tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post666830537506253709..comments2023-10-10T10:50:56.735+02:00Comments on Inanities: A load of hot airSarah Carrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02146943046266549277noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-13305252741034022922007-12-01T03:36:00.000+02:002007-12-01T03:36:00.000+02:00original link I posted: http://kminer.net/gallery....original link I posted: http://kminer.net/gallery.html#perpmotion<BR/><BR/>if you prefer (a lesser quality) <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvRzWYCZ2e0" REL="nofollow">youtube</A> link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvRzWYCZ2e0Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-77631735157952213272007-11-30T13:23:00.000+02:002007-11-30T13:23:00.000+02:00What you read is either out of context or misleadi...What you read is either out of context or misleading. Speaking in absolute terms, on-shore wind power costs 7 cents/KWh, much less in a place like Zaafarana, and off-shore wind economics is even better than that. If you take a look at the trends, a good indication for where investment should go, wind has been growing more competitive for the past 20 years, while fossil fuels have been becoming more and more expensive.<BR/><BR/>Coming to Egypt, the problem is not the technology or the economics of renewables--anything is simpler than a reactor!--rather related to law and policy. Renewables are competing in a market that is not level. The government favors big investments than distributed, local investments as an ideology, and is asking renewables to compete against subsidized fossil fuels, although this is ending soon.<BR/><BR/>You would face problems in Egypt if you try to break away from the grid.AGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01485224023447278984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-13176468107006029512007-11-30T10:50:00.000+02:002007-11-30T10:50:00.000+02:00Seneferu, Amr: I did read thought that windpower i...Seneferu, Amr: I did read thought that windpower is expensive...Which might be used as an excuse for not using it.<BR/><BR/>Yes, it was super windy where I was, and I spent most of my time there trying to stay vertical.<BR/><BR/>Zoss: Am having trouble opening link. Could you write it, rather than hyperlinking it, please?Scarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08000921519899599070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-11295521047724402392007-11-27T08:14:00.000+02:002007-11-27T08:14:00.000+02:00No need for alternative sources of energy -- scien...No need for alternative sources of energy -- scientists have fashioned a <A HREF="http://kminer.net/gallery.html#perpmotion" REL="nofollow">perpetual motion machine</A> using cats and jelly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-53685555882505974542007-11-26T18:05:00.000+02:002007-11-26T18:05:00.000+02:00You were actually standing on the one strip of lan...You were actually standing on the <A HREF="http://gharbeia.net/node/138" REL="nofollow">one strip of land on this planet most suitable for harvesting wind energy</A>. With 11 meters/second, the economics of already-competitive wind energy is so tempting in Zaafarana.<BR/><BR/>I see the only hindrance for a full-blown change of our energy scheme towards renwables is only legal and political. Egypt's potential with wind and concentrated solar thermal powers, <A HREF="http://gharbeia.net/EgyptConcentratedSolarPower" REL="nofollow">also near Zaafarana</A> can do us more good this century than oil did the one before.<BR/><BR/>And I won't start on the expensive and dirty nukes now. Grrr.AGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01485224023447278984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35137734.post-37162434697486430102007-11-26T17:32:00.000+02:002007-11-26T17:32:00.000+02:00Sorry Amnesiac,Allow me to tap into your blog’s re...Sorry Amnesiac,<BR/><BR/>Allow me to tap into your blog’s renewable source of readership and plug in <A HREF="http://seneferu.blogspot.com/2007/11/nay-to-nuclear-egypt.html" REL="nofollow">my related post</A> since I have positively depleted mine. Feedback would be welcome. <BR/><BR/>I just hope that the nuclear option is being adopted as a last choice after examining serious studies of alternative wind and solar energy options that we may have, and is not being taken for any political considerations that I touch upon in my admittedly cynical post.Seneferuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06156245757294970589noreply@blogger.com