[ExI] Metric, was Home turbines

hkhenson hkhenson at rogers.com
Sat Jan 12 02:10:16 UTC 2008


At 03:55 PM 1/11/2008, Stefano Vaj  wrote:
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/07/microwind_chocolate_teapot/
>
>Home turbines can't light a candle
>A puny wind
>By Andrew Orlowski
>
>Domestic "microwind" turbines, recently championed as "power from the
>people" by opposition leader David Cameron, are about as useful as a
>chocolate teapot.

The metric I used to size a space elevator for building solar power 
satellites was to displace all the coal burning power plants in the 
US in one year.  That's 300 GW.

Keith 




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