Posted on 01/01/2021 7:03:15 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The turning diameter of its rotor is longer than two American football fields end to end. Later models will be taller than any building on the mainland of Western Europe.
The G.E. machines will have a generating capacity that would have been almost unimaginable a decade ago. A single one will be able to turn out 13 megawatts of power, enough to light up a town of roughly 12,000 homes.
The race to build bigger turbines has moved faster than many industry figures foresaw. G.E.’s Haliade-X generates almost 30 times more electricity than the first offshore machines installed off Denmark in 1991.
In coming years, customers are likely to demand even bigger machines, industry executives say. On the other hand, they predict that, just as commercial airliners peaked with the Airbus A380, turbines will reach a point where greater size no longer makes economic sense.
(Excerpt) Read more at dnyuz.com ...
In the real world, not so much.
And the “environmental impact” is nil??? Not likely.
What happens when the wind isn’t blowing?
What happens when it is blowing too hard?
No mention of the cost of production, Zero mention of what battery source they are going to use, Zero mention of Storm damage and Zero mention of what are they going to do when the wind does not blow...
What a crock of cr*p sales promotion for something everyone knows will never reach it’s intended output 24/7
Regards
Read up on the minerals to build the turbines and where it comes from. Then read up on what happens to the blades when they are at the end of their life. Then look at the number of rare birds killed by wind turbines.
And finally what do you do for power when the wind isn’t blowing?
What happens when he blades need to be replaced? They will fill up the
Wyoming windmill blade landfill quite quickly.
Obama will cause the wind to blow. After all, he can slow the rise of the sea.
GE is owned by the Chinese.. Does that mean we actually subsidize the chincoms..??
Wind turbine fans are cauding a HUGE landfill problem. They are damn near indestructable but so far not reusable as not fitting new designs.
What will they do eith thoysand foot blades in the long run?
Typical lefties - cannot see past the end of their noses.
If the wind don’t blow then you fire up an evil carbon producing power plant. Shhh. Don’t tell the stoopid watermelons.
So, if you have two identical fields, one with wind turbines, and one without them, and a 30 mph wind enters those fields, what happens to the wind leaving the field with the windmills? It loses energy, doesn’t it? Doesn’t it? And the downwind terrain will become?... Warmer or cooler or the same?...Anyone?...Bueller?... ....And how in the name of ALMIGHTY SCIENCE does that NOT alter the climate? HOW does that NOT result in permanent changes to weather patterns?
And just where the hell do you put the used fiberglass blades when you have to replace them after 10 or 15 years?
And what do you do about all the birds that are killed by these freaking monstrosities?
And why do we have to be chained to the most expensive means of producing electricity known to man?
Windmills suck.
Bumper sticker, please...
> A single one will be able to turn out 13 megawatts of power, enough to light up a town of roughly 12,000 homes. <
I just did a heavy mathematical analysis of that turbine. I used abstract algebra and a calculator with lots of big buttons.
The shocking result: If there is no wind, this turbine will turn out 0 megawatts of power. Then it will light up 0 homes.
(Where do I go to get a government grant to study this further?)
He invented Nirvana, and stovepipe trousers.
Oh, and peace throughout the known world
I gotta go wash my mouth out with soap.
Regards
Nothing, it just sits there.
What happens when it is blowing too hard?
They feather the blades and decouple the hub from the generator.
Hope they don’t put that thing in hurricane country!!
It will be spectacular to watch one of these monsters self-destruct.
TOP 10 TOO MUCH WIND! 10 Wind Turbine Fails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIDQO-V0s40&ab_channel=Top10CoolestStuff
Won't they look lovely. Put one next to Stonehenge or maybe in Paris. How about the Vatican square? BTW, what ever happened to small local thorium reactors?
Also not mentioned is the amount of power generated by a fossil fuel source that is required to get it spinning and to keep it spinning. Operators in Spain a few years ago realized they could make money on the subsidies just by running them from gas without wind. As long as they were turning, they were generating money - in that case more than the cost of the fuel.
Eagle carcass counting under wind turbines in Norway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8u6B1fm4QQ&ab_channel=StopTheseThings
Even bigger blades for the landfill!
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