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RobertEarl

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4. I can think of 54 good locations for wind

Reply to RC (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 21, 2012, 10:22 PM

Apr 2012

Japan has learned an awful lesson. How they ever got conned into putting up those god-awful nukes we'll soon find out. You're right, they will come up with a solution beyond our stuck in the mud anti-human nukes, eh?

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Only *NOW* do the Japanese people learn that they didn't need nuclear for CO2 reductions. [View all] kristopher Apr 2012 OP

Japan has lots of wind. You'd think they would have gone that way a long time ago. MADem Apr 2012 #1

Japan, unlike the United States cares about their land and resources. RC Apr 2012 #2

You don't need to line every horizon to get a lot of energy out of them. And I think they are MADem Apr 2012 #3

I can think of 54 good locations for wind RobertEarl Apr 2012 #4

I added an article above about Japanese "floating" windmills, positioned on barges. MADem Apr 2012 #5

They'll make lemonade from their lemon RobertEarl Apr 2012 #6

I think America is getting the spirit. My glass is half full. MADem Apr 2012 #9

Why use barges when the turbine can use the water as a bearing? Fumesucker Apr 2012 #7

You'd have to ask them. Maybe they want to be able to tow them to where the wind is at different MADem Apr 2012 #8

At one time I built Really Big Stuff In the Water for a living.. Fumesucker Apr 2012 #10

Those Japanese are clever when it comes to engineering, though--I think they must have a "Big Idea" MADem Apr 2012 #11

Jackup rigs were one thing we built among other oil production equipment.. Fumesucker Apr 2012 #14

This is one of the concepts in testing now. kristopher Apr 2012 #17

The "Seatwirl" has a very, very limited future as a device to harvest wind. kristopher Apr 2012 #12

In that case then there are a number of flying wind generators that get the blades up nice and high. Fumesucker Apr 2012 #13

I've always been fascinated with high altitude wind kristopher Apr 2012 #16

The altitude doesn't even have to be that high.. Fumesucker Apr 2012 #18

Tell that to the people around the nuke plant that failed n2doc Apr 2012 #15