This will make Greta Thunberg happy. But it will make trees and flowers sad.
Posted on 10/13/2021 1:39:11 PM PDT by deport
“ow they can just dump the old blades in the ocean instead of burying them.”
Turn them into reefs. I want to know how they will do maintenance on these things.
#ing Rats
Maybe from the air, or train a godzilla to do it, either way the most expensive way possible.
This will make Greta Thunberg happy. But it will make trees and flowers sad.
We should be building nuclear power plants. But nooooooooooo
Will never work or be feasible. Then there is problem in replacing the wind blades which cannot be recycled just like solar panels, so where will they go, large landfills and where are the environmentalists on this, very silent. Of course the wind blades could be dumped into the ocean and maybe make new coral reefs.
One of two hurricanes coming through and goodbye wind turbines.
Better hope that no container ships drag their anchors over the cables.
Where will they put the blades when they wear out?
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the ocean is deep ...
The effect of offshore wind farms on marine life and birds are not yet fully understood.
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Because the birds they kill fall into the water and sink. They likely kill as many as the land counterparts
I use up that much in 1 and a half months in the summer. LOL
I generate 3 megawatts on my own in 2 months (in the summer) with my own solar panels. Screw the gubment helping us. Green energy is like everything else. When the gubment provides the "solution" they screw it up royally. The only way green energy has a chance of providing a significant portion of the power consumed is if it's decentralized (you doing it yourself and customizing it to meet your specific needs).
Giant wind turbines in hurricane alley. What could go wrong?
Not if the wind isn't blowing.
A shame the greenies have all but killed nuclear. It could be the saving grace we so desperately need.
By “very high” winds that damage them, I believe it is around 50 mph, cut off for all is at 55 mph. When the winds of November come, and power is needed, the turbines are worthless. Actually, they are pretty much inferior to coal, NG, Diesel, Hydro and Nuclear which produce 24/7/366 and the only effect on the climate is plant food or nuclear waste depending.
Will never work or be feasible.
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There are major wind farms around the USA and other parts of the world.
They want be anywhere close to the total capacity of other sources
of power such as coal, nuclear, natural gas but they are out there.
If any Nimby millionaire/billionaire can potentially see them from their oceanfront property, they will never be built.
It’s the bearings that burn up. Check out the Palm Springs
wind farm.
40 percent aren’t operating.....too expensive to replace the bearings.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average U.S. home uses 867 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per month. The mean turbine capacity in the U.S. Wind Turbine Database (USWTDB) is 1.67 megawatts (MW). At a 33% capacity factor, that average turbine would generate over 402,000 kWh per month - enough for over 460 average U.S. homes. To put it another way, the average wind turbine generates enough energy in 94 minutes to power an average U.S. home for one month..
If it requires 402k a month to operate 460 average homes, and here are over 128.45 million homes in the US in 2020, then that would mean they would need over 278K of the machines to handled the existing needs for just homes not including businesses.
Another problem is that turbulence the turbines creates so they must be separated.. Each wind turbine creates turbulence in the area behind and around it, so the turbines need to be spaced well apart from each other. The distances in this case are expressed in rotor diameters. The general rule-of-thumb for wind farm spacing is that turbines are about 7 rotor diameters away from each other. So an 80-meter (262-foot) rotor would need to be 560 meters — more than a third of a mile — from adjacent turbines. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have proposed that twice as much spacing would increase overall efficiency. So at nine a square mile, it would take almost 31K square miles to handle enough for the homes alone in the US not including the overlap needs of the outside row. 31K miles is just under 20M acres, again without the overlap of the outside of the placement. To give you an idea that’s roughly the size of South Carolina.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsm8_037652.htm
And he final note is who and how are they going to service these machines? Each turbine requires service under normal conditions 2 to 3 times a year. That doesn’t include break downs. The most common reason that turbines stop spinning is because the wind is not blowing fast enough. Most wind turbines need a sustained wind speed of 9 MPH or higher to operate. Additionally, The useful life of these wind turbines is supposed to be 20 years. However, the turbines have been plagued by numerous problems and this 20-year life is rather a utopia than anything else. Gearboxes and bearings in wind turbines, more than those in any other application, tend to fail prematurely. In fact, at some wind projects, up to half of all bearings inside the gearboxes fail within a few years. There are several reasons for this, including the poor understanding of gear functioning during storms and gusty winds, relative immaturity of the technology and industry, the rapid evolution of turbines to extra-large sizes, poor understanding of turbine loads, and an emerging (and largely unexplained) failure mode in turbine bearings called axial cracking.
And since this is just the machines themselves, I did not involve the cost of their installation and operation. Safe to say this is not a safe to say solution. And they want to put them in the ocean making it even more difficult and expensive to service and keep operating.
This is Biden’s Solyndra. Solyndra collapsed spectacularly in August 2011 after Obama tried to create financing to save it and reportedly delivered half a billion in taxpayer money to it. Just another socialist take over.
Wy69.
LOL.
Wait to those wind farms get a load of a cat 5 hurricane.
5.56mm
Which one of joes relatives owns the wind farm company?
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