Talk:History of wind power
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George W. Bush
perhaps a mention of George W. Bush Jr.'s renewable energy initiative as Texas governor? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.208.153 (talk • contribs)
- If you can cite a reliable source, feel free to add it to the article. Perhaps a better option would be to add it to Wind power in Texas; I'll see what I can do. We can search the Web for: George W. Bush renewable energy initiative Texas governor, which finds a few possible sources for this information. Incidentally, George W. Bush does not have a Jr. after his name because his father's name is George Herbert Walker Bush. --Teratornis (talk) 17:04, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
NASA's "extraordinarily successful government research and development activity"
This part seems debated on other sites. From what I gather on the web, the MOD-5b installed in Hawaii never produced close to projections - none of the projects did. Government stopped funding these wind efforts do to the lack of economic results. There was also a disaster in engineering involving the lack of a teetering hub on earlier models. A more careful analysis needs to be done here ARUenergy (talk) 20:18, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
- I've read about problems in the program too, with perhaps the most telling criticism being that the program failed in its stated goal of getting any of its designs into mass production by the aerospace companies it paid to build the prototypes. None of the NASA/DOE MOD-series machines led directly to commercial production, nor did they manage to leapfrog the slower incremental improvement of commercial wind turbines, which started with physically smaller machines and gradually scaled up. However, there may have been some useful industrial spinoffs; see Wind power in Ohio#cite_note-viterna_method-6. I wouldn't disparage the program for having its funding cut, because the Reagan and Bush Sr. Administrations were famously hostile to the renewable energy programs started by Jimmy Carter. Reagan symbolically removed Carter's solar panels from the White House roof, scaled back renewable energy research across the board, and wanted to abolish the DOE altogether. One might argue that the MOD program was "extraordinarily successful" just to have survived as long as it did in a hostile political environment, when the prices of oil and gas were declining to historic lows, thoughts of peak oil were nearly unimaginable, and Climate change denial was virtually mainstream in the U.S. --Teratornis (talk) 02:44, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
- I have some sources in Wind power in Ohio#NASA Lewis MOD series that someone could borrow to improve History of wind power. Also check out commons:File:Wind generator comparison.svg. --Teratornis (talk) 02:50, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
Photo of ship Chance
The caption states that the windmill was a wind generator for producing electricity. The design of the sails is totally wrong for this to be true. It is much more likely that the windmill was used to work the bilge pumps. Any objections to changing the caption? Mjroots (talk) 08:55, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
Note to all
When starting an article about History of <foo>, try to come up with a lead section that is not entirely This article is about the history of <foo>.. The surprise is pretty much given away by the title of the page. Anyone who is bright enough to benefit by reading this tripe has already figured it out without the help of this brilliant prose. --Wtshymanski (talk) 05:41, 29 November 2009 (UTC)