RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-20 Thread desertstallion
AIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 4:16 AM > To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story > > > My understnding is that in most places in the world they use the cheapest > form > of electrici

RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-19 Thread kirk
@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story My understnding is that in most places in the world they use the cheapest form of electricity in the base. Then, as demand increases, they add more expensive forms. So...they have a large base of hydro and coal. As

Re: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-19 Thread Hakan
Derek, Unfortunately it is a misconception that hydroelectric is large. It is very few countries today, that have more than 10% of electricity generation from hydroelectric. In developing countries the peak demand is around meal times. In developed countries the peak demands are more complicate

Re: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-19 Thread desertstallion
My understnding is that in most places in the world they use the cheapest form of electricity in the base. Then, as demand increases, they add more expensive forms. So...they have a large base of hydro and coal. As demand increases in the summer, they might add gas turbine generated electricity

Re: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-18 Thread paul van den bergen
On Sat, 17 May 2003 12:20 am, Bryan Brah wrote: > As Hakan has said storage of wind generated electricity will be the > hardest problem to solve if we are to rely on it for our power needs. actually, any environmentally derived power has this problem, potentially. specifically, the amount of pow

RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-17 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-05-16/s_4482.asp GE's move into wind power business seen as significant 16 May 2003 By John Christoffersen, Associated Press FAIRFIELD, Conn. - General Electric Co. is injecting some pinstriped corporate muscle into the still-evolving world of wind power. A year

RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-17 Thread Hakan
torage problem. > > > >-BRAH > > > >-Original Message----- >From: Kim Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 5:59 PM >To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >Subject: RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story > > > >Wind

RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-16 Thread Bryan Brah
rom: Kim Nguyen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 5:59 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story Wind has its own unique set of pros and cons like everything else...and I see it as a vital component to a sustainable and bal

RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-16 Thread Kim Nguyen
> >-Original Message- >From: Bryan Brah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 12:58 PM >To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >Subject: RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story > > >Small-scale wind power utilization is definitely NOT the

RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-16 Thread Kim Nguyen
groups.com Subject: RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story Small-scale wind power utilization is definitely NOT the trend in the US. Installed capacity here generally consists of 80 - 300 MW farms of hundreds of 1MW + turbines. There is great popular support for wind in the US as ev

RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-15 Thread Hakan
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 12:58 PM >To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com >Subject: RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story > > >Small-scale wind power utilization is definitely NOT the trend in the US. >Installed capacity here generally consists

Re: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-15 Thread Greg and April
I would be willing to bet that it could be taken care of just with all the " hot wind " from the politicians in D.C. alone. Greg H. - Original Message - From: "Bryan Brah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 12:58 Subject: RE: [biofuel

RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-15 Thread kirk
Problem with storage. The energy is there but not all the time. Kirk -Original Message- From: Bryan Brah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 12:58 PM To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story Small-scale wind power

RE: [biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-15 Thread Bryan Brah
] Wind Power -- a European Success Story http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15899 Wind Power -- a European Success Story By Craig Morris, Telepolis May 13, 2003 As we saw in the last installment on wind power, http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15900 (Are Wind Turbines

[biofuel] Wind Power -- a European Success Story

2003-05-15 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15899 Wind Power -- a European Success Story By Craig Morris, Telepolis May 13, 2003 As we saw in the last installment on wind power, http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15900 (Are Wind Turbines Actually Bird Blenders?) wind turbines are neith