do you think wind energy will ever be used widely like gas?

Yes, in the long term it will provide more energy than our natural gas supplies did, because wind energy is renewable.

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That's an interesting question.

As one person pointed out, some countries are already using wind energy to produce significant amounts of power. If the electric car ever becomes mainstream, then won't that mean a huge shift from oil/gas to renewable energies that produce electricity.

It will also provide even more incentives for people to experiment with renewable energy using plans like Home Made Energy, since they will be able to cheaply produce power for both their homes and their cars.

Why isn't possible that someday electricity generated form the wind will be as much a part of day to day lives as power generated from oil and gas is today?

Although it is possible to use electricity generated by a wind turbine to synthesize gasoline from CO2 and H2O (Sandia Labs research into more efficient ways of producing hydrogen from water concluded it was just as easy to synthesize liquid hydrocarbon fuels, hence a hydrogen economy is already obsolete), there simply isn't enough suitable sites for wind turbines.

Wind turbines operate in a very narrow range of wind speeds so they require sites that are not only accessible by road and close to where the power is needed, but where the weather can be expected to produce winds within it's operating range most of the time.

Wind power is not on demand therefore conventional generating capacity must be kept in stand-by just in case the wind dies, this limits how much wind power a grid can take on before loosing stability.

The generation of AC power directly links the rate of rotation to the line frequency hence any variation in windspeed will attempt to change the line frequency of the grid. This affects when a wind turbine will actually serve to generate power or serve as a fan to blow the wind along and it also limits how much windpower the grid can tolerate before loosing stability.

Until we can control the weather, wind power will always be limited.

No, due to the fact that wind patterns are not consistent enough to be widely used. We can, however, use wind energy more than we do now.

Don't know if it'll ever provide as much energy as we get from gas now.

But it will probably be as big as the electricity we get from natural gas. Denmark gets 20% or so of its electricity from wind and is looking to get more. Spain, Germany, France are all at ~10% iirc. 20% or so of electricity seems likely since grids can cope with that amount.

An it's also likely that in future we'll get more of our total energy by electricity - electric cars and heat pumps instead of petrol cars and gas boilers for example.

Wind and solar power should be used as much as possible to save
us from using to many fossil fuels which in turn produces greenhouse gas emissions to ruin our planet.

Nope!
Oil as a base for Gasoline, Diesel, Boiler Oil etc & Natural Gas can not be replaced by Wind Energy as such. Wind will provide Electricity but we do need different types of Energies too.

Wind is not very consistent during the seasons of the year. Wind Turbines can not be used every where on the Planet. Wind speed too low, too high. Solar has a better application but still can not be used everywhere equally good and easy. (think Northern Alaska).


So the solution is a multitude of Energy Sources for different needs, application and locations.

W must change from a Hydro ) Carbon Economy to a Hydrogen Economy. {Jerry Rifkin}

Renewable Energy can replace our dependency on Oil for Energy!
Hydrogen Technology can and will replace Gas/ Diesel for Vehicle Propulsion.

Oil Products ( Plastics, even tires) are much more useful then burning it as cheap and inefficient fuel.

Electric Cars are coming. Hydro gen Powered Buses are already in operation. New Battery Technologies (i.e organic), are going away fro heavy Lead. Lithium Polymer Batteries are getting cheaper every year. They are light and can be fully recycled.

Raw materials for New Tech Products must be environmental friendly

Cheers

If you mean gasoline, probably not. Wind produces electricity, not liquid fuel. Electric cars are not likely to be as numerous as gasoline powered ones because of raw material shortages (for the batteries).

If we make the transition to renewable energy, wind will be a large part of it. But it won't power a lot of cars.

DK

Ever? Then yes.