Apple Partners With Sprint, eBay, and Samsung on New Texas Wind Farm

[Kabeyun]

What kind of Flying Spaghetti Monster deitydoesn’t have a garlic bread side deity.

And we all know the best garlic bread comes from a pizza oven.

Naturally. All pastafarians know that pizza and garlic bread are at the right and left hands of his High Spaghettiness.

 

[RichardMZhlubb]

The problem then becomes distribution. It is not insurmountable but you can't just stick everything in a corner of the country. In fact they are currently doing work to send power FROM Cheyenne, Wyoming TO Las Vegas, Nevada to service the grids in NV, CA, and AZ. Seems crazy but it's complicated.

TransWest Express Transmission Project

TransWest Express LLC is developing and constructing critical high-voltage interregional transmission infrastructure to make America’s power grid more reliable and more resilient.

www.transwestexpress.net

The bigger problem is the duck curve and storage. We cannot fully rely on intermittent resources like wind and solar until we have cost-effective storage solutions available to turn that energy into a fully dispatchable 24/7 product. We’re still a decade or more away from that goal.

 

[masterhiggins]

But, but they cause cancer...

"If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value, and they say the noise causes cancer."
~ Donald Trump

Well, he’s probably right about the home values. Those things are ugly as ****.

 

[PracticalMac]

This is why, at least from what I understand, solar power seems to be the way to go. It's estimated that 21,250 square miles of land would need to be covered in solar panels in order to meet the energy requirements for the US. The yellow in this map is 21,250 square miles:
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Yes and No
It can go a long way, but not 100%, and not all the time.

 

[Sydde]

I am curious about this New Texas. Is it an improvement over Texas?

 

[Solomani]

I find it sad that this story has to go in PSRI. A collaboration on renewable energy should not be a political issue.

Yup. A widescale collaboration mean that even arch-rivals (Apple and Samsung) can sometimes set aside differences and cooperate on mutual issues that's important to all the companies involved, but also important to all humanity.
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I am curious about this New Texas. Is it an improvement over Texas?

Yeah I guess. And some people believe New Mexico is an improvement over Mexican Mexico.