Despite the overheated claims of Windbaggers that wind farms are an unwanted eyesore, actual research continues to show that wind turbines have no impact on property values.
Recent news from Atlantic City indicates that wind turbines there have become a tourist attraction.
ATLANTIC CITY – The 32-story turbines of the Jersey-Atlantic Wind Farm have so dramatically changed Atlantic City’s skyline – perhaps more than any casino could – that tourists haven’t stopped asking questions about them since they went up five years ago along a back-bay salt marsh.
Some casino hotel guests are so fascinated that they ask for rooms with a view of the five delicate fans, resort operators say.
But will they do *more* than be a tourist draw and energy toy, and actually form baseload electricity that shuts down coal? We need *more* than energy toys that make the owners money off local ETS. We need *more* than a bit of extra peaking power, no matter how much fun it might be to get that from wind. We need *more* than talk and trinkets. We need grunty gigawatts of reliable, load-following baseload power, and you only get that from nukes.
Professor Ted Trainer and Professor Barry Books are both keen environmental scientists following energy trends. Ted hates nukes, but then he seems to want us to return to an ultra-localised anarchic medieval society.
Barry loves the modern world, but even as head of climate at Adelaide University he admits wind can’t do the job. We need those GenIV nukes!
definitely put in a request for some Gen IV nukes.
Let me know when they’re ready.
Awesome. I’m glad you’re not against them in principle. The commercialization prototypes (as opposed to the research prototoypes) look almost ready to fly.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Prototype_Prism_proposed_for_Savannah_River-2810104.html