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Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas
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#62Stop trying to hoard the air! Serious question - as of right now, does Amazon have wind farms to reduce their own costs or do they plan on making a profit by selling the energy to consumers?
It could just be a hedge against future taxes on fossil fuels which seem inevitable if we are going to meet the Paris commitments on climate change.
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#63I doubt this will offset the huge boost in emissions which will come with Amazon's 'Flex' service, which will see products delivered fast via horribly inefficient passenger cars, as opposed to relatively efficient vans and trucks.
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#64Are these wind farms located near data centers and such use the power directly? Or do they dump into the grid and sell it as power then claim all their power usage is renewable because it is "offset"?
The press release itself reads "Amazon will purchase about 90% of the power generated by the wind farm." so I assume the primary purpose is their data centers.
Interesting because there is no Amazon DC anywhere near that area.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nothing strange at all about MWh/year. A MWh is just 1000 kWh, which is a very standard unit of energy. With wind farms it makes more sense to talk about it's production in MWh rather than it's capacity in MW. The actual energy produced by a 253 MW array will vary significantly based on where it is sited, etc.
hours/year (= 1/8765.76) is a strange factor by which to multiply a perfectly good SI unit (MW).
Objectively it is strange, but it is the norm in that industry.
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#67Hopefully they can cut down on excessive packaging at the same time: packagingnews.co.uk/news/environment/amazon-customers-criticise-excessive-packaging-21-12-2015
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Re: Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas
#70Will this wind facility actually be connected to an Amazon facility, or is Amazon doing this to collect the wind production tax credit?