The following text is from an article at the BBC site.
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')As part of the BBC's Fuelling The Future series, Max Seitz went to southern Chubut province, where wind energy is making life easier for a number of isolated communities, many of them home to indigenous peoples.
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The social impact the technology has had on the communities has helped to integrate them more.
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We no longer have to buy kerosene or gas-oil. It works out cheaper for us.
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Electricity-Wind-Oil: The Patagonia experience
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Electricity-Wind-Oil: The Patagonia experience
by EnergySpin » Mon 13 Feb 2006, 04:45:26
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Food for thought ... various peak oil/luddite/we-are-screwed assumptions can be examined from a different perspective after reading this article.
Minor detail: Patagonia is one of the few places in the world where wind blows almost all the time so they can almost get away with storage or baseload.
"Nuclear power has long been to the Left what embryonic-stem-cell research is to the Right--irredeemably wrong and a signifier of moral weakness."Esquire Magazine,12/05
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Re: Electricity-Wind-Oil: The Patagonia experience
by eric_b » Tue 14 Feb 2006, 12:41:52
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Minor detail: Patagonia is one of the few places in the world where wind blows almost all the time so they can almost get away with storage or baseload.
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Minor detail: Patagonia is one of the few places in the world where wind blows almost all the time so they can almost get away with storage or baseload.
Uh, I wouldn't consider that a minor detail.
Using Patagonia as an example for wind power is about as unbiased as
referring to the Australian outback as an example of what PV is capable of.
There isn't much land in the SH below about 40 degrees south. The uninterrupted
fetch of of ocean in the roaring 40's and 50's means that Patagonia is blessed
(or cursed) with consistent strong winds. This extends all way down to the
storm lashed Tierra del Fuego and the notorious strait of Magellan, which
has claimed many craft and is so stormy and dangerous it was the major
driving force for the creation of the Panama Canal (not a trivial engineering
feat at the time of its creation).
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Re: Electricity-Wind-Oil: The Patagonia experience
by EnergySpin » Tue 14 Feb 2006, 13:52:38
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Minor detail: Patagonia is one of the few places in the world where wind blows almost all the time so they can almost get away with storage or baseload.
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Minor detail: Patagonia is one of the few places in the world where wind blows almost all the time so they can almost get away with storage or baseload.
Uh, I wouldn't consider that a minor detail.
LOL, I was being ironic (and should have used quotes). I wanted to avoid people saying: "see we don't need nukes" after reading the news feed.
Still the global wind potential (80TW x 0.25 capacity factor) is there to do all sorts of stuff.
"Nuclear power has long been to the Left what embryonic-stem-cell research is to the Right--irredeemably wrong and a signifier of moral weakness."Esquire Magazine,12/05
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