How is wind energy going to create jobs?
Not including the green jobs the free market has already taken into account.
Wind energy costs 25% more than coal. In essence our energy productivity will go down by 25%.
Whenever has productivity going down created jobs?
Do not give me the foreign oil, the only time foreign oil is used in energy production is for peeker plants. Wind can not replace that.
As an engineer I like the idea of power and all kinds of power. Also as an engineer I can not see a more expensive means creating jobs.
The 25% more espensive is from my Mechanical ENgineering hand book.
One coal generator vs. about 10,000 for wind for the same power.
where to begin.
I am an engineer.
We wast more energy at night than we currently or probale ever will get from wind.
If you borrow money to put in a plant, the building of the plant is a net zero jobs. As jobs are eliminated from other areas as you pay that back.
Wind will take jobs away from other industries, raise your monthly rate, taking jobs away from other areas.
I never said I was against wind (although we should focus on storage first) I just asked how it would create jobs.
We can still make coal and Nuclear cheaper as well. It was not that long ago the guy designed the new hopper (funny shaped) that prevented cloggs.
Thunder B,
I have evidence from several engineering manual. The link ou produced neglects the energy wasted due to the fact the wind does not blow.
If wind was cheaper it would go in under private investment. And T BOONE pickens would not need money to get it going.
qris,
Productivity decreasing does not create jobs. It may increase the job for that industry, but that means it must cost more and decrease jobs elsewhere. If you it takes a plumber 2X as long as one, you will be out more on plumbing and less on other things.
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3 million people with jobs to blow really hard to turn the turbines?
Some one has to know how to make and maintain them. Materials are needed which will cause ripple effects for people to get different jobs.
Don’t get me wrong I am oppositional to this spending spree, but if they are going to pass it I am glad there are a few good things in there like that.
I find it hard to believe that wind is more expensive than coal. Prove me wrong if you wish.
Because by spending money on it now, we make the technology cheaper down the road.
By spending money on coal, we keep doing the same thing we’ve been doing.
You know, like the Republican senate wants us to do? They want 4 more years of the same.
No real new ideas at all. Except from Snow and Specter.
Wind energy is already creating jobs in Michigan where I am from, wind turbine manufacturing.
It won’t. And people tend to forget that even if it does create jobs, it is only offsetting the other industry jobs lost as a result. (remember his intent to bankrupt coal industry?)
Why do neocons get so upset that there are not enough hydrocarbons in the air we breathe?