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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
For what it is worth, there are very few location in Canada that can justify wind gen. A few spots in S AB, S MB and the east coast can work, but generally at poor returns that don't really attract much attention to investment dollars compared to alternatives.
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And you know this how? I'm very curious about this as there are wind energy farms all over the United States, so why would it be different in the United States than in Canada or vice versa?
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Not sure what you mean by inexpensive, but you certainly can't be refering to the sunk cost of a turbine.
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Compared to the sunk cost of any other energy plant? I don't get your point. Did you not follow and read the link in the last reply?
"A modern wind farm that is located in a good area can generate power for about 3 ½ cents per kilowatt-hour. That compares very favorably with other new forms of generation. For reference, diesel generation costs between 8 and 16 cents per kwh and nuclear power costs between 11 and 15 cents per kwh."
Do you not think that the costs of the wind farm are factored into these costs per kilo-watt-hour?
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In general if any of your ideas worked commercially on any kind of real scale, they'd have already happened. Nobody is alergic to money, so if there was a buck to make these ideas would not be found once in a while on chat forums. The trick will be taking some of these nice and cute ideas and turning them into commercial scale operations that actually make an impact.
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All of these "nice" and "cute" ideas are already in use in many locations around the world. Many of them are already used in industrial applications to reduce energy costs. Just because they are not yet adopted in North America does not make them poor concepts.
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I'm all for ideas and don't really mean to discourage them, but the market can tell you if they work or not.
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Yes, the market is always correct and the market is never manipulated.
