The Beauty of Windpower | 36 comments (36 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: The Beauty of Windpower (4.00 / 2)

Thanks for these videos, the second one is really interesting.

I just wonder, how are we going to build these things without liquid fuels? Surely electric engines can replace those in the cranes and trucks, but how far from now?

luis_de_sousa@mastodon.social

by Luis de Sousa (luis[dot]de[dot]sousa[at]protonmail[dot]ch) on Wed Aug 1st, 2007 at 01:55:45 PM EST

Re: The Beauty of Windpower (4.00 / 5)

Thanks. That second video has been viewed over 25,000 times. It is about the wind turbine I can walk to visit so I act like it is mine ;-)

The answer is--we are not going to build these things without liquid fuels--for now.

Petroleum is capital. Windpower is income. We simply MUST use our capital to build the infrastructure that allows us to live off our income. There are no other reasonable choices.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Wed Aug 1st, 2007 at 02:09:24 PM EST
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Re: The Beauty of Windpower (4.00 / 3)

Petroleum is capital. Windpower is income. We simply MUST use our capital to build the infrastructure that allows us to live off our income. There are no other reasonable choices.

bingo, you nailed it perfectly...gobbling the seed corn, burning the furniture...

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Aug 1st, 2007 at 08:29:53 PM EST
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Re: The Beauty of Windpower (4.00 / 3)

Petroleum is capital. Windpower is income.

THAT is really good.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Thu Aug 2nd, 2007 at 12:02:01 AM EST
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it is rather good, isn't it!

petroleum is capital, windpower is income... and what does that make nuclear? hot speculative venture capital? and solar power -- the interest on a trust fund? or perhaps an annuity with a very long lifetime?

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Fri Aug 3rd, 2007 at 02:30:08 AM EST
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The Beauty of Windpower | 36 comments (36 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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