Southwest Virginia: from coal power to wind power?

[jpak]

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/business/energy/article/B-WIND07_20090406-213305/250372/

APPALACHIA -- Coal is central to Southwest Virginia's past and immediate future, but another energy source is drawing attention in the central Appalachian coalfields.

As a $1.8 billion coaland biofuel-powered generating plant is being constructed at the eastern edge of Wise County, fields of wind turbines are proposed for the western end, along the Virginia-Kentucky line.

Dominion Virginia Power, which is building the power plant, joined with BP Wind Energy in January to propose the Wise County wind farm and another one in Tazewell County.

Combined, the projects present a potential investment of more than $600 million. Together, they could generate as much as 250 megawatts of power.

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[Systematic Chaos]

1. No.

[quidam56]

2. Wise County is being bombed, blasted and bulldozed right into 3rd world America

we can't stand anymore of the progress and prosperity, our environment is toxic and our acceptable standard of health care is abysmal at best. End Mountaintop Removal http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=138

[NNadir]

3. In the "wind will save us" fantasy land, they haven't grasped anywhere that

wind power's capacity utilization is STILL - just 25%.

Wind is unreliable.

It's been unreliable for the last 7 years I've been here listening to "wind is an alternative to coal" tripe.

Wind isn't even an alternative to dangerous natural gas.

In the 7 years I've been here, we've had bourgeois types with poor educations, little insight, and no concern whatsoever for the lives of the downtrodden selling bottles of snake oil on this subject.

The results are here:

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/alternate/page/renew_energy_consump/table1.html

The total wind power can't even keep pace with the growth of dangerous fossil fuels.

The same patent medicine selling snake oil salesmen here have been selling this particular oil for 7 years that I've been here, a period in which the concentration of dangerous fossil fuel waste in the atmosphere has risen from 373 ppm to 386 ppm, while the same snake oil salemen rail endlessly against the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free energy.

ftp://ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccg/co2/trends/co2_mm_mlo.txt

Being bourgeois brats with no educations, of course they are not interested in observational data, but only in repeating endlessly their dogma.

Wind is a failure, just like solar. It can't produce even one exajoule, never mind the 23 produced by coal in this country. If it did produce one exajoule it's external costs would be obviated, at which point all the happy talk shit would go out the window in a shower of whooping crane feathers.

Tell it to T. Boone Pickens.

Oh, and it will be interesting to see which bourgeois brats on this website who are so willing to let the poor live in the dark whenever the wind is not blowing actually do so themselves.

The number of such bourgeois brats here who talk the big talk who actually live with batteries and big backyard molten solar tanks and compressed air tanks and hydrogen tanks is ZERO.

[jpak]

4. Sting is walking up your street

Sting is on your lawn

Sting is looking into your windows

Sting is on your doorstep

Sting is fumbling with the latch

Sting is in your house

Sting is hiding under your bed

Sting is waiting for....

((((((((YOU)))))))))

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