nakedjaybird

Why Isn't Midwest Wind-Generated Power Blowing East?

David Fessler - now you just turn around and go inform all your friends in DC to get with putting all the new power grid within the already existing right-of-ways for all the interstate hiways. They criss-cross the US hinterlands every 100-200 miles and thru if not nearby all major cities in the US, east to west, north to south. That's the answer as to where to put the new transmission lines.

The short connects from solar or wind farms to the interstate hiway grids should be a minor problem and the major is solved. Put up the new solar and wind generating farms - and bury, put along side or above the interstate highways all the transmission. We already have those right-of- ways.

Let the Gov't own the transmission. They own everything else, or soon will. It's certainly cheaper than having all the regulators and utilities and their lawyers arguing about it for a dozen years and then doing something, maybe. We pay for that too.

So go tell 'em.

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PS Jonesbury - burning is an oxidation process; freely in "air", or reacting with other chemicals with or without the help of a catalyst in a fuel cell or recombination device, or combining with oxygen in a chemical rocket engine.

You are almost suggesting stripping hydrogen from methane to then burn the hydrogen - when when should just burn the methane at no additional enegy input or cost - unless the application justifies the additional cost (such as needing hydrogen for it's specific impulse in a nuclear propulsion system in outer space).

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jonesbury - what you miss in "wasting" solar, wind, and tidal vis-a-vis all the other energy sources (well, throw in geo and hydro too), is that the actual energy cost is zero compared to the cost of idling oil, gas, coal, wood, generation, etc. So, idling production, or generation is just underutilization of the capital and some of the operating costs, but certainly not the fuel cost. Ya know, it's like letting your gas guzzler idle at the stoplight V/S the pure electric or hybrid actually shutting off; or better yet, the solar PV rooftop driven car stopped at the stoplight. It's just missed opportunity, not waste.

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Hey all you financial wizzards of Wall Street - how's this for paying off the costs of the $750 B bailout and following that, our Trillions of national debt:

Don't puke, now: just listen up.

Let's have Uncle directly take 1% of the 2%(+) of total assets that all financial management firms take from us as management fees and apply it to the Nations' debt. It's really our money, first. The firms take the 2% whether they make of lose money. It's a win-win. Pays the debt AND CUTS EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION (a form of "legal" white collar theft).

It is a myth you know, that we have to pay lots to get the best managment. The proof is overwhelming.

And what's best, we Joe Blow's won't feel the pain.

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PS - short of the bailout costs we will experience for who knows how long.

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Right on Mark Goldes - and that no-moving parts BIOFUEL INJECTED BURNER incapsulated with solid state waste heat direct conversion to electric devices powering a 20-40 hp electric motor with the only onboard energy device being a GRASS TANK, will not only remove the Houston noose from around our necks, but also whatever is left of the Detroit noose.

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jonebury - making and storing Hydrogen to then burn it is a waste of energy and money.

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Roadrunner - get real. What's the underutilzation of the gas guzzler you own while you are at work or sleeping? Better yet, what's the underutilization of all the interstate highways?????? And the railroads???

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Ya again - and Roadrunner, when we turn the diesel-electric railroads into 100% electric and the diesel-electric trucks into BIODIESEL-ELECTRICS we will also release the Houston noose from our necks.

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Goodness gracious dear author -- please describe for me the actual nature of all ths wasted electricity????