Their has recently, within the past 3 months, been a growing controversy around windmills being erected by a company called Gamesa.
The main argument that has been brought up was against the roadways that would be needed to haul in the near 500 foot windmills. They are going to be placed atop of a mountain near my house. They are afraid the roads will destroy the streams and creeks.
But, when I pressed deeper into the subject I found that the one who had started to anti-gamesa campain was angered because the property owners with the windmills being put on them where going to recieve $3,000 per windmill and a monthly paycheck. Which I see no reason that that is unreasonable.
Around here strip mines are very common, they clearcut the forrest and dig for coal, they have a far worse impact than roads would make, which is evident from Dark Shade creek, I can't remember the actual waste from it but in a year its well over 1,000,000 lbs of sulfer. If these people are so concerned with the environment then why wouldn't they help by spending a little bit of money on limestone dosing, which cleans up the creeks.
The windmills that are to be build will in all generate 400 megawatts of power, enough to power 135,000 houses.
A similar coal plant that generates 400 megawatts of power produces 2 tons of Uranium with 30 pounds of Uranium 235, and nearl 5.5 tons of thorium.
Other specs of the windmills
Total height 480 feet to tip of blade
tip of generator, 350 feet
each blade is 140 feet long
base diameter 52 feet
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well personally myself i do like renewable sources of power such as windmills or dams....but i think the best solution to help save the planet is shut down every coal plant and mine...and switch to nuclear power...now nuclear plants produce waste but not nearly as much as coal and it doesnt effect our planet cause of the way they store it...and uranium produces millions of times more energy per ton than coal
I think your plan would be a good temporary plan, but I think in the long run we need to switch to renewable sources. I'm very interested in the potential harnessing of the heat in the earth as a source of power.
yea that would be a excellent source of power.....ive been reading that since the moon has no atmostphere that if solar plants were to be placed at the poles they would collect massive more amonts of energy than the earth bound solar plants
i dunno lol....thats prolly why they havent done it yet.....the only solution i can think of is...have it stored i big power cells on the moon and then transport them back like once per year or something
at the current costs of getting mass into space.... thats a highly unfeasable option... perhaps a giant cable???
the biggest anti nuclear plant debate is with the accidents at Cherynoble (yes I know i didn't spell it right) and the closer one to me... 3 mile island
also with the lack of containment of the nuclear waste
war is a fact of life, their is no way to put down all wars, as much as I hate to think this, world peace will never happen, atleast not in my lifetime. coal and oil will run out however... in mylife time, so to me that seems like a bigger issue, Ill see the end of fossil fuels but not peace
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yes that is why it wont happen until we can find cheaper ways of space travel......and i believe that the containment of nuclear waste is a better propostion than the destructive elements of buring coal
We have numerous windmills in Minnesota and they help many people substantially. My professor bought just a small windmill for his farmhouse and it costed $50,000 and within 5 years it paid itself off. I think windmills need to be used more, widespread across the United States to help with our energy problems. They are effective and for the most part, low maintenance.
I've also had personal energy-generating ideas, one which I saw in a Time magazine. You know the cement center medians in the cities and suburbs? Well I saw an article where they built small turbines within the median that had open air slots facing the road, so that when the vehicles drove by, the wind would enter the median and turn the turbines, generating energy. It was a rather brilliant idea.
all me need to do is get our act together and hurry up and get a nuclear fission reactor, (or fusion i forget which, its the one we dont have right now), its ingredients is heavy water and its byproduct is water.
the only problem is it needs a temperature of 1 million degrees. and the only thing capable of containing it thus far, is a electromagnetic field. and once its started it is self susstaning IIRC. and its energy output is insane, it basically solves the earths power problems for the next few centuries at least. but we are no where near figuring it out.
but it is clean, no pollutions, no dangerous byproducts that need to be contained somewhere, and its uses a reneable resource.
they have this reactor is the later Sim City games.
if i got it wrong, its been ages since i looked into it, but it is a very good idea and possible, once we figure out how to contain it properly.
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not that i know of, it might be modelled on it, but its not quite the same, i remember learning about it in physics class when i paid attention, hence the hazy details.
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-Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's First Law of Equivalent Exchange. In those days, we really believed that to be the world's one, and only, truth.
Fission is what we have, breaking apart unstable elements into unstable part. Fusion is combining them, making much more energy and just about no waste. And Doc Ock was doing fission and fusion, like a sun.
Anyway, nuclear really is a much better alternative than almost any non-renewable fuel available to us.
fusion is closer now than it was before, but still is tough to recreate. the sun uses fusion, not fission, and dr. ock was just working on fusion. problem is that he blew up a good section of the city by doing it unsafely, but i think thats just in the movie. today's science is very careful, they dont want to take any big risks with this or else they may blow themselves up of even worse, blow a section of the planet up. its very safe and measured as of now, but they are trying to find ways to make force fields, and they even got plasma shields i think.
They can make plasma shields, but the thing is they need the kind of power that fusion power makes to run them, to pump the juice through them, but they need the shields to make the fusion safer.
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The main argument that has been brought up was against the roadways that would be needed to haul in the near 500 foot windmills. They are going to be placed atop of a mountain near my house. They are afraid the roads will destroy the streams and creeks.
But, when I pressed deeper into the subject I found that the one who had started to anti-gamesa campain was angered because the property owners with the windmills being put on them where going to recieve $3,000 per windmill and a monthly paycheck. Which I see no reason that that is unreasonable.
Around here strip mines are very common, they clearcut the forrest and dig for coal, they have a far worse impact than roads would make, which is evident from Dark Shade creek, I can't remember the actual waste from it but in a year its well over 1,000,000 lbs of sulfer. If these people are so concerned with the environment then why wouldn't they help by spending a little bit of money on limestone dosing, which cleans up the creeks.
The windmills that are to be build will in all generate 400 megawatts of power, enough to power 135,000 houses.
A similar coal plant that generates 400 megawatts of power produces 2 tons of Uranium with 30 pounds of Uranium 235, and nearl 5.5 tons of thorium.
Other specs of the windmills
Total height 480 feet to tip of blade
tip of generator, 350 feet
each blade is 140 feet long
base diameter 52 feet
I'm for it.
Folks will always come and go, so enjoy them while they're meant to be in your life.
the biggest anti nuclear plant debate is with the accidents at Cherynoble (yes I know i didn't spell it right) and the closer one to me... 3 mile island
also with the lack of containment of the nuclear waste
war is a fact of life, their is no way to put down all wars, as much as I hate to think this, world peace will never happen, atleast not in my lifetime. coal and oil will run out however... in mylife time, so to me that seems like a bigger issue, Ill see the end of fossil fuels but not peace
I've also had personal energy-generating ideas, one which I saw in a Time magazine. You know the cement center medians in the cities and suburbs? Well I saw an article where they built small turbines within the median that had open air slots facing the road, so that when the vehicles drove by, the wind would enter the median and turn the turbines, generating energy. It was a rather brilliant idea.
the only problem is it needs a temperature of 1 million degrees. and the only thing capable of containing it thus far, is a electromagnetic field. and once its started it is self susstaning IIRC. and its energy output is insane, it basically solves the earths power problems for the next few centuries at least. but we are no where near figuring it out.
but it is clean, no pollutions, no dangerous byproducts that need to be contained somewhere, and its uses a reneable resource.
they have this reactor is the later Sim City games.
if i got it wrong, its been ages since i looked into it, but it is a very good idea and possible, once we figure out how to contain it properly.
Anyway, nuclear really is a much better alternative than almost any non-renewable fuel available to us.