tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post115702151266809173..comments2023-12-27T22:36:01.407-06:00Comments on Anna's Clue Tank: A Scare In Your TankAnnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13364196938058625069noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post-1157830080691953482006-09-09T14:28:00.000-05:002006-09-09T14:28:00.000-05:00My pleasure. I enjoyed your scrutiny of the ethan...My pleasure. I enjoyed your scrutiny of the ethanol issue too.<BR/><BR/>I mentioned the production tax credit for wind. Readers can help support this and other pro-wind laws <A HREF="http://www.awea.org/legislative/" REL="nofollow">here</A>.<BR/><BR/>TomTom Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14728522824855808421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post-1157242146837196942006-09-02T19:09:00.000-05:002006-09-02T19:09:00.000-05:00Tom, thanks for the corrections. Something I enjo...Tom, thanks for the corrections. Something I enjoy is learning new stuff.<BR/><BR/>And Boz you are welcome. :)Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13364196938058625069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post-1157083631702200152006-08-31T23:07:00.000-05:002006-08-31T23:07:00.000-05:00nice post enjoyed the logic...nice post enjoyed the logic...B0Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08857652251398892036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9198020.post-1157025644903203842006-08-31T07:00:00.000-05:002006-08-31T07:00:00.000-05:00[T]hat is reassuring, the cost of wind power can b...<I>[T]hat is reassuring, the cost of wind power can be seven to nine cents a Kilowatt hour.</I><BR/><BR/>We quote a range of 5.5-9.5 cents/kWh (without including the federal production tax credit). (The credit gives companies a tax break of 1.9 cents per kilowatt-hour for the electricity a wind project generates during the first 10 years of its operation.)<BR/><BR/><I>But usually the biggest problem with windmill emplacement is the location. Shoreline is prefferred because of the constant shore breeze. But this raises conflict with humans who do not want their beach views destroyed by all these efficient windmills.</I><BR/><BR/>Actually, the preferred location is onshore, somewhere in the "windy triangle" that extends from Minnesota to north Texas to Colorado and Wyoming. It contains roughly 1 million square miles (about 1/3 of the total U.S.). Many wind farms are being built there. The problem is building transmission lines to ship the electricity to where it can be sold, in large coastal cities. That is why wind companies are looking at sites in the mountains of the eastern U.S. or, in a few cases, offshore.<BR/><BR/>The U.S. wind resource is very large--enough to equal the country's entire electricity use several times over. If the tax credit--which expires at the end of 2007--is extended for several years, we will see much greater use of this clean energy resource.<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/>Thomas O. Gray<BR/>American Wind Energy Association<BR/><A HREF="http://www.awea.org" REL="nofollow">www.awea.org</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.ifnotwind.org" REL="nofollow">www.ifnotwind.org</A>Tom Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14728522824855808421noreply@blogger.com