CORRESPONDENCE
c o R R e s P o n D e n c e wind storage Far be it from me to tell T. Boone Pickens anything about the energy business (“Energy’s Prevailing Winds,” TAS, May 2008) but I must disagree...
...But it will never emerge as the result of unguided, small, random variations on some existing entity...
...In true Democrat fashion, as governor Carter had dithered over the route, causing completion of this needed highway to be delayed...
...This may seem a small thing...
...Bethell surely understands...
...In fact, when tax subsidies are added the ratepayers are paying three times for wind power...
...nAnCY Ann HOLTz Beverly, Massachusetts favorite son I got quite a chuckle reading Shawn Macomber’s article about his visit to Plains and seeing that old fraud, Jimmy Carter (“Plains Dealer,” TAS, March 2008...
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...Oh, Tom...
...I suggest that the misapplication of the concept of “evolution” leads to a misunderstanding both of evolution, and of the topic to which the concept is misapplied...
...A judiciary may be developed, implemented, adopted, adapted...
...c o R R e s P o n D e n c e wind storage Far be it from me to tell T. Boone Pickens anything about the energy business (“Energy’s Prevailing Winds,” TAS, May 2008) but I must disagree that wind power is a reliable source of energy—because it is not...
...Surely “devolution” would be a better word for the trajectory of a relationship that goes from amity to enmity...
...The counterargument is that oil, gas, and nuclear energy have been grotesquely sub8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R J u n e 2 0 0 8 sidized by the US government as well...
...Jimmy” may be worshipped by some in his Plains church, I wonder if many people in the community don’t have as low of view of him as do I. Back in the late ’70s when he was still president, I passed through Georgia on my way to Florida, and near the exit on I-75 where one would get off to make the drive to Plains someone had placed a sign in a field that read, “We the farmers of Georgia apologize to America for Jimmy Carter...
...It serves us well economically and environmentally to avoid this Rube Goldberg solution of burning fuel waiting for the wind to come and then burning fuel while we wait for the wind to end...
...What utilities and grid systems need to do, at great expense, is to have “spinning reserve” power plants, running on fossil fuels that are throttled down when windmills are producing and then throttled up when the wind stops so that consumers see only a seamless flow of power...
...I have found abuses of the word “evolve” in many other news stories...
...If we are going to have a meaningful discussion of evolution in our society, we need to protect the definition of the term...
...For a number of years I have been hoping that Israel, perhaps with our help, would be able to do something about Iran...
...There are 8,760 hours in a year and the power producing wind blows for less than 40 percent of those hours, much of it at night, and virtually none of it during July and August when electric power is most needed...
...guY PIAzzA Red Bank, New Jersey eretz Israel I am just as worried as Ben Stein is about the state of Israel (Ben Stein’s Diary, TAS, May 2008), the only country I visited twice when I was teaching overseas...
...But nobody seems willing to do anything...
...At the trailer park the lady c o R R e s P o n D e n c e who checked us in asked my dad how we found the traffic on US 41 north of Atlanta, where the final section of I-75 was yet to be finished...
...Not only will Barack Obama do nothing to help Israel should he become president, Hillary Clinton (famous for kissing the wife of Yassir Arafat) would do even less...
...Later on we reached southern Georgia, where we decided to pull off for the night and park our travel trailer...
...Filling the Midwest with windmills and transmission lines does not offer the best return for taxpayer dollars because we will pay three times for an unreliable power source and burn fossil fuels as well...
...It was a very dangerous section of highway that was very much in need of a freeway, and we told her the traffic was fairly bad...
...thus delaying the imple- pair ing analysis...
...While “Mr...
...You know better...
...Our current battery technology is very expensive, short-lived, and chemically toxic...
...When I was a child my family had many close Jewish friends, and during the late 1930s I was a teenager, reading the newspapers and crying over what was happening in Germany...
...Property and Its Discontents”) In contrast, if the development says about Russia, “…the country of a judiciary is “evolution,” does Kalaheo, Hawaii may reach a stage where law, property, and perhaps even an independent judiciary evolve...
...It didn’t sound like Jimmy was much beloved by the people who knew him best...
...Loose use of the word leads to confusion, im!"#$%&#'(%!'))#(*%+#(%#'(%*(##)!%,&%-#../0.%#0%*# J u n e 2 0 0 8 T H e a M e R I c a n s P e c T a T o R 9 CHARLes MeYRICk Fairfield, Connecticut...
...Aren’t they more likely to stand idly, waiting for the judiciary $$$1234(/567'))#(*!8#'13/that not obscure the reality of the theory, that organisms arise from undirected, random, small changes accumulating over vast periods of time...
...This never gets mentioned, but for every windmill, a fossil fuel plant needs to be made available, or built, to back it up and burn fuel, spewing CO2 into the atmosphere...
...In the March issue, Tom Bethell Mr...
...Wind and solar power would greatly benefit through efficient and low cost power storage—which the world sorely lacks...
...She then remarked, “You can thank Jimmy Carter for that...
...One of my favorites is one where a football player describes his friendship with another player “evolving” into animosity and physical confrontations...
...something which mentation of a judiciary...
...I would hope that if we decide to casually spend billions of hard earned tax dollars for a renewable but unreliable energy source, let us first spend the dollars to create the storage technology that will capture it efficiently and sell it at the time of peak demand when power prices are highest...
...In the immediate case: if people believe that a judiciary will “evolve,” what is their motivation to build a judiciary...
...America and the world need electrical power storage...
...The shipping industry got out of wind over 150 years ago because it was completely unreliable compared to the steam engine...
...One does not see clipper ships delivering goods to our ports, so why should we think that wind power can manage our 24/7 energy needs at this point in history...
Vol. 41 • June 2008 • No. 5
