I have to smile when I read how “wonderful”wind power is....but what happens when the wind fails, behind every wind generator, there is a fossil fuel electrical generator, ready to assume the power load the second the wind slows/stops...
The other issue is, how much fossil fuel is required to make a wind generator....and, how many years of wind generation is required to pay back the energy required to make the wind power generator...I suggest it would require 20 to 30 years to pay back the fuel consummed in the fabrication of one wind generator....
“I suggest it would require 20 to 30 years to pay back the fuel consummed in the fabrication of one wind generator....”
One thing I’m not seeing is meaningful statistics on wind power. For instance, how much electricity does a windmill generate, and what proportion of our total need can windmills provide? How many windmills would that take?
If this were a good thing, I think people would be rushing to put their own money into it.