Why isn't there any wind energy in the deep south?

[Hurricanelover]

Why isn't there any wind farms in the deep south? There's tons of wind farms making up 20-70% of their energy in the midwest and plains, which includes places like texas that are all solid red, but literally none in Miss, alabama, LA, ky, tenn, ark and GA.

Is there any movement towards building large scale farms in these southeastern states?

 

[Hurricanelover]

Could a wind farm be built in the gulf of mexico to power these states?

 

[para bellum]

Maybe they like their electricity to be affordable and predictable?

 

[odanny]

Why isn't there any wind farms in the deep south?

Because this geographic location is a plague to the world.

 

[petro]

Easy.
There are more steady winds in the midwest and high plains.
Regardless, the wind farms are butt ugly on the landscape.
Solar in the northern states seems stupid as the panels are covered in snow for a good part of the year. No one cleans off acres of solar panels.
Most of the power in my area is generated by a nuke anyway.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Appalachistan don't need your environmentally disastrous bird killers

 

[lg325]

Why isn't there any wind farms in the deep south? There's tons of wind farms making up 20-70% of their energy in the midwest and plains, which includes places like texas that are all solid red, but literally none in Miss, alabama, LA, ky, tenn, ark and GA.

Is there any movement towards building large scale farms in these southeastern states?

Using ocean currents to generate electricity would be more practicle in the S.E. southern geographic area. Wind is more consistant in the plains states, it makes it more practicle there.

 

[progressive hunter]

Why isn't there any wind farms in the deep south? There's tons of wind farms making up 20-70% of their energy in the midwest and plains, which includes places like texas that are all solid red, but literally none in Miss, alabama, LA, ky, tenn, ark and GA.

Is there any movement towards building large scale farms in these southeastern states?

they are to busy hunting down groomers and pedos to feed the wood chippers to worry about some crazy idea to power cities thats proven to not work,,

 

[Batcat]

Easy.
There are more steady winds in the midwest and high plains.
Regardless, the wind farms are butt ugly on the landscape.
Solar in the northern states seems stupid as the panels are covered in snow for a good part of the year. No one cleans off acres of solar panels.
Most of the power in my area is generated by a nuke anyway.

Many days in the Florida Panhandle have little or no wind to speak of, Right now the wind at where I live is 5 mph.

How Much Wind Is Needed For Wind Turbines? - UtilitySmarts

How Much Wind Is Needed For Wind Turbines? Find out everything you need to know here.

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Wind turbines begin to generate power at roughly 6.7 mph (3 m/s) in most cases. A turbine’s nominal, or rated, power is achieved at speeds ranging from 26 to 30 mph (12 to 13 m/s); this amount is frequently used to characterize the turbine’s generating capability (or nameplate capacity).

To start generating, a conventional turbine needs wind speeds of around 10 miles (15 kilometers) per hour. The cut-in speed of a wind turbine is defined as the minimal wind velocity. To achieve the optimum results, a wind turbine should be installed in a location where the wind speed is consistently higher than the minimum cut-in speed before power is generated. Winds, on the other hand, are three-dimensional, and their features are heavily influenced by their elevation above and over the earth.

If you reside in a low-wind environment, you may need turbine blades with a larger surface area, which can be achieved by using several blades. The majority of commercial wind turbines have three blades, but employing a rotor with more than three blades will help catch more wind energy. However, increasing the blade’s surface area will increase the blade’s drag in the air at higher speeds, resulting in a substantially slower start-up or cut-in speed. Low-wind locations gain the most from multi-blade designs.

 

[progressive hunter]

Why isn't there any wind farms in the deep south? There's tons of wind farms making up 20-70% of their energy in the midwest and plains, which includes places like texas that are all solid red, but literally none in Miss, alabama, LA, ky, tenn, ark and GA.

Is there any movement towards building large scale farms in these southeastern states?

 

[lennypartiv]

There are train tracks going from WV to southern states, right?

 

[Doc7505]

Why isn't there any wind farms in the deep south? There's tons of wind farms making up 20-70% of their energy in the midwest and plains, which includes places like texas that are all solid red, but literally none in Miss, alabama, LA, ky, tenn, ark and GA.

Is there any movement towards building large scale farms in these southeastern states?

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Here in Nuth Carolina we use solar panel farms..... We leave you Yankee Crackurs to be propeller heads.

 

[surada]

Using ocean currents to generate electricity would be more practicle in the S.E. southern geographic area. Wind is more consistant in the plains states, it makes it more practicle there.

MIT had an experiment in the Bay of Fundy to use tidal action to create electricity...10-15 years ago.. the tides there are 30 feet.

 

[MarcATL]

Maybe they like their electricity to be affordable and predictable?

How Sway?

 

[elektra]

Could a wind farm be built in the gulf of mexico to power these states?

No, wind power is at best intermittent and non-existent largely, at night. We need real power to electrify industry, Wind and Solar can never ever provide more than just a tiny little bit of electricity, sometimes.

 

[elektra]

MIT had an experiment in the Bay of Fundy to use tidal action to create electricity...10-15 years ago.. the tides there are 30 feet.

Another stupid idea. A complete failure, from an economic standpoint.

 

[elektra]

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Here in Nuth Carolina we use solar panel farms..... We leave you Yankee Crackurs to be propeller heads.

Solar panels, another ridiculous idea.

There in North Carolina, you use Nuclear power.

 

[elektra]

Using ocean currents to generate electricity would be more practicle in the S.E. southern geographic area. Wind is more consistant in the plains states, it makes it more practicle there.

ocean currents? You realize water takes the path of least resistance, just like wind, both try to go around obstacles.

Either way, using ocean currents would be an environmental disaster and at best, you would be able power a light bulb.

 

[elektra]

Why isn't there any wind farms in the deep south? There's tons of wind farms making up 20-70% of their energy in the midwest and plains, which includes places like texas that are all solid red, but literally none in Miss, alabama, LA, ky, tenn, ark and GA.

Is there any movement towards building large scale farms in these southeastern states?

Why? Most likely because there is not large tracts of government parks, protected wilderness, to cover the south with useless Wind Turbines.

Why, because land in Texas is much cheaper, seeing how Texas is bigger than the entire south.

Why, because there are less corrupt politicians? Why, because they have not abandoned their current sources of power.

Georgia went Nuclear. Georgia's new nuclear power generation, surpasses all the green energy installed in the last ten years.

 

[1srelluc]

Why bother, they would just build another data mining center nearby and suck it all up.

Don't build it and they won't come.

I read just this morning that they are trying to build another data center in NOtVA.

It won't be long before some hard choices are going have to be made regarding data mining centers.