Posted on 01/04/2018 5:09:15 AM PST by rktman
Here's a short demonstration video.
I have a friend who worked in a coal fired generating plant most of his life. One summer back in the 70’s or 80’s it was a particularly hot summer and for a two week stretch we were hitting 100-102 degrees with miserable humidity levels.
He said the demand on that particular plant was staggering. One day when the temps hit 105 he got a call from up the food chain telling him you have to keep your plant at it’s current levels, don’t back off one kilowatt! He said it being coal fired allowed him to maintain it’s output at a steady and reliable level without a hiccup.
Basically our energy consumption is that of 200 men of the past. After the Industrial Revolution in England, England abolished slavery, not entirely because it was bad but it lost competitively with the machines doing the work more efficiently. He liked to say that England replaced human slaves with mechanical slaves.
So, nowadays, we have a 200 human slaves worth of “mechanical slave” each on average in terms of energy employment for our daily needs - using coal mostly because we use Chinese coal fired industry.
It puts in perspective then the inability for renewables to satisfy our daily local energy consumption, let alone if we brought back all the industry delocalized in China to do it all for ourselves here - in case of crisis requiring us to become more independent industrially speaking.
I exagerated a bit but maybe not that much. A human can pedal .1 kwatts. A wind turbine with full wind and efficiency 1500 kwatts. On average, though, it is about a 5th of that at most or 300 kwatts. So it would cover 10-15 persons’ needs or 2-3000 human slaves equivalent.
I just do not see how we can plan a field of 500,000 of these just for downtown NYC...
Many, many thanks. Excellent observation and analysis.
Tks for posting this article. Worth the read.
Hopefully this will put a stop to the proliferation of these awful machines across New England. Makes me thankful my great-grandfather had the prescience to buy ME land lakeside PLUS to the top of the hills in order to protect the water supply. He didn’t have to think that it would also protect against stupid, noisy, bird-killing windmills...
Those must be scrawny trees in Nebraska. We heated for a year and a half of of one 100 year old storm damaged red oak.
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