First line in the article tells you it's from someone who doesn't think clearly.
The climate is always changing!! The Modern Warm Period is not unprecedented. Counting since the days of Moses we're in the 4th warming period.
Stopped reading right there.
First line in the article tells you it's from someone who doesn't think clearly.
The climate is always changing!! The Modern Warm Period is not unprecedented. Counting since the days of Moses we're in the 4th warming period.
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Take away the subsidies and we’ll find out. Ten years ago wind was virtually self-sustaining without subsidies but who doesn’t like free money when you can get it? And it made politicans feel real virtuous to be giving it away, so the subsidies stayed.
Try not to stand under them if it’s windy out....
And some don’t get enough wind during lulls.
The most common reason that turbines stop spinning is because the wind is not blowing fast enough. Most wind turbines need a sustained wind speed of 9 MPH or higher to operate.
Wind]d power was not suitable nor sustainable for a recent Texas winter.
Wind power is essential to fighting climate change...’
Wow, a lie in the first eight words. Actually - kind of two lies - wind fails and clueless gubmit paid idiots playing energy games both are ...let’s say....misinformation.
We’ll run out of hawks and eagles before too long.
What a rah! rah! cheerleader article. Yet it NEVER answers the question it posed: “How sustainable is wind power?”
It provides numbers purporting to show how wind kills far less wildlife than farms which seems preposterous.
It never addresses the real issue: Intermittency and Unreliability of weather to generate power, how you need 100% backup (you have to build TWO power plants where only ONE did the job before), the huge capital waste of building TWO power plants, and how unreliable sources can destabilize the grid and lead to grid collapse once you get above 30% renewables.
No foundation for that statement.
"building the turbines is energy-intensive"
True, and the energy used for building the turbines is not "CO2 neutral".
"and the blades are made from plastics",
and again that is not "CO2 neutral" as the plastics are made from "fossil fuels"
"So how eco-friendly is wind power really?"
They're not.
"Wind power is set to become the key pillar of the global renewable energy supply.
Another statement without foundation.
Generating power from wind is not only carbon neutral
It's NOT "carbon neutral"
With the sun, wind is so abundant that it has the potential to supply the entire global energy demand a few times over.
The science of energy refutes that notion.
This will be vital for the energy transition.
THAT assumes one is necessary, which is still not proven.
Can wind power even produce enough energy to build new windmills? It seems to me no power source can be self-sustaining if it can’t produce enough energy to support its replication.
Just wait be until they get started in the gulf with their 30 million acre fiasco.
Just wait be until they get started in the gulf with their 30 million acre fiasco.
Sustainable? As long as the wind blows. Practical and profitable? When the technology is created that harvests wind power without mass birdslaughter and low-level noise that annoys man and beast, and pays out much more than its cost.
Hmmm...
There is no doubt that generating electricity with wind generators reduces the wind.
That disturbs the weather, at least locally.
And what happens when we use up all the wind?
We used to kill Whales for Oil.
Now, we kill Whales for Wind.
It is as sustainable as the combination of the wind blowing constantly, the bearings holding out, the wiring remaining proper and the blades being serviceable.
This is from Deutsche Welle the German equivalent of PBS. And about as objective. Most of the numbers in the article are wishes only. German economy is plummeting due to the screwed up Energiewende policies of which wind power is a big part.