WINDPOWER For human development to continue, we will ultimately need to find sources of renewable or virtually inexhaustible energy. It is difficult to imagine this but even if we find several hundred or thousand of years of oil, coal, and natural gas supplies, what will happen when they are depleted? Even the most apparently "inexhaustible" sources like fusion involved the generation of large amount of wasted heat (energy) -enough to place damaging stress on even …
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…difficult to accurately compare the cost of wind plants to fossil fuel plants because the cost drivers are so different. Low installed - cost - per kilowatts figure for wind capacity factor of wind turbine relative to coal and other fossil fuel power plants. **Capacity factors is simply the ration of actual energy produce by a power plant to the energy that would be produced if it operated at rated capacity for an entire year.