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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
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- Subject: Re: ZERO Nuclear impact (was: Is car pooling for real? etc)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.004842.28615@cco.caltech.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 00:48:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.183503.9094@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul23.173642.9571@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (dean alaska) writes:
- >> At Altamont, prices rose from $400 to $2,000 per acre, reflecting
- >> royalties paid to landowners for use of the land. Ranchers lost
- >> only about 5% of the grazing area at Altamont, where cattle graze
- >> around the wind machines.
- >
- > You seemed to be saying that we would get 2TW from wind. I see no
- > way to do that without putting a few (!) windmills around (the 'front
- > yard' thing was a joke, son, just a joke).
- >
- > Also, Altamont is just peachy for a wind farm. Most other places are
- > not so peachy. There may well be a place for wind power, however,
- > I suspect that filling the plains of Nebraska with windmills is
- > probably not the place. Power companies tend to like their maintenence
- > nightmares to be confined to a relatively small surface area.
-
- The Cajon pass in Southern California is such a place. Winds between the Los
- Angeles basin and the other side of the pass are funneled through the pass.
- Anybody for constructing an artificial mountain chain across Nebraska so that
- they can get the same advantage?
-
- >>Energy use does not need to increase with economic growth. This has been
- >>well demonstrated in CA in the 80's.
-
- Which CA are you talking about? If you're talking about Canada, I don't know
- anything about that. If you're talking about California, then you might want
- to take a look at things now. Remember: A business doesn't pack up and move
- overnight. It takes a while before they've got new facilities to move to. At
- the moment California seems to be experiencing a mass exodus of industry out of
- the state. Perhaps your "demonstration" has backfired?
-
- > I repeat again. There was no increase in generating capacity
- > in CA in the 80's?
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