Windmills vs OIL from Open
Choke by theoilpatchplug on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:24:22 PM
I was playing around with per capita energy
use by type, and reduced it all to an
interesting relationship.
1 Windmill (1.5 Mw) = 0.88 BOPD = 5357
cfg/d = .2446 short tons coal = 16,070 sq ft of
solar voltaic cells = overall energy
consumption of 5.5. Americans per day.
Thus, we can be energy independent on a
pure play with either
54,727,727 windmills (at $1.5 million per = 75
trillion)
26,500,000 stripper oil wells (at .5 million per
= 13 trillion)
3,311,000 80 bopd wells (at 1.5 million per = 5
trillion)
29,300,000 100 mcfg/d gas wells (at .5 million
per = 15 trillion)
Huge amounts of strip mining
2921 sq ft/person or nearly a trillion square
feet of photovoltaic cells or 23 million acres
(around 1% of US land mass) (at $50 per sq.
ft = $50 trillion)
Choke by theoilpatchplug on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 11:24:22 PM
I was playing around with per capita energy
use by type, and reduced it all to an
interesting relationship.
1 Windmill (1.5 Mw) = 0.88 BOPD = 5357
cfg/d = .2446 short tons coal = 16,070 sq ft of
solar voltaic cells = overall energy
consumption of 5.5. Americans per day.
Thus, we can be energy independent on a
pure play with either
54,727,727 windmills (at $1.5 million per = 75
trillion)
26,500,000 stripper oil wells (at .5 million per
= 13 trillion)
3,311,000 80 bopd wells (at 1.5 million per = 5
trillion)
29,300,000 100 mcfg/d gas wells (at .5 million
per = 15 trillion)
Huge amounts of strip mining
2921 sq ft/person or nearly a trillion square
feet of photovoltaic cells or 23 million acres
(around 1% of US land mass) (at $50 per sq.
ft = $50 trillion)
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