Why natural gas and wind turbines?
Thursday, May 13th, 2010 at
7:29 pm
Since I have told about natural gas, and watching the commercials covering natural gas, I have been thinking(which still hurts at times)about this:
1)If we increase the use of natural gas will the price not go up for this commodity?
2)How would we supply all of the states in the United States since this gas remains unstable during shipment? Most of the natural gas is piped.
3)If wind is calm during specific days for the wind turbines, would we not fall back onto natural gas for electricity thus spiking the price short term for the natural gas and electricity?
I wish I had the answers…………..
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I think the Pickens Plan is fine as long as he’s not asking for a bunch of government hand outs. The government should limit it’s funding to basic research in promising energy technology and then let companies take that technology to develop systems that can supply cheap clean energy to the american public.
I’d be willing to bet that T Boone Pickens (the guy paying for all those commercials) probably has tons of stock in natural gas and wind turbine power.
There are plenty of flaws with the Pickens Plan. We must not rely on one fuel source. We need a variety to foster competition and keep prices low and technology advancing.
1). Probably, but America has a lot of it.
2). We have a lot of pipelines already in many parts of the US because a lot of homes are heated with natural gas and/or you cook with it – anyway, it comes right up into a lot of homes already, so there’s a decent amount of infrastructure existing (although not so much in the northeast). I use a pump at a regular gas station where I live in Utah and pay just 87 cents per gallon for it to fill up my cars, which run on natural gas instead of gasoline. My breaking point was when gasoline hit $3.00 a gallon last year. Ford made a few natural gas cars and trucks back in the late 1990′s through 2004, so I went for it. No regrets!
3). Yes, we’d have to have a fall-back position, but some places are very windy a lot, so those would free up other means of generating electricity for the not-so-windy places. It’s just an alternative, not a full-blown solution. I like the T. Boone Pickens Plan, and nobody else seems to be trying anything else or coming up with anything better, so hey, you have to start somewhere. There are other countries that are way ahead of us on this, so it’s kind of embarrassing to be whining about "needing" more oil. It’s just a type of fuel, and my cars don’t need it to get me from point A to Point B. Nobody’s should. I wish everybody had natural gas cars. Check out my sources and see if one would work for you.