The 160 turbines on the windfarm will be capable of generating 576MW of power, and the developers estimate that it will produce the energy equivalent to the annual needs of about 400, 000 homes.
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"Desalination requires a lot of power ... we estimate that about four tonnes of carbon are emitted per million gallons of freshwater produced here, " he says, with reference to the energy-intensive process of removing salt from seawater (see factbox).
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Power and Associates weighed in with a February 2013 SAAR estimate of 15.2 million.
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So instead of testing tailpipes, Gartner's estimate measured the carbon dioxide cranked out to power everything from PCs to phones.
As a result of the power of compound interest, the choice of discount rate used to estimate the potential economic costs of climate change is more important for purposes of understanding the trade-offs associated with competing climate-change policy options than perhaps any other single issue in climate change economics.
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For two weeks 20 Bechtelians tried to estimate the cost of repairing roads, airports, hospitals, power plants and waste treatment systems.
The most rigorous estimate suggests that the average annual load factor of the UK wind power system is about 27%.
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This is one of the ways to estimate the intrinsic value of business based on their book value and their earnings power.
The main concession they make to the q-sceptics is to agree that, if a certain kind of intangible asset increases monopoly power in the American economy, then q, properly measured, would be lower than their estimate.
Given some refinements in design, they estimate it may be possible to convert enough energy such that the harvesters alone would be sufficient to power all of the implants in the cyborg beetle.
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