Posted on 06/27/2023 5:41:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Brings back memories of my college engineering thermodynamics class and working with steam tables.
True. And has everyone seen the pictures of the vast fields of discarded and unrecyclable wind turbine blades that have to be buried?
In junior high school we used to say:
“The wind blows free, how much do you charge?”
Knowing would just make me more depressed.
So, just for you😊
Grab a pinwheel with your right hand, bring it up to you face, purse your lips and blow. MAGIC. Happiness of wind power.
In southwestern Minnesota there is a virtual forest of wind turbines along a supposedly very windy ridge. The wind turbines extend virtually from horizon to horizon. I frequently drove by this wind turbine forest and often observed times when not one of these scores of wind turbines were moving. Only rarely were all moving presumably producing electricity, but it was common even on windy days to see at least some of these turbines sitting idle producing not a single watt of electricity. To depend on such a fickle source of electric power is pure folly.
I was originally going to comment that I disagree with this statement until I realized that this would be like arguing that a rock is dumber than a hammer. Both are so stupid that such an argument is just as stupid. The fact that bureaucrats are advocating either method of energy storage places them at the same intelligence level of both rocks and hammers.
I have even read that the wind turbines contribute directly to global warming. Since they capture the wind energy, the wind speed is slower and areas downwind get warmer!
A customer of a company for which I once worked manufactured solar panels. Given that they could source them for actual cost, care to hazard a guess how much of their manufacturing energy came from solar?
If you said ZERO, you are a winner.
It must further be noted that the cost of oil, gas, and coal is no more or less than the cost of wind and solar. No one gets an invoice from mother earth for any of them. The price comes from harvesting each of them and getting them to the consumer in the form they are needed and at the time they are needed. In that, wind and solar are infinitely expensive since much of the time they can’t get there at all.
They think it’s free
Bahahahaha
But the little cute cartoon AOC voiced showed two or three windmills powerring an entire city. She knows how to work a national power grid...
And never a concern for what those windmills do to the surrounding climate / environments.
A definitive article from 13 years ago condemning the folly of wind power AND STILL it goes on.
In the words of a sond, “when will they ever learn?”
Oh my, you can’t fix stupid or an agenda of control, power and money. Or whatever reason this insanity goes on.
A definitive article from 13 years ago condemning the folly of wind power AND STILL it goes on.
In the words of a sond, “when will they ever learn?”
Oh my, you can’t fix stupid or an agenda of control, power and money. Or whatever reason this insanity goes on.
A definitive article from 13 years ago condemning the folly of wind power AND STILL it goes on.
In the words of a sond, “when will they ever learn?”
Oh my, you can’t fix stupid or an agenda of control, power and money. Or whatever reason this insanity goes on.
Wind for when it’s windy
Solar panels for when the sun shines
Batteries for when it is dark and windless
Gas and coal for backup
Lots and lots of great big power lines to link all this mess
What could possibly be wrong?
Why in the living hell is all this insanity going on?
You are correct. To debate one alternative over the other is to betray good sense, good engineering and to endorse folly.
Sorry for repost. Internet connection being goofy
As a virtue signal, they are a monstrous display of extravagance and yes, WASTE. They have limited lifetime, and are impossible to deal with as an eyesore that may stand for decades if not centuries.
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Touché! A succinct, informed, and artful comment on the idiocy of windpower. Just love the phrase "the primarily ornamental windmill towers. Yeah, as "ornamental" as a withered Christmas tree in August.
Keep up the great commentary, FReeper.
If the wind is too high, they lock them down so they don’t turn.
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