Comments on: Wind Power Economics http://www.murkyview.com/archives/2006/03/13/wind-power-economics/ Perspectives on Media, Climate, Energy, Politics... in Port Alberni, BC, Canada, the World Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:51:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: chrisale http://www.murkyview.com/archives/2006/03/13/wind-power-economics/comment-page-1/#comment-4861 chrisale Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:39:35 +0000 http://www.murkyview.com/archives/2006/03/13/wind-power-economics/#comment-4861 Environment Canada announced a few days ago (it was on the CBC, can't find it right now of course)... that the December 2005 - February 2006 timeframe was above average across Canada, and average temperatures across Canada have set records for warmth the past number of years in row. I'll try to find the article and do a post. Environment Canada announced a few days ago (it was on the CBC, can’t find it right now of course)… that the December 2005 – February 2006 timeframe was above average across Canada, and average temperatures across Canada have set records for warmth the past number of years in row. I’ll try to find the article and do a post.

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Thanks for looking into this. Very interesting about Manitoba’s plans and about what communities in the far north can do.

With oil prices likely to stay high, the investment in wind turbines to serve places with wind energy makes excellent sense. I will try to find out more on the economics of transmission over long distances as that seems to be the constraint on bringing wind energy from the north into the power grid.

One related question is whether accelerated climate change (warming) is beginning to have an effect on southern Canada. Have growing seasons and average temperatures been changing as a result of global warming? I raised this as a possibility on the Canadian DFAIT discussion site. It looks like 2006 may be another unusually warm summer in the Arctic, following the one in 2005. I wonder how far south these effects can reach.

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