this is on top of already being the #1 producers of wind power in the country. the new bill will supply another 4 million peoples homes with renewable energy. Between this, natural gas, and American oil drilling why is it so hard to get off foriegn dependency. Why is this not being done in every state.
They wind energy can be harnessed and store, but all states have some kind of resource, naturalgas for example, California can and does produce wind energy, but doesn’t to the capasity they should
the new wind(Mills) use turbines instead of generators, where the commpressed air is sent underground and stored for later
in Texas they are as we speak drilling for natural gas in our neighborhoods, and paying us to lease our mineral rights, you can’t,see, hear, or smell it, so it’s not an imposition
actually wind farms are quite a spectacular sight
I don’t know why people are thumbs uping LLD he is dead wrong, we are not talking about the old wind mills from the old west, these are very high tech and huge
wind turbines are about 350-400 ft. tall where the wind is blowing much faster than near the ground
I also mentioned drilling oil, and gas, I know Texas can get around the law’s easier, but these are stupid law’s that are only hurting us
Originally posted 2009-04-06 13:40:46.
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Because Texas has the land for it.
Because they wind doesn’t blow with the same velocity in each state. Google wind corridors.
PS How will you generate energy on a calm day, and how much energy will you exhaust in building the towers? Suppose the wind blows only at night and during comfortable temps. Where are you going to store the wind generated energy?
Wrong – wind generated energy cannot be stored.
Because Texas is the Best….State…Ever!
And it’s so hard to get off foreign oil because it gives Government another excuse to try and control us, getting us all worried about an energy crisis
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I remember when they tried to get wind power going in Mass., but ol’ Ted Partial Birth Kennedy stopped it, because the facilities would be too close to his gargantuan estate, and he couldn’t have that.
Texas is uniquely suited for developing wind energy, because of the high winds in the panhandle area, and because of its unique electricity regulatory status, which makes it easier to grant construction permits for plants and for transmission lines.
Although wind is cheaper (and abundant, even in places other than Texas), it is still pricey to build wind turbines, and, especially, to build the transmission capacity to get the power from where it’s windy to where people live, which isn’t always the same place.
But, you are right, we could get off foreign dependency. But for electricity generation, most of our power comes from coal, which is produced domestically. Foreign oil goes mostly towards gasoline for cars, trucks, and planes; very little of it goes for electricity. Thus, wind power isn’t really helping the energy dependence problem, though it’s helping the climate change problem.