Wind Turbines could potentially provide more than 50% of the world's power
needs,
but their costs and impacts are too high, and their payback too slow, at
present. [PCR]
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What is the Potential?
More than anyone realizes. Wind blows over 100% of the Earth. Its
power far exceeds what fossil fuel burning can produce in the long term
-- the megawatts of AC electricity that could come from wind harvesters
strategically spread over the globe is simply staggering. Our own calculations,
using very conservative figures, reveal the shocking truth: Wind
power alone could easily provide the world's total energy needs. Wind
turbines convert that energy into the right AC power usable immediately
on electricity grids, in our homes and in offices. In a single blow,
it could solve the serious global greenhouse-gas pollution crisis that
we face today. Wind could supply all of our power needs for many decades.
e.g. --
Click Here to see how all the U.K.'s needs can be supplied by wind. |
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So, what is wrong?
Today's massive, monolithic turbines can only harness a tiny wisp of all
available wind power -- less than one millionth of one percent has been
tapped so far. Today's huge turbines are only feasible where strong winds
blow most of the time (<1% of any continent). They are also too
expensive -- a $1-2 billion cost for a typical wind farm is daunting, even
for big energy companies, and simply not affordable by smaller ones. Wind
farm paybacks and cost per KW are overrated, by not factoring in technologic
obsolescence. But most of all, it is unrealistic to think we can
deploy enough wind farms across a country to seriously cut our CO2 pollution rates. It will take decades.
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Impacts
Three other serious problems in having wind farms everywhere --
 Unsightly in big numbers (left, in Tehachapi, Ca, wind capital of the U.S.
they are a blight on the land).
Kill birds, impact people, wildlife, and degrade our environments.
Alter the climate, negating some benefit of reduced global warming.
Notwithstanding the advantages, big wind turbines are too unsightly, and
degrade our ecology too much to spread wind farms en masse everywhere across our continents. |
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Change Must Be in our Future
The statistics at right and below show that the U.S. uses far too much
of the global Energy quota for its population size, and is too dependent
on fossil fuels for a secure future. If we are to have any hope of
providing future generations with a livable, viable planet, we must change
from an extravagant 86% fossil fuel consumption to less than 40%, very
soon.
The fact that only 1/1000th of our energy is supplied by wind turbines
is the biggest U.S. oversight that needs to be corrected ASAP, because
wind has by far the best potential for rapid expansion of all currently
"minor" U.S. energy sources. Europe has only 1/5th the
land area we do, yet produces almost 5 times more power from wind than
we do. The U.S. has the land, wind and resources to be a world leader in
slashing fossil fuel use, by rapidly expanding our wind-generated power
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U.S. Energy Sources
| Fossil Fuels |
85.0% |
| Nuclear |
8.0% |
| Biofuels |
3.5% |
| Hydroelectric |
2.0% |
| Geothermal |
0.5% |
| Wind Farms |
0.5% |
| Solar |
0.5% |
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World Energy Consumption
| Country |
% usage |
% populn |
| U. S. A. |
25.0% |
4.6% |
| W. Europe |
17.5% |
7.2% |
| China |
9.9% |
21.2% |
| Russia |
7.0% |
2.5% |
| E. Europe |
7.0% |
4.4% |
| L. America |
6.3% |
8.4% |
| Japan |
5.9% |
2.1% |
| M. East |
4.6% |
3.7% |
| Africa |
3.3% |
13.0% |
| India |
3.1% |
16.6% |
| Canada |
3.2% |
0.5% |
| Oceania |
2.0% |
0.7% |
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The Wind Power Dilemma
The six biggest world energy consumers (left) possess vast countries, totalling
2/3 of Earth's land area. Total wind power depends on land available, so
clearly the onus falls on "big" countries to be wind-power leaders.
The biggest onus is on the U.S. to correct its excessively imbalanced power
consumption.
But the U.S. government and energy industries are not doing enough to harness
wind power. They lag behind Europe, and have committed too little resources
to developing new wind power. They are ripe for a big change in size and
technology.
With a blade span as big as a 747 jumbo jet, standing 325 feet tall, weighing
165 tons, and costing $3.2 million each, today's wind turbine monoliths
are far too monstrous to be efficiently deployable across any country.
Like dinosaurs that grew too big to be competitive, efficient, or survive,
today's wind turbines have reached absurd sizes that are a construction
nightmare, an ecological disaster, and a costly species facing extinction?
Leading experts know -- the visual-environmental impacts and inefficiency
of today's turbines have reached tolerance levels. What will replace them
-- indeed, what must replace them? |
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A Quantum Leap Needed
Wind power has evolved from old windmills of American and Dutch heritages, into huge 3-blade monsters producing 2 Mwatts each, but only in 5% ideal conditions. For wind to be a mainstream power source all the time the wind blows, wind turbines must be made more efficient and able to work at all wind speeds. The jet engine turbine (below) is a pinnacle of power efficiency for airplanes. We need the same efficiency in wind turbines. Consider these facts --
 Wind power realistically could supply 50% of our energy needs.
Today's turbines prove this power can be harnessed as electricity,
even if their cost effectiveness and paybacks have been overrated.
Wind technology is the single greatest "fast-track" solution
to our greenhouse-gas dilemma, and to minimizing the U.S.'s dependence
on Middle East oil. Nothing else, not even nuclear, comes close.
Wind technology needs a quantum leap -- to be converted to a cost-
efficient solution that can be deployed across a continent, without the
visual, environmental and ecological impacts -- as well as the huge up-front
expense -- of the current massive wind turbine farms.
So the highest priority is to formulate newer, more efficient designs that will satisfy (1) people appeal, (2) environmental and ecological concerns, and (3) create a low-cost entry for utility companies to gain the "leading edge". New and efficient, practical wind turbine designs that integrate into our environment and budgets, without seriously impacting people or utility companies -- an innovative technology to allow everyone to "ease into" it without massive up-front expense -- that is what every utility company needs to become a winner! |
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2003 Wind Power
| Country |
MWatts |
| Germany |
12001 |
| Spain-Portugal |
5024 |
| U.S.A. |
4645 |
| Denmark |
2889 |
| India |
1702 |
| Italy-France |
932 |
| Nethl-Belgium |
732 |
| U.K.- Ireland |
689 |
| China |
468 |
| Scandinavia |
466 |
| Japan |
384 |
| Greece |
302 |
| Canada |
236 |
| Austria-Poland |
197 |
| Australia-N.Z. |
140 |
| Egypt-Morocco |
123 |
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We have the Solution!
PC Research has formulated a totally new concept / design / implementation of an
exciting new "Sustainable Energy Device " that satisfies all those public needs and environmental concerns
listed above. Our S.E.D. has none of the disadvantages of typical
propeller wind turbines, and isn't slave to blowing wind. Our new device
takes full advantage of all crucial sustainable and renewable energy sources
in the natural environment. It is exactly the innovation needed to bring sustainable power to the forefront of every
Utility Company's top agenda, and into the limelight with governments and
countries world wide. It is the solution that everyone needs right now to quickly move us all away from fossil-fuel
dependency. |
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Utility Companies -- Get on the Fast Track
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More Reading?
If you are unfamiliar with the problems and major negative impacts of today's massive wind turbines,
read this article.
While some of its claims are realistic for today's huge turbines, our new
technologic innovation under development overcomes all of the problems
and impacts listed in that article. |
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