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Originally Posted by mightybooboo
Try looking at world output and expansion. Then troll elsewhere,Im not interested.
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I have looked at world output and expansion. Is there a point to your request?
I understand that wind power is one of the fastest growing energy sources in the world. I further understand that if I were to in fact attach an alternator to my hamster wheel, then hamster power would be the fastest growing power source in the world because an increase from 0 to any hamster power is percentage wise an infinite value.
When wind is pathetically small in net output, then even small numeric changes in wind power output result in huge percentage changes. So while you call wind power capacity "substantial", I would call it unimpressive or even negligible.
In MW terms, even when you include the whole world, wind energy still only accounts for around 1% of energy consumed. Still not what I would call substantial.
I think you are over-hyping a nice, but insignifigant in global terms, technology.
I'm a naysayer to your claim of alternative energy, and in particular wind energy, being "substantial." You claim your graph shoots me down, but I claim that calling .04% of a total "substantial" is a stretch and most people wouldn't use that word in most cases to describe something that accounts for 4/10000th of a total.
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The expected average growth for the next five-year period is less than half the average growth of 26.3 percent seen in the five years to 2003. It is also lower than the previous five year 2003-2007 forecast for 11.2 percent growth.
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As wind power output grows in real terms, its percentage pace will slow.
