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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
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There are many areas in the U.S. where there are untapped wind resources. Also, due to the nature of the technology, you can mass-produce turbines as you would automobiles. Compare that to how ruinously expensive and long-term nuclear projects can be (not to mention how many of them get abandoned or indefinitely delayed for various reasons).
Worldwide, you are seeing a great increase in both private and public investment in wind power, and the reasons behind it are becoming clearer.
Canada, too, has many opportunities for increasing wind power output.
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It's true. I work for a natural gas distribution company, and we have a very active programme which is developing a windfarm out on the west coast (of Ontario) just north of Kincardine. This farm will have 110 Vestas turbines which will generate 181 MW of electricity.
We also just fired up a direct fuel cell - energy recovery generation (DFC-ERG) power plant in our parking lot. This fuel cell actually creates 2.2 MW of electricity by replacing the normal process for bringing cool natural gas up to temperature using an emmission free turbo expander process.
The energy produced is fed back into the electrical grid.
Both of these are done by a natural gas company. Just some thoughts on leveraging capabilities, infrastructure as well as government & corporate funds to seek alternatives.