Mammoth $200M wind farm proposed in Iowa
WoW!
I can hardly hold my hat on this wind is so mammoth!
But I must keep farming!
Wait...no, this is a different kind of farm.
It's a good idea to invest in energy sources like this one. It gives Iowa a touch of excitement....
I'm impressed you can make a mammoth one with only $200 million. I could imagine the budget on a new power plant of today's standard would stagger those funding the mammoth farm.
Plus points to this is they are clean. Their maintenence is minimal and does not require a nuclear reactor engineer to do and they look cool when you're driving to visit family.
Do they count as hydro-electric in the rain?
posted by Kombucha @ 8:55 PM
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I'm impressed you can make a mammoth one with only $200 million. I could imagine the budget on a new power plant of today's standard would stagger those funding the mammoth farm.
Yeah, it would. This thing is enough to generate as much electricity as 50,000-60,000 homes use--relatively small by ordinary power plant standards.
Plus points to this is they are clean. Their maintenence is minimal and does not require a nuclear reactor engineer to do and they look cool when you're driving to visit family.
Yes. The "clean" covers a lot of ground--no mining or drilling, no fuel transportation (tanker spills, pipeline leaks), no water use, no waste, and no air, water, or global warming pollution! They're also good for energy security (no imported fuel) and use a resource that is inexhaustible. Blah blah blah.
Do they count as hydro-electric in the rain?
Hmmm, cute, but I don't think so.
Wind energy's potential for rural economies is huge. For more info, see the U.S. Department Energy publication Wind Energy for Rural Economic Development.
The key ingredient for wind's continued expansion? Continuing the federal wind energy production tax credit (PTC), which reduces a wind farm owner's tax payments by 1.9 cents for each kilowatt-hour of electricity the wind farm generates during the first 10 years of its operation. The PTC is currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2007. If the credit is extended for several years, we will see much greater use of this clean energy resource. You can help support this and other pro-wind laws here.
Regards,
Thomas O. Gray
American Wind Energy Association
www.awea.org
www.ifnotwind.org
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