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Won't our energy requirement keep increasing, requiring new turbines?
US energy requirements peaked in 2007 and have been on the decline, we use less energy in 2016 than we did in 2000, thanks to gains in efficiency. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=30652 https://www.statista.com/statistics/189723/us-energy-consump...
I live in a school bus, traveling the country. I think wind turbines are absolutely beautiful; I always marvel at them when we drive by. Does anybody here know how to break into this industry, working on a mobile, on-site basis? Maybe with embedded tech?
Windmill technology is fairly low tech. there are a few things around the wings but besides that it's not really a "tech" business IMO.
Example article of some work going on in this space: https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2014-10-optimizin...
I live in a school bus, traveling the country. I think wind turbines are absolutely beautiful; I always marvel at them when we drive by. Does anybody here know how to break into this industry, working on a mobile, on-site basis? Maybe with embedded tech?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUjCD-fFU9k
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2011/06/06/06climatewire-compan...
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And nuclear is in an even more eco-friendly category than those. This seems accurate: http://energyrealityproject.com/lets-run-the-numbers-nuclear...
Isn't the AP-1000 reactor he is citing about to cause the downfall of Westinghouse and Toshiba due to extreme cost overruns? Upfront cost, liability and waste disposable with nuclear cannot be overlooked. He also noted: > A reactor has a 60-year service life. Fukushima suggests otherwise. Holding on to old reactor designs has resulted in catastrophic failures.
Waste disposal is a non issue, and Fukashima was due to terrible planning. It wouldn't be solar's fault if someone put too many solar panels on a weak roof and they fell through.
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US energy requirements peaked in 2007 and have been on the decline, we use less energy in 2016 than we did in 2000, thanks to gains in efficiency. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=30652 https://www.statista.com/statistics/189723/us-energy-consump...
As we electrify our transit sector, there will be a bump in consumption.
I live in a school bus, traveling the country. I think wind turbines are absolutely beautiful; I always marvel at them when we drive by. Does anybody here know how to break into this industry, working on a mobile, on-site basis? Maybe with embedded tech?
>I think wind turbines are absolutely beautiful They are. Like living sculptures. There's just something extremely dignified about them. Like finally growing up after the childishness of strip-mining. The adults are here.
I for one can't wait until we develop a way to live without them - the only condolence is that they move us away from the coal and gas industries. I do hope that solar leaves them in its wake and we can be done with the monstrosities.
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>I think wind turbines are absolutely beautiful They are. Like living sculptures. There's just something extremely dignified about them. Like finally growing up after the childishness of strip-mining. The adults are here.
I couldn't disagree more. They popped up as I was growing up - littering the coastline and countryside. They can be seen from great distances and serve to make the place seem an awful lot smaller. I for one can't wait until we develop a way to live without them - the only condolence is that they move us away from the coal and gas industries. I do hope that solar leaves them in its wake and we can be done with the mon…
Your word choice is interesting.
The article does not respond to the claim of the president that windmills kill birds. Do they really in a significant way? Is it worthy of being called an environmental disaster?
According to the EIA [0], wind energy reached 5.6% of total electricity production. Having worked with raw EIA data I can say that the inputs are not very reliable: a) a lot of smaller farms are not included in EIA data b) reporting is voluntary and 30%+ of wind sites stopped reporting data in 2016, for example [1], and c) reporting is based on surveys which means errors, delays, etc. The US is really lagging behind…
The future, where everyone involved in a major industry can be fitted into an SEC football stadium.