Posted on 11/16/2019 3:27:03 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
In Germany, real environmentalists are mounting a well-drilled revolt against the destruction of forests – the natural habitat of apex predators, like the endangered Red Kite. Environmentalists are also furious at the fact that Kites, Eagles and dozens of threatened bat species are being sliced and diced with impunity across Europe. Rural residents, driven mad in their homes or driven out of them by practically incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound have taken their cases to law seeking injunctions and damages.
The result being is that new wind farm construction in Germany has ground to a halt: so far this year a trifling 35 onshore wind turbines have been erected.
The fact that chaotically intermittent wind power can’t be delivered as and when power consumers need it means the wanton destruction of pristine wilderness, bucolic landscapes, rural communities, and millions of birds and bats (including plenty of species on the brink of extinction) is pretty hard to justify.
There is a kind of irony in the fact that environmentalists have turned out to be the wind industry’s nemesis, given that the entire subsidy-soaked scam once traded on its ‘holier than thou’ environmental credentials.
In Germany, the wind industry’s wholesale destruction of forests has drawn the focus of environmentalists, once again, in relation to a 7 turbine project set to wipe out a square mile of Germany’s shrinking woodland.
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“You would allow the government be in charge of any of that?
Blocking the sun?”
Well, that’s not my point. My point is that the SAME PEOPLE who want government to be in charge of everything, don’t even propose the obvious solution to too much heating of the planet...and, obviously, the government (or some group of governments) would be in charge of that. So why don’t they? And that’s my point.
Not sure if that is still the case now.
We have about a dozen blade type wind turbine manufacturers just in the State of Iowa.
Seems to me it would have been easier to build 4 or 5 smaller towers which could fit in place of the “dome” sized one you were speaking of. That way if one went out for repairs the others would still be producing their combined 750 to 800 thousand watts....as opposed to losing the entire megawatt productivity when the “big one” went down and had to shut down for repairs.
Wind power scales to the area in sq ft of the air inlet or blade rotor area.
Smaller distributed turbines have the advantages you mention but the push is for larger rotor diameters to get max power and the higher towers get the blades into clean airflow and away from ground turbulence
Well, they have to do that, lest tsunami’s and earthquakes destroy their nuclear power plants, none of which are built on shorelines and in earthquake prone areas as East German Communist born Merkle used as her reasoning for closing them.
#4 I bet birds get sucked in and “cuisinarted” : )
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