Danish Goal: 50% of Electricity from Wind

tres3 writes "The Danes have an ambitious plan of producing 50% of their national electrical needs from wind by 2030. The website has tutorials on everything related to wind energy you can imagine. The index gives you an idea of the detail of the site. It includes land and sea wind turbines as well as details about the machinery needed and where to locate it. There are over 100 pages so I didn't link to them all. [ed. note: thanks] A picture says it all."

such a bad idea...

[TWX_the_Linux_Zealot]

this idea blows...

Rotational Pollution

[Tablizer]

The rotational pollution caused by windmills is unacceptable! The rotational energy will throw the rotational axis of the Earth out of kilter, and penguins will be in Equidor within hundreds of years. Sure, Linux fans will love that, but I don't think Equidorians could harvest their frozen bananas that way.

Stop this nonsense, it is killing our planet's life! Save the poles!

Re:Total Annihilation??

[Russ Steffen]

Just wait until they get the cloaked fusion reactors up, and the battery of Big Berthas running. Then it's time to duck and cover.

Re:Rotational Pollution

[DNS-and-BIND]

They're certainly going to pollute the visual enviroment, as well as shred birds and insects by the hundredweight.

Re:Ireland

[Tablizer]

Ireland also plans to get 10% of their power by wind.

Scottland tried it too, but when they got near windy spots to start construction, the wind kept lifting up their kilts Marlyn-Monroe-style.

All they need is Jon Katz

[Anonymous Coward]

He provides all the wind they need in Denmark...

Re:A novel goal.

[dduck]

The figure is correct. Denmark is a very small (and very densly populated) country, with just over 5 million inhabitants. And yes, there are certaintly cities larger than that.

There are also countries much smaller that Denmark. Luxemburg springs to mind...

Please don't feel bad about being confused about our small nations. We - inversely - tend to get confused about the myriad of world-dominating, corrupt and arrogant major nations, who are ruled by capitalist oligarchies, and show a (to us)... shall we say SLIGHTLY relaxed attitude towards getting small details (such as major national elections) right ;)

I was working on extracting energy from. . .

[kfg]

the vacuum, but as it turns out that idea sucked.

My carpet is clean and fresh though.

So instead I started working on transportation. I figured out a way to travel between NY City and LA for free. Just build a big tube between them, LA Sucks and NYC blows. It only works one way though, so that idea was down the tube.

Let's face it, all of my ideas just seem to break like the wind.

KFG

Re:If Ireland can do this, why not the US?

[Anonymous DWord]

Because if the US didn't pollute so much, everybody else would have nothing to do.