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RE: Wind Power?

Comment comment by NomadSoul on 31 January 2008

I think as we move into the future, we'll find that there's no one source of power that will work for all areas at all times. Instead, a mix of power sources will reduce environmental impacts as well as add redundancy in case one source fails.

The big problem is when we try to apply a single solution in a large-scale, centralized way. Instead of huge wind-farms, we could put a small windmill and a solar panel on every house, with perhaps smaller centralized facilities to take advantage of favorable environments for wind, solar, tidal, and geothermal power. If we mix that with energy-efficient architecture, we could gradually ween ourselves away from non-renewable fuels.

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Small, Scattered Distribution by gnifyus :: NR7

This smaller scale distributed model can especially apply in the case of nuclear energy. Instead of building gigantic plants that are next to impossible to cool and manage; why not have many smaller generation plants that tie into the same grid? The only issue I see with this is that it would probably be harder to keep the nuclear materials secure from theft.

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