https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/04/08/wind-power-is-a-complete-disaster/
Wind power is a complete disaster
There is no evidence that industrial wind power is likely to have a significant impact on carbon emissions. The European experience is instructive. Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone).
Flemming Nissen, the head of development at West Danish generating company ELSAM (one of Denmark’s largest energy utilities) tells us that “wind turbines do not reduce carbon dioxide emissions.” The German experience is no different. Der Spiegel reports that “Germany’s CO2 emissions haven’t been reduced by even a single gram,” and additional coal- and gas-fired plants have been constructed to ensure reliable delivery.
Indeed, recent academic research shows that wind power may actually increase greenhouse gas emissions in some cases, depending on the carbon-intensity of back-up generation required because of its intermittent character. On the negative side of the environmental ledger are adverse impacts of industrial wind turbines on birdlife and other forms of wildlife, farm animals, wetlands and viewsheds...
https://mises.org/wire/wind-power-disaster-texas-no-matter-what-paul-krugman-says
Wind Power Is a Disaster in Texas, No Matter What Paul Krugman Says
In the wake of February’s tragic power outages in Texas, during which 4.5 million households suffered service interruptions, partisans on both sides have been quick to interpret the events as confirmation of their preferred energy policies. With news images of helicopters deicing frozen turbines, conservatives lambasted Texas’s increasing reliance on wind power as the villain in the story.
Trying to temper this knee-jerk reaction, Reason.com columnist Ron Bailey argued that “[m]ost of the shortfall in electric power generation during the current cold snap is the result of natural gas and coal powered plants going offline.” And Paul Krugman for his part declared that it was a “malicious falsehood” to blame wind and solar power for what happened in Texas, as it was primarily a failure of natural gas.
In this article I’ll lay out the basic facts of which power sources stepped up to the plate during the crisis. Contrary to what you would have known from reading Ron Bailey (let alone Paul Krugman), when the Texas freeze hit, electricity from natural gas skyrocketed while wind output fell off a cliff. The people arguing that wind wasn’t to blame mean it in the same way Jimmy Olson wasn’t to blame when General Zod took over: wind is so useless nobody serious ever thought it might help in a crisis.
“Der Spiegel reports that “Germany’s CO2 emissions haven’t been reduced by even a single gram,” and additional coal- and gas-fired plants have been constructed to ensure reliable delivery.”
Germany shut down its final 3 nuclear plants in April with the 6% of power lost being made up by dirty coal plants. 30% of Germany’s power is now generated by coal.
They promised the Greens they would and they did.
The anti-nuclear cabal cited 3 mile island, Chernobyl and Fuchusima as risks.
The hearings about 3 mile island were held in a granite building that exposed the reviewers to more radiation than the whole 3 mile island fiasko.
Germany has never had a tsunami like the one that destroyed the poorly sited Fukushima plant, and Russian engineering can’t be compared to German...Lada versus Mercedes.
It is irrational to shutter nuclear plants to run coal, if you are serious about CO2 emmissions, but then nothing about this saga is rational.
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.