<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for A study says the world’s wind alone could meet its energy needs; the Senate disagrees.]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/a-lot-of-hot-air/ Wed, 18 May 2005 05:18:03 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/a-lot-of-hot-air/1 Wind, a very small footprint on planet earth.

30,000 20 megawatt continuous equivalent rated wind machines would provide all the electric power now generated in the US.

Each wind machine would take up aproximately   2500 aquare feet for the tower footprint.  Wildlife, crops, or cows could do fine underneath the blades.

That uses a total land area less than 3 square miles.  Less than .0001 percent of the US land area?

How much land, groundwater, and air in square miles have the fossil and nuclear industries occupied, polluted, and destroyed.  

Through generating plants, mines, wells, pipelines,refineries, waste sities, processing facilities....thousands of sites all over the US, leaking into air and groundwater at exponential rates of expansion.

]]> Wind, a very small footprint on planet earth.

30,000 20 megawatt continuous equivalent rated wind machines would provide all the electric power now generated in the US.

Each wind machine would take up aproximately   2500 aquare feet for the tower footprint.  Wildlife, crops, or cows could do fine underneath the blades.

That uses a total land area less than 3 square miles.  Less than .0001 percent of the US land area?

How much land, groundwater, and air in square miles have the fossil and nuclear industries occupied, polluted, and destroyed.  

Through generating plants, mines, wells, pipelines,refineries, waste sities, processing facilities....thousands of sites all over the US, leaking into air and groundwater at exponential rates of expansion.

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