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The most successful of Reno's windmill is located in an area that has an average windspeed of 2.3 mile per hour. Perhaps this isn't the best location to determine the success or failure of wind generated electricity. Would you claim solar power to be a failure if you placed a solar cell in an area that receives no light?
In your original post, you claim that these applications are as you put it "clearly unsustainable". The city is currently saving $1.1 million a year which is for the most part on par with their 15 year plan to pay off the $20 million dollar investment using cost savings.
These are emerging technologies. Their energy output will naturally improve with time and investment. Plus look at the alternatives and their costs. What do you think is the initial investment cost to build a refinery, a nuclear plant or a hydroelectric plant? Let alone the unrealized health and environmental costs.
Plus the link on LED technology you posted is from 2008. Someone has actually won that prize and LED is currently a viable alternative, which is to this day still improving.
- This is just one example of ongoing improvements in LED tech... http://reefbuilders.…IRNlun6
- There's amazing technological advancement happening right now.IRNlun6
- Don't let politics turn you into a modern day luddite.IRNlun6
- i actually like technology. nasa is the one gov program i have a soft spot fordeathboy