yep they said it ,”it’s a total waste of money”
Who gives a crap about what the world does?
In the US, wind generates 5% of our electricity. It’s not “the” solution but it is part of the solution. The industry knows that subsidies are going away and that the technology has evolved to the point producers can make money selling power at competitive rates without it.
The dumbnification about wind energy is rampant.
Perpetual motion?
Something for nothing?
Liberal delusion?
The math is entirely doable with half of Eu’s coal production and another 350000 wind turbines.
Thats all kinds of efficient compared to the eight years of carbon emissions required to manufacture just one Li-ion battery for a car designed to last half that long.
Math is fun!!
It shows you who the idiots are.
And then there’s all the dead eagles... and hawks, and owls, and falcons, and bats, and song birds....
Wind turbines are 21st Century man’s cathedrals.
Built in worship of the global warming death cult of Mother gaia.
I was in Palm Springs in May, and even though the wind was raging through the wind tunnel there, only about 2/3 of the turbines were spinning...
A local in the know added... “even most of the spinning ones never see their power hit the grid”.
One day, a lack of “new money” will bankrupt the makers and suppliers.
Then, there will be no parts....
A wind energy colleague once calculated the temperature drop caused by meeting the entire world’s energy needs with wind and removing all that energy from the atmosphere. I don’t remember his result, but it wasn’t trivial.
Good article! Thanks for posting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_energy_consumption
How many eagles have gone through the mixmaster? Where are the tree huggers for that?
Tell it to Governor Moonbeam the Idiot.
I despise the blight these ugly turbines cause where they are deployed, especially in large numbers. The fact that we shouldn’t even bother makes me realize how disingenuous these eco-freaks are about finding real energy solutions. Whatever makes them feel better is the solution.
In wind rich areas, wind generators are paying to generate because of Production Tax Credits.
Real Generators who do not depend on wind will not generate for a loss and shut down.
The grid will shut down due to fluke in the weather. Don’t expect the wind generators to be able to restart it do to lack of inertia.
Pretty much the end of the world for 80% of the population in the first year.
But at least we will not have to listen to the MSM/Gore and some other CNN looser how they almost got it right.
bkmk
Whales.
That’s your answer right there.
Hook these windmills up to a whale.
Then, as the whale swims along, he will be generating electricity.
You have to have a waterproof extension cord, but that’s like $8, so no big deal.
Yep.....windwhales.....that’s the trick.
Yearly wind energy production is also growing rapidly and has reached around 4% of worldwide electric power usage.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power
Not a waste. The right pockets were lined.