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Originally Posted by slapass
It is not sustainable. The wind is not constant or during regular hours. So if you have 100% wind you still need 100% something else as a backup. All that extra infrastructure and investment just as back up. Yep, not going to work so lets bark up a different tree.
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Wow, come on...
A single small wind farm's energy output may be variable sure, but the more windmills and the more win farms you have, the more redundancy you have, and the more energy you have too. Wind farms at this stage are designed to supplement existing energy sources such as hydro, and do so while creating the smallest environmental impact.
It surprises me to no end that people on GFY who invest in high speed computers, who demand reliable hosting, and expect high tech software from billers, webcam, cms and other providers, who love high tech gadgets like smartphones and 4K TV's, are so ass-backwards when it comes to energy. You would think that the Internet generation would be pushing hard for high tech solutions for clean / renewable energy instead of happily accepting oil as the only source.