I found some much cooler (no pun intended) shots here: http://trigphotography.smugmug.com/keyword/brayton%20point#!i=1381233189&k=67M9Bw3
and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpenney/6091113316/ My shot does not really convey how large they loom on the horizon. As I was flying out of Green airport (35 miles away) they really stood out as soon as we had some altitude. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:41 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > on 2012-08-14 10:04 George Sinos wrote > >> So, wind and solar can be used to defer the use of traditional >> resources, but eventually those traditional resources will be needed. > > > something that runs continuously is needed, but it could still be renewable; > there are also several potential mitigators: efficiency gains, storable > electricity (e.g. people's cars being charged while they are parked at > work), non-electric storable energy (e.g. solar thermal), and simply > rationalizing behavior (using less energy when renewable sources are less) > > > >> I'm not against wind or solar, I just don't see the significant growth >> of their use happening soon. > > > from 2007 to 2011 wind generation nearly quadrupled in the US and solar PV > tripled; partial 2012 stats show PV generation almost doubling over 2011 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
