DOE Report: Wind Could Power 20 Percent of US Grid by 2030 »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 months, 2 weeks agoA new report from the Department of Energy claims that wind turbines could generate 300 gigawatts by 2030, which would power about 20 percent of the US electrical grid.
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kboy3 months, 2 weeks ago
I sure would like to have some of the stuff they are smoking while they were writing this report. Windmills only generate power 28 percent of the time. A farm of windmills all work around the same time and stop around the same time. This makes it almost impossible (as Texas just found) to keep the grid stable without a tremendous amount of standby generators. Maybe they figured on the politicians standing in front of the windmills and talking all the time.
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