Comments on: The Solution is Simple http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/06/05/the-solution-is-simple-2/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: R Margolis http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/06/05/the-solution-is-simple-2/#comment-64778 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:06:48 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4825#comment-64778 If you look at independent studies such as the ExternE report, wind is one of the lowest carbon intensity power sources. Wind is like other sources of power in that it cannot do the job alone. Wind needs to be coupled with baseload sources to balance out any intermittency. Even Denmark balances its high wind power percentage by being tied to the Nordic power pool. No energy source is perfect. :-)

]]> By: jlw http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/06/05/the-solution-is-simple-2/#comment-64748 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:45:44 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4825#comment-64748 You do realize that even making things like Wind Turbines takes lots of petroleum, right?

Sure. But it doesn’t take more energy to make a wind turbine than it does a coal boiler or a gas turbine, all things considered. And once you’ve finished making the wind turbine, it doesn’t need any more fuel, while the coal boiler will keep burning carbon-rich fuel its entire useful life.

Building a wind turbine or a solar thermal plant is an investment in making things better. Building more coal-fired power plants is an investment in making things worse.

]]> By: MNPundit http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/06/05/the-solution-is-simple-2/#comment-64747 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:26:57 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4825#comment-64747 You do realize that even making things like Wind Turbines takes lots of petroleum, right?

]]> By: Sparki http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/06/05/the-solution-is-simple-2/#comment-64686 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:19:53 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4825#comment-64686 UPDATE NYPD arrested Alain Robert at the 52nd story a little while ago

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