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where should the watts come from
President Obama has laid out a plan called "New Energy for America." Some of the goals are very ambitious. One of them is to have 25% of our electricity come from renewable resources by 2025.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/newenergy
The idea is that North Dakota is a windy place, and we just have to build a whole lot of windmills there and then build transmission lines to send all those gigawatts from the plains to places like Chicago. The proposal is out there, and it won't be cheap. A high voltage transmission line to connect North Dakota to Illinois will cost at least $10 billion.
http://www.twincities.com/ci_11868236
Things like this have been tried in Europe, and from what I understand, it is difficult to rely on the wind. E.ON's 2005 report showed a case where 6,000 MW of capacity in Germany at one time produced 40 MW.
http://www.windaction.org/documents/461
I don't think the sun and wind will be able to generate enough reliable energy to get 25% of our electricity from them. I am a big fan of nuclear energy, I wish we would have a lot more of it. This may be the only time where I think "why can't we be like France?" where they get 87% of their electricity from nuclear.
President Obama has laid out a plan called "New Energy for America." Some of the goals are very ambitious. One of them is to have 25% of our electricity come from renewable resources by 2025.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/newenergy
The idea is that North Dakota is a windy place, and we just have to build a whole lot of windmills there and then build transmission lines to send all those gigawatts from the plains to places like Chicago. The proposal is out there, and it won't be cheap. A high voltage transmission line to connect North Dakota to Illinois will cost at least $10 billion.
http://www.twincities.com/ci_11868236
Things like this have been tried in Europe, and from what I understand, it is difficult to rely on the wind. E.ON's 2005 report showed a case where 6,000 MW of capacity in Germany at one time produced 40 MW.
http://www.windaction.org/documents/461
I don't think the sun and wind will be able to generate enough reliable energy to get 25% of our electricity from them. I am a big fan of nuclear energy, I wish we would have a lot more of it. This may be the only time where I think "why can't we be like France?" where they get 87% of their electricity from nuclear.