Posted by
Far_view on Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:36:54 PM
I've been on a road trip to the Northwest and thought I'd make some
observations. On the drive up here, I went past three or four wind
farms and at each of them there were only, at best, 30% of the turbines
going. Is that typical? I think from past observations driving past
these things that it is. So how efficient is that? So much for wind
power. We ought to be building nukes instead.
My destination was
Winthrop, Washington on the east side of the Cascades. The weather is
rather chilly here and the folks here have been telling me how late
their Spring has been in arriving. Also, I was informed that the snow
pack was greater than normal with the consequence that the mountain
glaciers are building up again (for the second winter in a row). So I
don't know that two years make a definitive trend, but this is
definitely different from what the "global warming" obsessed media
likes to report on.