Re: Expensive oil is the only way to stop gluttony

"Major Debacle" <Major_Debacle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> John Galt wrote:
>> "Major Debacle" <Major_Debacle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Rich wrote:
>>>> Major Debacle wrote:
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>>>>> Do you actually think a that a man smart enough to make billions of 
>>>>> dollars dealing in oil is going to be stupid enough not to put a wet

>>>>> finger to the wind?
>>>> I think you are not smart enough to realize and understand that the
>>>> wind does not always blow.
>>> Not even *you* are stupid enough to think that.
>>>
>>> If the wind blows for only 364 days out 365 a year, is that reason 
>>> enough not to put a wind farm there?
>>>
>>> If the wind blows for only *363* days out 365 a year, is that reason 
>>> enough not to put a wind farm there?
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>> I would think that mathematically, it would be fairly simple to figure 
>> out the expected production (and sales on that production) at
historical 
>> wind levels so it can be compared to the cost of the structures and 
>> infrastructure required.
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> And, by any *reasonable* person's standard, you would be absolutely
right.
>

These wind farms are being set up all over the world.
What's with these people?
This is not new technology...I saw wind farms out West over twenty years 
ago.
With the rise in the cost of energy the cost of wind generated energy is 
becoming very competitive
What the hell are they beefing about?
They ought to be cheering it on.






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>> JG
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>>> At what point does it become uneconomical not to put in a wind farm?
>>>
>>> If the fact that the wind does not blow continuously in a given area 
>>> were reason enough not to put in a wind farm, there would be no wind 
>>> farms in the world. But there *are* wind farms all over the world, in 
>>> spite of your petulant belief that anything less than a ceaselessly 
>>> blowing wind is not worth exploiting.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is he smart enough to make the wind always blow? I don't think so.
>>> No, but he's rich enough to build the world's largest wind farm and
you 
>>> are only rich enough to say it's not a good idea.
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