, so if some small wind turbines does the same to, its not the big deal.
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This is absurd! Are we assuming that it takes more energy and resources to build and maintain a wind turbine than a coal or nuclear plant per KwH?
How ridiculous. It takes at least as much at to build and run other plants and then they burn fuel on top of the manufacturing process. Whoever is saying that you put in 100 power units to get 87 must be out of their damn mind. Why is wind energy approacing a 100 billion dollar a year industry. And don't say because it is subsidized because many countries do not subsidize it and in the US some states subsidize coal power more than wind power. YES, there is no free power but wind power has a much lower LCOE and anyone who says it has a bigger carbon footprint than other forms has some other agenda.
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Gimme a break. Creating a pencil affects the so-called carbon footprint. If you are truly concerned about reducing the global footprint, then focus on zero population growth. Less humans on the planet will give the best result. And I'm not supporting killing, just stop having 3+ kids per family.
hm I want a home wind thing because it could look cool. Idk, I don't want people thinking I'm Eco friendly. j/k but it's kinda gay what a loaded subject it is. Perhaps if I make one myself I can hit an optimization of design, function, and something aesthetically pleasing.
It isn't reliable though.
What in the world is wrong with having several kids? That's not environmentally friendly not to have kids. That's like saying Hitler could have sterilized the Jews and then he wouldn't have committed a Holocaust, just a civil injustice.
Insanity. Limiting growth isn't a reason to be irresponsible.
BESIDES, Intelligent people are the only humans who would even consider limiting how many children we have. I'm calling you intelligent, yes. Intelligent people rarely come up with flawless ideas though. If we stop having kids though, then we are really doomed, rednecks, gangstas, and hippies would be running congress... oh crap maybe we already lost.
If anything, intelligent people need to breed with other intelligent people and have lots of children. I'm confident that a population on Earth even ten times larger would manage to survive if the average intelligence was significantly higher.
Let me state this, It is possible to build machines that can remove carbon from the air.
It is also possible to harness fusion. A company is producing a new fusion reactor attempt right now. R&D NEEDS TO GO HERE NOT TO WIND.
Solar satellites are possible but require global cooperation.. hehehe what a joke.
Wind is a dead end, If we could harness all of the wind we need then we would change weather so bad that it could cause global weather issues.
Fusion is perfect. It's amazing and we need public support of R&D for it. It dwarfs all other fuel source in terms of it's potential and it is not impossible, they are makign improvements on it every day. But R&D is slow because TV isn't telling people to like it yet.
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