Boone Pickens wants to replace our natural gas electric power with wind power and convert our cars to run on compressed natural gas (CNG). Could that work?
You aren’t going to convince the companies that own the natural gas (NG) power plants to power down their plants prematurely unless the price of NG triples. The best we can hope for is sufficient growth in wind power and CSP to bring construction of new NG power plants to a halt within three years. Until WindFuels plants begin to come online, the growth rate of utilization of wind and CSP in the grid will be limited by transmission and storage costs. There are a number of additional factors that are discussed in more detail elsewhere (CNG Vehicles) and are summarized here.
You aren’t going to convince the companies that own the natural gas (NG) power plants to power down their plants prematurely unless the price of NG triples. The best we can hope for is sufficient growth in wind power and CSP to bring construction of new NG power plants to a halt in the US within three years. Until WindFuels plants begin to come online, the growth rate of utilization of wind in the grid will be limited by transmission and storage costs. There are a number of additional factors that are discussed in more detail elsewhere (CNG Vehicles) and are summarized here.
You aren’t going to convince the companies that own the natural gas (NG) power plants to power down their plants prematurely unless the price of NG triples. Even with the increased availability of shale gas, we would see the price of gas in the U.S. increase quickly if we tried to use it for more than a very small segment of transportation (such as airport buses). Until WindFuels plants begin to come online, the growth rate of utilization of wind in the grid will be limited by transmission and storage costs. There are a number of additional factors that are discussed in more detail elsewhere (CNG Vehicles) and are summarized here.
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