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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 25-May-2009 At 9:08:28 AM R James

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Great to reduce demand, but realistically it's not going to happen. Population is increasing faster than reductions could be made. All these government commitments for reducing power usage are fairyland stuff.

I saw a huge windfarm in Egypt recently - hundreds of turbines. Too bad not one was turning. I did some research, and found that they do get reasonable wind for a lot of the time. Unfortunately it's not all the time. Electricity price would need to increase by 250% for it to become financially attractive, and then it can only be a supplement to the main power supply. http://www.exportinitiative.de/media/article005796/15%20Oman.pdf

In the UK 2007 - 2008 taxpayers coughed up $1 billion dollars subsidy for wind turbines. Solar and wind offer little hope for the level of power needed.