Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: Wind is terrific as well, however it's pretty hard to improve the tech all > that rapidly like solar. >
It is still moving ahead pretty quickly. Especially offshore installations. In Northern Europe North Sea offshore installations could produce 4 times more electricity than Europe consumes. The North Sea is shallow. > It also kills birds . . . > It kills thousands of times fewer birds than coal smoke does, and steam from power generator cooling towers do. It kills fewer birds than reflective glass buildings do. If we could replace all coal with wind today, it would save far more birds than it kills. It would also save roughly 20,000 human lives per year. That is how many people are killed by coal smoke particulates. - Jed
