When the wind doesn’t blow, that sucks...
“Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone).”
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/04/08/wind-power-is-a-complete-disaster/
Stupid is supposed to hurt.
I think her policy is no nukes, no fracking..and everyone rides a bike.
Sorry. I was wrong. The article linked in a comment was from 2010, not yours.
Blow, Angela, blow!
Handelsblatt: the sound made when a large insect strikes the window of a BMW.
So, the unstable variability of wind supplied electricity is not the real culprit. It was the existing transmission grid that wasn't upgraded properly.
Anyone with half a brain would realize that ANY idiot scheme can be made to look like a "good investment" as long as there are enough public funds backing the venture with subsidies.
1. People don’t like living near wind farms.
2. Wind farms cause grid instability.
3. Electric rates have been skyrocketing due to the subsidies.
What could go wrong?
And the article left out the slaughter of both birds and bats, something the environmentalists seem to overlook when it comes to their favorite power source, just as they overlook the direct harm done to people who have to live with their policy idiocy.
Meanwhile, Texas generates 21,044 MW or slightly less than half the Texas 44,470 megawatts wind generated annually in Germany
Germany should temporarily move all their windfarms to Montserrat and Saint Barthelemy. In about two days from now they will have collected enough wind energy (according to the weather forecasters screaming about a cat-9, or is it cat-99, Irma) to last for the next century.
What's that equal to, about 40 natgas plants?
[The problem, Blanco says, is that worldwide green energy subsidies are being capped and wind parks as a result are no longer looking profitable to investors.]
The problem from day one. Propped up on the backs of taxpayers.
“is that worldwide green energy subsidies are being capped and wind parks as a result are no longer looking profitable to investors”
That just Blows-me-away! I wonder if Trump’s dropping the
Paris Accord agreement had any kind of result? Maybe?
It was always that bad, they just hide the bad with public funding.
Who could have predicted this...
That’s what happens when you take the government money out of it.
The math is easy.
Peak electric demand for San Diego = 4,800W
If solar and wind each have capacity of 4,800W then:
Wind power generation when wind blows = 4,800W = Demand met
Wind power generation when wind does not blows = 0 = Looting and arson
Solar power generation when sun is shining = 4,800W = Demand met
Solar power generation when the sun does not shine = 0 = Rape and pillage
Traditional power of 4,800W = bliss.
So even if you have wind of 4,800W and solar of 4,800W on a windless night you will still need 4,800W of fossil or nuke power you will be pillaged, raped, or burned
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