Chinese To Supply 600 MW Wind Farm In Texas 453
Hugh Pickens sends in a Wall Street Journal report that Chinese banks will provide $1.5B to a consortium of Chinese and American companies to build a 600-megawatt wind farm in West Texas, using turbines made in China. The wind farm will be built on 36,000 acres, and will use 240 2.5-megawatt turbines, providing enough power to meet the electrical needs of around 150,000 American homes. The project will be the first instance of a Chinese manufacturer exporting wind turbines to the United States. China aims to be the front-runner in wind- and solar-power generation "The Obama administration is hoping a shift to renewable energy will inject new life into the US manufacturing base and provide high-paying jobs, making up for losses in other sectors. But while the US has poured money into renewable energy through tax credits and other subsidies, China has positioned itself to reap many of the benefits by ramping up its export machine."
*HUGH* Pickens? (Score:4, Funny)
What does Mr. Horse think? (Score:5, Funny)
"No sir, I don't like it!"
Re:How is that sustainable? (Score:5, Funny)
I suggest they use an 8x8 grid pattern as the basic city layout. Then, you can put a 20MW turbine in each corner and power all the houses within each block. The turbines themselves only take up a single block, so you still get 60 blocks of high density residential zoning with no pollution at all.
The alternative (and better choice) is to terraform a small area away from the city. By raising the level of the land and encouraging waterfalls, you can build a very efficient hydroelectric power farm that generates no pollution and never breaks down.
Nuclear fission has its related pollution problems. Fusion plants don't last longer than 50 years. Wind power is pretty inefficient as far as power generation goes. But Hydroelectric is built to last and has a great price/output ratio over the life of the plant.
Re:The US should control the technolog (Score:1, Funny)
I'm pretty sure the complaint could be boiled down to a couple key points, one of them being "Dey took our jerbs".
Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Argh! (Score:2, Funny)
The US isn't grossly uncompetitive, but there will be a tough few decade period when China's standard of living catches up with the current (year 2009) standard of living in the US. It's reasonable to cut back on the socialist crap until there's no serious labor competition out there any more.
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Re:How is that sustainable? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How is that sustainable? (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nSB1SdVHqQ [youtube.com]
Re:How is that sustainable? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:We can't even compete for THIS!? (Score:3, Funny)
TFA stated this was a Chinease/American company based in the USA making the turbines... They will not be imported cheap chinease crap
Is that an enzyme to digest East Asians?
Re:How is that sustainable? (Score:4, Funny)
They are ferocious giants!!!
Sancho! Give me my lance!