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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: TimF who wrote (888929)9/18/2015 5:46:26 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (1) of 1576346
 
Gigawatts are irrelevant. Gigawatt hours are what's important and a lot of them
That number was gigawatt hours....assumed you would know that.....if it's produced it'll be used...

ts an even smaller factor if you consider the ares to which oil through the pipeline can be put to use. It mostly would be used to power cars and trucks. Electric cars and trucks are a fraction of one percent of the US car and truck fleet, and probably represent and even smaller percentage of the number of miles driven. Wind power is less then 5 percent of electricity production in the US. Wind power powers something on the order of a part per twenty thousand of US car and truck miles.For the non-transportation uses of the oil, wind power is not just a tiny niche player, it isn't a player at all. You can't use it as feed stock for plastics, or to lubricate your engine.
You have no vision..............at one time all of our oil came from whales............. The US has a target of 20% of our electricity to come from wind by 2030... In 2014 4% of the worlds electricity came from wind.

To put it simply wind power is irrelevant to Keystone XL

Wind, solar, natural gas are not irrelevant to Keystone....don't hear too much about it right now do you?
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