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08-29-2007, 14:26

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Windmills for electricity

I'm waiting for the technology to become less intrusive. There are new designs that pretty much can be mounted on or near almost any home. They take less space, make less noise, and kill far fewer birds. Popular Mechanics has a link to one that Jay Leno is building (below). I sure like that magazine.

[Edit] OK, the link to Jay Leno's wind power stuff keeps getting deleted so you can go to PopularMechanics dot com and search for "wind power". It's right there.

[Edit] I put the link in and it works DennisCTB
[Edit] Thanks, Dennis, I just got around to retrying it and I see you were here first.

Link: Jay Leno Wind Mill

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Somewhere in the recesses of my brain is the nagging feeling that there is a downside to windmills that nobody is seeing. I'm not talking about bird kills or visual blight, I'm talking about Newton's third law which says that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. If billions of windmills are built what will it do to weather patterns? Will it affect the speed of the earths rotation even slightly? What will the long term ramifications be? Food for thought (or laughter if you're so inclined)

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I agree that governmental interference in the markets is generally detrimental. However, with volume the unit price goes down. If tax breaks can jump start wind energy production, and if the volume becomes large enough that the per-unit price comes down to where it makes sense on a much smaller scale, then maybe it will be a good thing in the long run. It would be wonderful if every home had solar panels or wind turbines for self-sufficiency and to feed any excess back into the grid. The only way that will happen is if the per-unit price comes down, and that will only happen with volume.

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