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Hundreds Of European Wind Turbines Are Operating At A Loss
http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/16/hundreds-of-european-wind-turbines-are-operating-at-a-loss/ ^
| 16 April 2016
| Andrew Follett
Posted on 04/18/2016 2:54:51 PM PDT by Lorianne
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04/18/2016 2:54:51 PM PDT
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Lorianne
To: Lorianne
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posted on
04/18/2016 2:55:51 PM PDT
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dfwgator
To: Lorianne
How many are operating exploded or on fire?
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posted on
04/18/2016 2:56:33 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Lorianne
Most of Europes modern wind turbines are struggling to be profitable due to the inefficient subsidy structure. That's just more Newspeak Gobbledygook.
They can never be "profitable" if they require a subsidy to do.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:00:08 PM PDT
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Iron Munro
(Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
To: Lorianne
Hundreds of wind turbines in the Netherlands are operating at a loss
Goes without saying. It was a fool's dream from the start.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:04:57 PM PDT
by
Parmy
(II don't know how to past the images.)
To: Lorianne
They have never been able to amortize their cost, anywhere. Spain learned that about ten years ago.
We have yet to learn: Solyndra, Sun Electric, etc.
They’re still trying to sell us “climate change” too.
To: Iron Munro
I see these things out on the plains and farm belt and think what a joke. Hawks, eagles, and batso arent laughing.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:07:10 PM PDT
by
Wilderness Conservative
(Trump vs Cruz - One loses in the summer, the other goes down in the fall.)
To: Iron Munro
Most of Europes modern wind turbines are struggling to be profitable due to the inefficient subsidy structure. Financieele Dagblad is extremely worried about the failure of the Dutch wind industry, because the Netherlands is already behind its green energy targets. inefficient subsidy structure. = NEED MORE TAXES from the surfs
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:08:41 PM PDT
by
DanZ
To: Lorianne
Not a problem! The new and improved Acme Model X-ZERO is now ready for install and operation!
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:17:18 PM PDT
by
JPG
(Go Trump!)
To: Wilderness Conservative
And yet.... We could have used this type of 'turbine' and it wouldn't harm any flying creatures, it wouldn't generate the 'whump-whump' noise , and We could mount them in much greater density, thus occupying less land.
Heck, these could be mounted atop every light pole. Every building could have them mounted all over the roof, and no one would even see them.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:29:06 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: JPG
Dayem, that is so cool. Those aren’t little blades either.
To: Lorianne
“Subsidies for generating wind energy arent cost effective anymore”
Paging Mr. Obvious...
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04/18/2016 3:30:40 PM PDT
by
lacrew
To: Iron Munro
“They can never be “profitable” if they require a subsidy to do.”
Actually, green energy can be quite profitable. Some Germans discovered they could install solar panels and sell the excess power back to the utilities. They installed diesel generators and sold the power as coming from their panels. They received enough to pay for the solar panels, the generators, and the diesel fuel plus a tidy profit. The utilities caught on when they were being sold power on days with heavily overcast skies.
To: Parmy
Well... heck.... If we can change the climate by throwing tons of money at it, we ought to be able to alter the wind patterns so that wind is always blowing past the windmills.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:31:50 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Lorianne
The down side of renewable energy is that the gizmos that produce renewable energy are so damned expensive and the energy produced is very small in comparison such that it takes decades or even centuries for the ROI to be realized.
Actually, if you include the maintenance costs, the gizmos never pay for themselves.
Biggest problem problem for renewable energy is that coal, nat gas and other sources of power, make energy extremely cheap and impossible for renewable energy to compete.
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:31:53 PM PDT
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dhs12345
To: Lorianne
Look at the bright side.. THEY’RE SO BEAUTIFUL TO LOOK AT! /s
To: Lorianne
The wind industry is growing the slowest rate in years due to changes in the structure of subsidies, issues with reliability, and consistently high prices.
The wind industry.
It blows. ;-)
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posted on
04/18/2016 3:36:02 PM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: UCANSEE2
And yet.... We could have used this type of 'turbine' and it wouldn't harm any flying creatures, it wouldn't generate the 'whump-whump' noise , and We could mount them in much greater density, thus occupying less land. Too bad the right Brother-In-Law isn't the distributor or the government would have realized their design advantages.
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posted on
04/18/2016 4:14:05 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Noah: 'When the animals began to pair up by specie and stand in line, I really took notice.')
To: Lorianne
The same is true for America.
in a trip across the country I carefully observed arrays of the turbines
Generally, between 10% and 15% of a given field was inoperative. I stopped to count
In california it was better and worse. In some fields most were operational and in others 50% were not spinning
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posted on
04/18/2016 4:17:42 PM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....)
To: dhs12345
Biggest problem problem for renewable energy is that coal, nat gas and other sources of power, make energy extremely cheap and impossible for renewable energy to compete. If renewable energy contraptions were manufactured and installed using only renewable energy to do so they would be 3 times more expensive. More conventional energy is expended in their acquisition and maintenance than is returned in renewable energy.
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posted on
04/18/2016 4:35:52 PM PDT
by
Reeses
(A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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