http://blog.maxdunn.com/articles/2008/10/21/growth-of-wind-power en-us 40 Max Dunn's Blog <p>Many people are dismissing wind power as irrelevant in solving our energy problem since wind power has been in production for a long time but the total output is still relatively small. However, it is useful to compare the ramp-up of wind power to nuclear power:</p> <p><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2131/2959558928_5410fbd542.jpg?v=0" alt="" width=100% /></p> <p>It is interesting how closely these two growth curves align! In the US today, nuclear provides about 20% of our electricity so it is not unreasonable to assume that wind power can be ramped up to eventually provide the same percentage of power.</p> <p>(References: <a href="http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/4670">The Oil Drum &#8211; Making the case for wind, again</a> and <a href="http://www.ewec2008.info/fileadmin/ewea_documents/documents/publications/reports/purepower.pdf">Pure Power &#8211; Wind Energy Scenarios up to 2030</a>)</p> Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:07:00 -0700 urn:uuid:8b43f5d5-6c1e-4a95-b76a-f033e8112f31 Max Dunn http://blog.maxdunn.com/articles/2008/10/21/growth-of-wind-power Sustainable Energy