And when there is no wind to turn the turbines, they turn with electricity. Makes sense, don't it/sarc
Here’s another excellent debunking article, from about a year ago at Family Security Matters. It provides quick and fact-based overviews of the absurdities of ethanol, sugar cane, biodiesel, switchgrass, green algae, and electric cars:
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.506,css.print/pub_detail.asp
No new coal plants, no new nukes = severe power shortages in a couple of decades. Obama’s Hope Energy Policy.
It’s the California Plan.
They are not only 25% efficient, (of their rated capacity at best) but the maintenance on them is extremely expensive and excessive. they are also very difficult and costly to tie into the main grid. What little power they produce and the unrealistic land area they require, creates incredible instability in the main grid. The more of them there are, the more problems they represent.
The same goes for Solar Power, which is beyond ridiculous when even compared to Wind. the statistical facts are this; For every standard Coal plant, it takes 1,750 times the land area of Wind Turbines (10,000 turbines) to equal the output of just one Coal, Nuclear, or Natural Gas plant. In regards to Solar, it takes 177,000 times the land area to equal one Standard electrical plant.
These ridiculous facts are not even remotely being published to the public, who still believes that these energy sources will soon replace the old Planet killing methods and far surpass all of our energy needs. The only thing that has kept that from happening in the past, was that those evil Republicans and greedy Oil/Coal companies have kept the Democrats from giving it to us. Which is what even the media has reported.
And the brain dead public keeps on buying it.
What happens when there is too much wind? A tornado would not be too good for windmills.
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And when there is no wind to turn the turbines, they turn with electricity. Makes sense, don't it/sarc
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Go nuclear, Save the Raptors : (
http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2008/07/24/new-data-shows-bird-kills-up-in-altamont/
http://www.windaction.org/documents/13936
http://www.nationalwind.org/publications/wildlife/avian98/03-Hunt-Golden_Eagles.pdf
http://www.wind-works.org/articles/NRELBirdReport04.html
Why is it that they never want to talk about nuclear power? Never want to include it in any solutions. They cannot agree with one another, on where to build wind, or solar farms. They want them built even though they are inefficient, for the square area being used. Nuclear does not have that inefficiency, but they refuse it all together. Does that make any sense? NOPE!!!
Excellent explanation of the engineering realities of wind power. Thanks for posting it!
What do you think a flock of them would do to a wind farm?
What effect on the environment would be caused by the shift in the path of migratory birds?
Do we need a 10-year impact study?
Forget about the liberal ‘reduce greenhouse gases’ part of the diatribe against windmills. They are cost effective and produce lots of jobs. Turbine production has sprung up in the northern plains. Its too expensive to ship turbine blades all the way from Europe so they are now building them here. Jobs are created to build the towers and maintain them. Farmers make extra money by leasing part of their land to the company who operates the windmills. Normal farming goes on right around the windmills, very little land is lost from farm production.
And at the same time we are ripping down hydro-electric dams.
I think we all know Obama has had plans to halt our nation’s production of long-range intercepting missiles. And we also know that the Palm Springs area has been using those large turbines for wind energy for quite some time.
Could it be possible that Obama has secret plans to erect turbines up at Vandenberg in the hope that he can thwart any incoming threat with a good blow?
In Texas there is 8000+ MW of wind generation.
Last week when ERCOT was close to peak load, there was 300 MW of wind generation.
Idiots are buying “green power” because it makes them feel special.
