Summer yes, winter might be iffy. But if you have the land a solar system the generates H2 that you store in tanks for use in fuel cells will get you over that hump.

I'm currently perched at the top of the upgrade list for my transcon tomorrow. I've done all I can do and it's out of my hands.

I have a feeling, that's where I'll stay. Unless someone cancels their trip in the next 24 hours. And there's no displaced F/BF customers coming in on a connection.

Wind power is a sure bet on teh plains. However, you just have to ensure that your personal-sized turbine doesn't get torn to shreds by the first arctic blast that barrels through with 90+ mph winds.

Porque? Si is more efficient in cold. :-:

Based on reviews (which we are pretty good at reading before taking a kid there), we felt it was unsuitable for her.

On another issue, without going OMNI; I found that during Patriotism week (which I'm all for), she learned a new Texas pledge (they pledge allegiance to the US Flag and the Texas Flag) which says Under God and Obama.

I explained this to Plus1 and he said that he's more conservative than I am (true) and that she's confused. Considering she's always told me her US and State pledges before without this, I think not. So, those of you who know teachers, any validity to this?

Multiple days of thick overcast and/or ice-fog, and extremely short days in Winter, with the sun on the Southern horizon, delivering far less energy (at an extreme angle) to solar cells.

It actually might be too windy out there for wind generation. It isn't gusty, it's a constant strong wind. The potential is huge but for some reason they fear the concept like it's the red threat of the USSR.

Whoa...this is way more technologically advanced than anything I can deal with. Perhaps I should re-direct my land buying search to somewhere that is more used to people living dishevelved lives in distressed and unkept housing stock. Like, say, Arkansas.

I spent two years in Amarillo, where the wind never seemed to cease. A co-worker, who was from North Dakota (and who lives there now) said that the wind was worse in Amarillo than it was in North Dakota. In any event, the wind isn't a big issue: it is the smells carried by the wind that is. In Amarillo's case, it was often the smell of the nearby feedlots that were :rolleyes:

Industrial-scale turbines could handle it. Scotland is carpeted in wind turbines. The weather around the Scottish coast is a bit finicky.

That's why you orient PV panels on a southern orientation at 10%+ tilt. :-:

But, yeah, ND isn't exactly the US' largest solar market for a reason.

The Texas Panhandle is the Saudi Arabia of wind. There's a reason T-Bone chose the area around Pampa as his preferred site for what would be the world's largest Wind Farm.

General lack of sun in the winter and panels get snow drifts on them. There is also issues of ND being a very dusty place and it's very difficult to keep the panels clean, especially during the time when the ground isn't covered with snow. That's not a problem for places like the Northeast as we get enough rain to keep panels clean but in many really sunny place don't get enough rain to keep the panels clean.

The Box is venturing into a topic of discussion that I know way too much about. For everyone's sanity (especially mine) I'm going to bow out for a little while.

I come here to escape work, not do more of it.

I can haz upgrade?

This (the "Obama" part) is news to me. My significant other is a middle school teacher with HISD. I'll ask her tonight if they do this.

I think that students can opt out of saying "under God."

Yes, but just not his own ranch because, and I'm paraphrasing, he thinks that wind turbines are dam* ugly.