(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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bird blenders.
5 Top Reasons Your Future is Powered by Thorium Energy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQReZYZ_6R0
Interview with Benjamin Soon, Flibe Energy, at ThEC15 in Mumbai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uXQbeqiisw (REALLY GOOD!)
In 2010 a cold snap caused rolling blackouts in Texas. Two fossil fuel plants were shutdown for maintenance and the much vaunted windmills were mostly idled by the weather front and could not provide the needed power. Wind energy is simply too fickle to be more than an expensive supplement to other sources. The wind turbines are a blight on the landscape, are blenders for birds and the health hazards for people living close to the turbines are being ignored.
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...