Comments on: Nobel laureate: Wind is not the future

One of the world's leading physicists warns that wind energy is a waste of resources and that solar energy should be the focus.

[sitaifun]

Of course wind power can be stored: as electricity in batteries, as compressed air in caves, or even as potential energy in suspended mass (utilize gravity later to employ) or coiled springs for that matter. Analyze environmental impact, efficiency, maintenance requirements, etc. to determine what may be commercially feasible. But of course you can "store wind power".

[Grigsby_51]

Nuke is the way to go. Lowest pollution and footprint and cost effective.

[joad2]

wind could be a supplement for sure, on a small scale....but solar is the way to go...way less intrusive on the landscape and getting better as the technology advances.

[IcedMocha]

Where's Manhattan2 ? He's always popping up with some vague assertion that Solar, Wind, Geothermal, etc are all inefficient and old-fashioned means of energy production. He's also a flim-flam artist waiting for just the right "time" to pitch his scam. Be on the look out everyone, the scam is coming . . .!

[fsilber-2009]

A solar energy facility in the Sahara will merely re-create the same problem we've had with oil since 1973 -- dependence upon countries that have evil politics. We need a solution that will leave the people who are sympathetic to the goals of Al Kaeda dependent upon us for their very lives. That means getting off oil and staying off of anything produced in those countries.

[ttrenaissance]

There are Storage Systems for Wind, its called a MAGNETIC LEVITATION FLYWHEEL ASSEMBLY and is easily deployed. The way it works is excess energy is stored when the wind blows by converting it to rotational energy which virtually never depletes as the magnetic flywheel spins virtually frictionless. When power is needed some of the rotational energy is tapped to generate electricity.

We Need Solar,

We Need Wind,

We Need Geothermal,

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