Department of Agriculture

[Kevin]

I think there are corridors where it is windy enough to give a viable boost, but at the cost of damaging the skyline and noise pollution.

Like fields of oil derricks don't do this already? I don't mind the argument but I find it silly that it's never applied to the current fossil fuels that do the same thing.

I also think geothermal is another source that can be utilized more. The university I work at, in central Missouri, is replace an old coal fired plant with a geothermal plant currently. Well drilling in ongoing, a few of the fields are finished and since the majority of the fields are under parking lots once they are done you simply don't notice them. The generation plants are incorporated into existing or new buildings, you don't notice them either.

Since the coal plant is only used to generate heat and handle the chilled water loops, that's all the geothermal will do, though self sustainingly so there will be small electric generation to power the pumps themselves, but not for building power. But the entire campus building and water heating as well as all the chilled water will be handled from geothermal. This is actually a fairly hefty amount of energy usage and I don't remember how many tons of coal per year it will no longer require though I could look it up.