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World’s First Offshore Wind Farm Retires: A Post-Mortem
Global Warming Policy Forum ^
| October 18, 2017
| I.M.J. Kelly
Posted on 10/20/2017 1:59:35 PM PDT by Twotone
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posted on
10/20/2017 1:59:35 PM PDT
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Twotone
To: Twotone
So it didn’t work like they said it would.
We would call that lying if a car salesman did it.
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:02:33 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Twotone
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:02:57 PM PDT
by
Autonomous User
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
To: Twotone
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:03:33 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(They hate Trump because he had the audacity to be elected president without their permission.)
To: Twotone
Installation costs?
Anyone die installing it?
British speak...Brilliant!!!
Don Quitote!!!
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:06:11 PM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(The Left's family value: 'The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!' (Che Guevara, 1961))
To: Twotone
Wind and solar power for homes is a joke.
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:06:27 PM PDT
by
exnavy
(America: love it or leave it.)
To: Twotone
Apparently wind energy costs more than it saves.
More stupid government stuff they have no business doing.
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:08:04 PM PDT
by
Jim W N
To: Twotone
Very interesting statistics.
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:09:36 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Jim 0216
But it made people feel good. And in the final analysis, isn’t that what matters?
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:10:29 PM PDT
by
The Antiyuppie
("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
To: Jeff Chandler
How many sea birds did their failed experiment kill?
I like to call them ‘bird filters’.
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:16:43 PM PDT
by
glasseye
("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." ~ H. L. Mencken)
To: CincyRichieRich
To: Twotone
So a $10Bn pound investment produced 243 GWh of power over a 25 year period, or nearly 10GWh per year. Perhaps you had better do the math.
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:19:36 PM PDT
by
bigbob
(People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
To: Twotone
Does the post-mortem include the millions of birds and bats killed during its lifetime?
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:19:46 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: Twotone
Operational in 1991? Well that didn’t last long.
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:24:26 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Anime is real.)
To: Twotone
"the windmill spent 75% of its life paying off the £10 million cost of its construction, and most of the rest paying for maintenance. In terms of effective energy revenue, the return on input cost was close to 1:1. ...For a typical fossil-fuel plant, effective energy revenue return on input cost is of the order of 50:1 if one considers the plant alone and about 15:1 when one includes the cost of the fuel. For a nuclear plant the ratio is more like 70:1..."For a project promising to accommodate a doubling of the world population, wind power appears to fall short of even the most pessimistic expectations in every environment. Will the enviroweenie cult admit they were, once again, wrong in their utopian pipedreaming?
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:25:21 PM PDT
by
blueplum
( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
To: exnavy
I just saw on ‘Ask this Old House’ that in Hawaii the utilities are no longer accepting power from private sources such as solar. So the individuals who have solar now have to install specialized batteries to store their power because there is no where else to send it.
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:26:44 PM PDT
by
Parmy
To: exnavy
Wind and solar power for homes is a joke.Not as a supplemental source, when installations and maintenance become cost-effective. But the wind does stop, and there are cloudy days. Good ol' fossil fuel works regardless.
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:39:11 PM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Twotone
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:45:59 PM PDT
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: Parmy
It’s called “grid saturation”. With solar the idea is to make 24hrs worth of power in a 5-6hr time period each day. The grid capacity is only so big and it’s not that there is no place to send the excess power - it’s the fact that the wires are only so big and can handle only so much current. Which means there is no way to get the excess power onto the grid without upsizing equipment (ie. - mucho $$$).
Saturation levels have been raised to 100% (up from 25%) of the grid capacity for the time of day that solar generates.
To: Twotone
The windfarm is now a was.
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posted on
10/20/2017 2:50:25 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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