Racmanaz Loc: Sunny Tucson!

So, why would a wannabe "Dictator"
(as Dems seem to claim about Trump) work to privatize everything??

idaholover Loc: Nampa ID

Obummer had a willing socialist congress

DennyT Loc: Central Missouri woods

I Have no idea - who knows what went they that grade school mind of his . But it was his ideA. Privatization is a supposedly to leverage Scarce funds. Ask military families how they like privatization.
Looks good to the bean counters but the forever contracts always benefits the private industry not the users

DennyT Loc: Central Missouri woods

So what ?and wasn’t it just his first two years not all 8.

idaholover Loc: Nampa ID

I asked my Navy vet daughter and lifer Army husband what they think of government health care and they say it sucks

DennyT Loc: Central Missouri woods

He does not know , just pulled a number out of context like say there was. 2030 msfstrvto be completely ICE

But .1.2 acres probably accurate.
Those blades are right at 300 ft and an acre bus only 208x208

Wuligal Loc: Slippery Rock, Pa.

Some industry sources quote that a wind farm typically requires between 2 to 40 acres per megawatt of capacity, depending on a variety of factors. Open, flat terrain requires the most land, but only a very small amount of that land is used for turbines and associated infrastructure, such as access roads. The remainder is available for other uses, such as farming or ranching. A standard rule of thumb is that turbines should be spaced in a 5D x 10D grid, with D = diameter of rotor. As an example, for a GE 1.6 MW turbine with an 82.5 m rotor, that gives a little over 50 acres per MW. More recent research suggests that vertical wind turbines may be placed much more closely together so long as they are sited strategically to take advantage of downwind turbulance from neighboring turbines.

A 2009 report from the NREL studied land area uses for operating US wind farms and provided data showing that average area densities ranged from about 1 MW/sqkm to 8 MW/sqkm. Converted to acres per MW this range is about 30-250, wihich shows that the rule of thumb grid spacing falls within, but at the lower end of this range. It would also indicate that there hasn't been a strong incentive in the past to minimize spacing of turbines.

thom w Loc: San Jose, CA

Thank you. Some references or links would have been nice, not because I doubt you, because I don't, but so I could follow them. Still, thank you.

Bob Smith Loc: Banjarmasin

As any ex power plant engineer will tell you nuclear is the only answer France has used nuclear power for many years. Renewables are notoriously unreliable and baseload consistency is a must which can only be environmentally done by nuclear. Modern materials and designs make nuclear much safer and the past problems mainly because designs were done in the fifties and sixties are engineered out.

letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

Hi