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Eroie Van Tanstaafl on August 25, 2005 - 12:44pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Indeed - but wind gets cheaper every year, while gas and coal do not.  That's why it's growing so fast already and will keep on going.  Within 5 years the economics for wind will be accepted fact.  In ten years, wind will have at least 5% of the US market, and will keep growing like crazy.  Right now, installed capacity is doubling every two years!
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Stuart Staniford on August 26, 2005 - 1:04am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Wind is limited both by available sites and by the fact that it destabilizes the grid if there's too much of it because it's so unpredictable and uncontrollable. I think the utility people believe they can't take more than about 10% of the total in wind power. Note that it's current economics will tend to worsen in a post-peak world since the steel for the turbines won't be subsidized by being mined and smelted with cheap energy.
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