Comments on: Weather http://iowa.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:15:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: 4TimesAYear http://iowa.com/ilive/iowa-weather/comment-page-1/#comment-2958 4TimesAYear Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:52:50 +0000 http://iowa.com/?page_id=1481#comment-2958 The energy from these things doesn't stay here. It doesn't make sense to put them up in Iowa and ship the energy to CA and other states. There are more and more stories about gearbox failure, fires, collapses, etc. Another problem is that the wind doesn't blow all the time; since these are considered an expansion of the grid, they have to have the power ready to back them up when the wind doesn't blow - which means burning more fossil fuel "just in case". The energy from these things doesn’t stay here. It doesn’t make sense to put them up in Iowa and ship the energy to CA and other states. There are more and more stories about gearbox failure, fires, collapses, etc. Another problem is that the wind doesn’t blow all the time; since these are considered an expansion of the grid, they have to have the power ready to back them up when the wind doesn’t blow – which means burning more fossil fuel “just in case”.

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]]> By: 4TimesAYear http://iowa.com/ilive/iowa-weather/comment-page-1/#comment-259 4TimesAYear Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:24:10 +0000 http://iowa.com/?page_id=1481#comment-259 "Des Moines, located in central Iowa, has a normal daily maximum temperature of 86° F (30°C) in July and a normal daily minimum of 10°F (-4°C) in January" Can you guess which extreme would cause us to burn more fossil fuel? The recommended setting for the thermostat in winter is 68. The recommended setting in summer is 78. The larger the temperature difference, the more CO2 will be produced. Also, in the winter we produce more CO2 by having to clear vast numbers of parkinglots, runways, city streets, rural roads, highways and interstates every time it snows. It would seem global warming would help us reduce CO2 emissions and solve the CO2 problem (if there is an correlation to begin with) “Des Moines, located in central Iowa, has a normal daily maximum temperature of 86° F (30°C) in July and a normal daily minimum of 10°F (-4°C) in January”

Can you guess which extreme would cause us to burn more fossil fuel?
The recommended setting for the thermostat in winter is 68. The recommended setting in summer is 78. The larger the temperature difference, the more CO2 will be produced. Also, in the winter we produce more CO2 by having to clear vast numbers of parkinglots, runways, city streets, rural roads, highways and interstates every time it snows. It would seem global warming would help us reduce CO2 emissions and solve the CO2 problem (if there is an correlation to begin with)

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