And to do this they have to cut down living CO2-consuming trees and use oil to produce the synthetics in the cushions.
Next will be to create housing for the homeless using decommissioned turbine blades.
Posted on 12/04/2022 9:23:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
There are wind farms being put up all over the place these days, including in many rural areas of the United States. But the offshore wind farms that have been constructed in the North Sea by various European power companies have created a forest of towers rising up over the waves. But that’s not a problem, right? After all, this is the “clean energy” we were all promised and we’re saving the planet so everyone can feel better about themselves. The Biden administration recently announced plans to accelerate offshore wind farm construction in the name of “environmental justice, biodiversity, and protecting our oceans.” But according to one peer-reviewed study published in a prominent nature journal, those wind farms aren’t really good for the ocean ecosystem at all. And they create “substantial” negative impacts on marine life and ocean conditions. Oops. (The Blaze)
In September, the Biden administration announced its “ambitious” plans to expand American offshore wind energy “while advancing environmental justice, protecting biodiversity, and promoting ocean co-use.” A new study has cast significant doubt on whether the White House’s plan and similar initiatives to tackle so-called climate change can be accomplished without creating some substantial negative environmental changes all their own.
In addition to impacting regional atmosphere, “multiple physical, biological, and chemical impacts on the marine system have been identified,” all resultant of these “environmentally jus[t]” solutions.
Previously, researchers had only theorized about the impact of the wind wake effect offshore wind farms had on marine life and ocean conditions. A peer-reviewed study published in the Springer Nature journal “Communications Earth & Environment” revealed that the effects of these wind farms are “substantial.”
Not being a scientist myself, some of the details in the study were a bit hard for me to follow. But the study of the area surrounding the wind farms in the North Sea found increased levels of sediment carbon in the water around the wind turbines. (Wait… weren’t we supposedly doing all of this to reduce carbon?) The researchers also detected significantly lower levels of oxygenation in the water in that region. I’m not sure how that works, but it’s probably not good for the fish and other marine life in the area.
All of this has resulted in changes in nutrient concentration that produce a cascading effect that impacts the entire oceanic food chain. The initial impact is on the small creatures that live in and above the sedimentary regions at the sea bottom. But those animals provide food for the larger fish and the sea birds in the area. Basically, when you suppress the creatures at the bottom of the food chain, it affects everyone else all the way to the top.
A recent British ornithology report found a decrease of five percent in the seabird populations in the region of the larger wind farms. And that’s not even counting the ones that are chopped up when they fly into the turbines.
As The Blaze goes on to point out, each of these turbines has an estimated lifespan of perhaps 20 years. When they go out of service, they can either be left there to rust away or be taken down. But the material used to create the massive blades on the turbines is not recyclable. It’s estimated that after the new, proposed American offshore wind farms are retired, America will have hundreds of thousands of tons of those blades to dispose of. Where will we put them all?
To be clear, I’m not suggesting that oil rigs being drilled into the floor of the ocean are any better than putting in wind turbines. But let’s not pretend that wind farms are somehow a net benefit to the local marine life and the rest of the environment. Everything comes at a price and there’s no such thing as free energy.
They cause global warming - the very thing fraudulent libtard claim they’re supposed to save us from
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An article designed to increase stupidity so conservatives make fools of themselves? There are legitimate reasons why our energy will never be principally derived from wind energy, but the people who don’t want us developing our own oil, gas and coal are the same people who don’t want us finding means of at least partially replacing our reliance on them: OPEC. And this sort is sort of fale concern for the environment only helps the sand nazis take over the world.
“Wait… weren’t we supposedly doing all of this to reduce carbon?”
Uh, no. the amount of carbon is relatively fixed. We’re trying to reduce carbon dioxide in the air, not carbon in the ocean floor.
“A recent British ornithology report found a decrease of five percent in the seabird populations in the region of the larger wind farms. And that’s not even counting the ones that are chopped up when they fly into the turbines.”
Uh, no. That’s exactly the sort of thing which impacts the study results.
“When they go out of service, they can either be left there to rust away or be taken down. But the material used to create the massive blades on the turbines is not recyclable. It’s estimated that after the new, proposed American offshore wind farms are retired, America will have hundreds of thousands of tons of those blades to dispose of. Where will we put them all?”
Oh, I don’t know what do we do with the other hundreds of MILLIONS of tons of rusty iron we produce? Oh, yeah... For starters, the blades aren’t recyclable in the sense of being reusable, but the iron sure as hell is recoverable.
Look, it’s this simple. The same folks who don’t want using our own oil and coal also don’t want us developing replacements for them: OPEC.
30 million acres Gulf of Mexico to be used. WooHoo!
Don’t they make biodegradable blades now?
Yes, they make great bird chippers.
Notice how silent the worry warts are about that.
Each windmill can be compared to an anti-compressor or expander. The air pushing the windmill blades performs work in order to create electricity and the wind turbine acts as an anti-compressor and, theoretically, the air downstream of the turbine should be lower than air temperature upstream, ever so slightly. The air performs work which is converted into electricity and there must therefore be a temperature drop. C’mon y’all freeperphysicysts help me out thermodynamically and tell me that I am not bullsh*tting. Work is done by the air on the windturbine which nust result in an air temperature drop as per First Law. We cannot create electricity from moving air without a change in temp and press. Environmentalists better realize it. These very changes may just adversely affect the climate if the farms are large enough. Sorry if I busted Greta’s balloon. My advice: Drill baby, drill. C’mon baby, light my fire.
How about (P1*V1)/T1 = (P2*V2)/T2 ?
What are some values, or estimates to plug in?
And again, the windmill blades fiberglass and carbon fiber components CAN be recycled via grinding and TDP.
They cannot be recycled at no cost, and the recycling yields OIL!
Basically the resins are returned to their original form before being made into resins.
TDP is not as efficient as originally hoped but it is a proven tech.
It can also be utilized to nearly eliminate land-fill operations but would require subsidies.
Funny that, I have to pay a fee to use a landfill, there is no rational reason that fee is not going to operate TDP.
Oh wait, the pay-off’s and grift of the land-fill industry are well established and sacrosanct.
And to do this they have to cut down living CO2-consuming trees and use oil to produce the synthetics in the cushions.
Next will be to create housing for the homeless using decommissioned turbine blades.
Not to mention that it will be very expensive to remove these defunct blades and towers.
If the economy is faltering in 20 years, who will budget for wind turbine removal? Nobody.
They will stand as eyesores, until they fall, and become hazards to navigation.
A testimony to man’s folly.
All true.
Plus, these turbines must be constantly topped off with lube oil. 100s of gallons of lube oil per year, per turbine, if I recall correctly.
The old dirty lube oil doesn’t magically disappear. It’s going somewhere. A lot of it drips down, so in the case off offshore turbines, the dirty oil is going into the sea.
It’s a get rich quick scheme for people like Gore, Kerry and Gates who invest in the heavily subsidized tech. Yet another transfer of wealth from the tax payers to the billionaire class.
Yes I read that the droughts in some places may actually be caused by the change in wind patterns over the surface of the earth from the turbines. Tehachapi, California has thousands of these turbines and a major drought.
“Each windmill can be compared to an anti-compressor or expander.”
Spot on. The easy version I ask greenie beanies is: If we put up too many windmills won’t the winds slow down?
AND when ever I hear “follow the science” I ask if they know the laws of thermodynamics. Of course they don’t. Then I ask which direction heat goes. They always say up which is wrong.
I have also read that low frequency pulses induced into the water screw up the sonar used by wales.
“the air downstream of the turbine should be lower than air temperature upstream”
Hey, that will counter global warming! Sounds good, huh, but the electricity generated will ultimately produce heat that will cancel the cooling effect.
I think the wind farms slow the wind down causing Climate Change.
As I understand it the blades are made of fiberglass.
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