Posted on 01/04/2018 5:09:15 AM PST by rktman
During a recent trip to Maine, my wife and I noticed the large number of wind turbines cluttering the peaks of the ridges around the otherwise scenic New England countryside, particularly in Vermont. There really are a lot of them, and that’s the result of an ongoing push to get the region onto renewable energy as much as possible. Vermont in particular has been hammering wind power as the path to cut carbon emissions and make the state truly green in nature. And they’ve achieved an admirable level of success, despite the fact that people living near the wind farms are being driven batty by all the noise and the state is being forced to enact additional restrictions on turbine operation.
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(Mmm, sitting near my wood stove watching the wind howl and snow pile up - and um, working, too - honest)
change the narrative, change the narrative, change the narrative
L8r
The irony of it is, the things have over-limit sensors that will shut them down if the wind speeds get to be "too much".
More wind is not better, where a wind turbine is concerned... they will probably be off line all weekend.
Just curiously, if the turbine is stationary, will wind force like that damage it?
Actually if the wind is too high they shut them down. So much for wind power.
The best solution for the nonexistent carbon “problem” is nuclear power.
The leftist logic will be to burn coal to create electricity to spin the turbines.
An economist noted that each one of us enjoys with industry the economy of one man with 200 slaves in the past... think each man has 200 human turbines for himself. In other words, we would have to have for a city of 5 million about 20x5 or 100 million of those things if we count 10 human slave turbines per wind turbine in output.
My gas forced air heater is on it’s last season. I’m thinking of replacing with a wood pellet heater. Not sure of cost competitiveness though.
CC
Nope. It comes down to the engineering design. If wind turbines are spinning in too high a wind, above 55 mph, that can cause damage to the comparatively delicate rotor. When the blades are locked in one position, the rotor is safe, and the tower and blades are strong enough up to handle winds up to about 150 mph.
A rather misleading oversimplification. Ask how much wood do you have to burn to keep a house warm in a VT winter. Answer average of 4.8 - 5.4 cords per winter. And this is hardwood not pine. Next question is how many trees does it take to provide that much wood? A cord is 128 cu ft so you need 614 - 691 cu ft of wood per winter. How many acres and how much time does it take to produce this abount of wood? Answer varies depending on where you are, but I found that for Nebraska an acre produces 22 - 24 cu ft a wood a year max. So you need at least between 25 and 31 acres of forested woodlot to heat one house with wood.
BUT this isn't the end of it; trees don't fell themselves and cut themselves into convenient lengths and then transport themselves to your stove. You need fuel and equipment (you aren't going to haul 5 cords of wood in your little VW bug - think big pickup at $35,000 - $50,000) to harvest the timber and a fair amount of time to manage and harvest the timber for fuel as well, so heating with wood is a complicated expensive and resource intensive process not "mmm"
Puts a whole new spin on “let the bastards freeze in the dark.” Perhaps they can just send out more of their liberal politicians to warm them up with more hot air.
the carbon footprint of vermont maple syrup is prohibitive.
Have they discovered that wind generators stop generating power when the temperature plummets? Texans discovered that in the February 2011 blizzard, forcing power companies to buy power from Mexico…and were charged triple the regular price by our nasty neighbor to the south.
Very stupid. Our industrial economy depends on the energy found in oil. There is NOTHING else that contains as much energy, in such concentration, at such a low cost.
If the oil runs out, we’re screwed, and solar/wind power won’t warm up our cold a$$es.
Yes.
The turbines have speed limits beyond which they will feather the blades (turn then edge-on into the wind) to stop rotation.
Snow and ice have damaged wind turbines in the past.
They cover solar panels, so there will be absolutely zero renewable energy being produced. Now what!
Gas, coal, nuclear.
All of the above.
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