Thread: Wind power? Anybody skeptical?

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Several days ago, after going on Pickens' website http://push.pickensplan.com/ , I posted a thread expressing my distaste of his lining his pockets with this plan.

I can visualize Mr. Pickens and a few other "good ole boys" sittin' around one evening talking about how to turn their natural gas options into money. This looks to me like a solution that could have come from such a round table discussion.

He has stated publicly that he considers windmills ugly and will not have them on his property. What kind of statement is that to make if you're trying to push them off on others?

It's absolutely true that we must act to do something, but I'm not convinced that this is the answer. At least not after learning that windmills will produce energy less than 10% of the time when it is needed.

Windmills are great and work well in the proper areas......the people who are associated with them not soo great.
I am with Tech on the round table talks.........Thats how them bastages plot and ploy to get the most share of our money possible making it exspensive unrealistic to do,its not a cure all by any means ,but a good suppliment,the windmills that is,not the bastages.

We have lots of wind mills on the Altimont Pass in the East bay. When ever I go thru there, probably only 25% are spinning. It's very windy there! Not sure how well they do in massive quantities?
Another source of power that people have talked about for decades is hydro power from wave action in the oceans. I haven't heard anything recently about this, but it is also a promissing alternative.

I googled the tidal power and came up with this facinating wealth of info if anyone is interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power
And more specifically here is a sea generator that is currently being hooked up to the UK grid
http://www.seageneration.co.uk/default.asp