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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Mar 20 09:14:09 2005, in response to Re: NYS Wind Map (Gas Hits $3.15 in California), posted by AlM on Sun Mar 20 08:17:50 2005. Last time I *had* to look at it was when I was with the PSC - having resigned to do what I do now in peace back in 1996. Obviously the "state of the art" trudges on ... I certainly hope you're not taking my technojabs personally ... I have a purpose in life, being the pin to prick overinflated politicos and their parrots. :)OK, that's probably pretty close to the load of AIR PRODUCTS ... I couldn't get OVER the gauge of the conductors feeding them, especially considering that they were 465 kV lines! Woof! :( I'm NOT anti-wind ... thought I think the damned windmills are in the wrong place - if they erected 50 units in the CAPITOL, I suspect that at least when the legislature is in session, all the OTHER power plants across the state can be shut down for an oiling. But I digress. (grin) What I've tried to say is that wind power is VALID, although there's damned few places in NYS where they can actually twirl enough to be useful. And even when they're useful, once you're up in the particularly STRANGE topography of upstate New York, you tend to have a weak wind starting at about 6AM, growing in intensity to about 10AM whereupon it dies off fast and becomes "light and variable" until around 2PM where it picks up again to something interesting at 3PM and then tapers off until around sunset whereupon it gets dark, wind is too "light and variable" to be of much use and overnight ... nada ... such is the metereorology up here - one of my hobbies ... SURE you get power, and actually some near the peaks, but not COVERING the peaks with the intensity required ... and the locations we've discussed before are pretty much as good as it gets ... but the REALITY is for WIND power to REALLY work for NEW YORK, we need to put them on ALL of the beaches on Long Island. The wind is MUCH more stable and reliable there. Now ASK yourself, would Long Island's south shore GO for it? :( Asked and answered ... yeah we got wind - especially in the capitol ... but just how stable is it? Problem. |
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