I hate to beat up on Democrats, but when it comes to windpower we are on the side of the devils
Sen. Harris B. McDowell III, D-Wilmington North…estimates that in the long term, the hybrid plan will cost an additional $1 billion and provide no more electricity than the natural gas plant alone.
(Huh? Where did he get the $1 billion figure?)
The natural gas plant — originally proposed for a Wilmington site by Conectiv — would cost $100 million and could provide 177 megawatts of electricity, McDowell said, enough to power about 150,000 homes.
McDowell is so in the pocket of Delmarva Power and Conectiv that it is sickening. If he wanted to lobby for his sugar daddy – why didn’t just do what Wayne Smith did and quit on Wednesday and lobby on Thursday.
Are you reading my thoughts again, Jason??
Having run against McDowell last year, featuring clean energy as my primary platform issue, I feel your pain seeing his post-re-election re-emergence as Senator Delmarva.
I know I’m going out on a limb here, but wind generators simply do not produce much electricity. If you guys know a mechanical engineer ask him.
The offshore wind-park sure would be pretty, but for the money invested, it would be next to useless electricty-wise. I know I’m going to get flamed, but check out the mechanics of the thing first, please.
Next to useless electricty-wise?
That’s a new one. Over the past few months I’ve gleened that most people who don’t like wind power mostly don’t like it because they make false “cost” assumptions. (Leaving out the downstream and upstream cost of buring stuff to turn steam turbines.)
I’ll have to get back to you on the “next to useless” thing.
Speaking of energy, that’s what I will be doing with Allan Loudell on WDEL, 1150 AM, at 5:35 this evening.
What I mean is that for the infrastructure buck (i.e., foundations, windmills, wiring, transformers, etc.), a tenth of the money spent on traditional energy converters produces a hundred times the kilowatts.
I know, I know, “but the wind is clean, dude”. But if to get enough energy to run a refrigerator costs $12,000 in investment, then we’re sort of in the same place Mike M. is with his PDA.
I am registered independent and lean to the left, but I did not vote for McDowell last election and will never vote for him. He is “next to useless” for our district and our state. All I can hope is that he eats too much Taco Bell and some natural gas takes him way out of town.
Hey, nobody ever came up with an answer as to what happens to one of these windmills in a hurricane. And why is it that I never see any solar panels on those big, flat school building roofs? Now there’s a school referendum I could back in a heartbeat!
Hey, nobody ever came up with an answer as to what happens to one of these windmills in a hurricane.
They generate even more electricty.
The blades tilt to diferent angles so that they can withstand excessive wind by presenting no or little profile. The Bluewater design is tested to withstand category 4 huuricanes virtually unheard of at their proposed location.
John Kowalko
Thanks John. Give em hell.
Good info, John. Good to see you in the mix!
The biggest danger to wind turbines is not excessive winds but extremely high/rough seas – of the typs only possible from a storm of such ferocity it would make wind turbine damage the least of our worries, were it to strike our coastline.
“The Bluewater design is tested to withstand category 4 huuricanes…”
Thanks for the info, John. It was an honest question, BTW, and not a potshot. I say build ’em here, and in Teddy Kennedy’s backyard as well!