[E. Pluribus Unum]

Wind power is a complete disaster

"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)."

[FlingWingFlyer]

I sure wish I had kept an article that I had read a few months ago where an envirowacko openly admitted that wind farms aren’t worth a ****. The main objective of these wind mill fiascos is to remind us to save da planet. I could not believe what this envirowacko had admitted to in the article.

[Paladin2]

So, who has the operational plot output as a fraction of installed capacity vs. system % of peak demand?

[WayneS]

Periods of low wind can be avoided here in the U.S. by constructing wind mills on the White House lawns, next to the Capitol building and outside all senate and house office buildings.

[pyx]

Ah yes ... windmill efficiency.

[edcoil]

Several weeks ago I was listening to an “energy expert” and global power requirements. He says it would take 7,500 Hoover Dams - of 52 million wind farms to equal today’s needs.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[mad_as_he$$]

No surprise here on FR. We have been saying that for years. Guess it only carries weight if a green organization says it.

[The Great RJ]

Windmills not only generate no electricity when winds are too low, but also when winds are too high. Those large blades have to be "feathered" in high winds least they destroy themselves. video

[LibertarianLiz]

Wind farms are much less efficient than claimed

I am thinking of the Ann Coulter quote in which she states that she wishes she was a liberal so that she could be constantly surprised by the obvious.

Anyone who actually thought through this stuff would know that you simply cannot run a modern society on wind power.

[CrazyIvan]

A system based on the consistancy and predictability of weather being undependable and inneficient? Who could have known?

[Senator_Blutarski]

Jenny Hogan, director of policy for Scottish Renewables, said no form of electricity worked at 100% capacity, 100% of the time.

True, but coal fired plants don't need to run at 100% capacity to routinely cover our peak demand periods and they also provide backup power when the wind mills stand idle.

[Tallguy]

Hot days tend to generate peak demand due to the need for Air Conditioning. These are precisely the days when you don’t have a measurable amount of wind. Imagine that?

[delacoert]

bookmark

[tet68]

If they only generate 30% of their rated capacity,
shouldn’t that be their rated capacity?

[TheBigIf]

Great thread! Need to take a look tommorrow at this as well.

Thanks!