Wind Power: What Happens When the Wind Doesn't Blow?

Hotair ^ | 08/04/2025 | David Strom

[dragnet2]

What Happens When the Wind Doesn’t Blow?

It sucks.

[nickcarraway]

They can harness telekinetic energy.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

[chief lee runamok]

[decal]

The same thing that happens when it blows too hard and breaks the blades - nothing good.

Perhaps some judge around here can force the wind to blow between 10 and 30 mph at all times.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I messed up the link.

https://www.law.utoronto.ca/blog/faculty/wind-power-complete-disaster

[FlingWingFlyer]

DemonRATS and liberals pick up the slack.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

What Happens When the Wind Doesn't Blow?

That's OK, all of the democRATs do.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Dunkelflaute.

In Germany: No wind. No sun. No green energy. Sucks to be green during Dunkelflaute time.

[A strike]

Awesome this was published in The Telegraph
rub Eurogreenies noses in it..

[crusty old prospector]

The virtue signalers got p’wned.

[vpintheak]

Green fools will tell you “batteries, duh!”
Neglecting to think about the mining involved in batteries, rare earth minerals, the max cycles that batteries can go thru before having to be replaced, recycling those batteries.

[gildafarrell]

What else but get the coal-fired furnace to push wind power.

[hinckley buzzard]

Batteries are good for about four hours. No matter now many of them you have hooked up, if the dunkelflaute lasts a whole day or more, you’re sunk.

[Secret Agent Man]

It it blows to little, it doesnt work

If it blows too much, it doesnt work

[nuke_road_warrior]

Britain turns into a de-industrialized third world country. Germany and try rest of the EU either follows or forgoes the “magic unicorn of wind power” and becomes a Russian client state. Meanwhile on the other side of the pond, New York, California, et.al. are heading down the same road to Hell.

[Oscar in Batangas]

On the farm in the 1950s if the wind didn’t blow, we used the pump handle to get water out of the well. - - - No big deal and we had no idea who that Handel feller was, anyway.

[trebb]

On a trip to my daughter, in the Southern tier of NY State, I noticed a lot of hills/mountain tops with windmills on them - only about 1 in 5 were turning.

[oldtech]

If it sucks, do you then get reverse rotation on the turbine blades? Any fool can see that wind power is not even close to completely dependable or even mostly dependable. It has it’s place where dependability is not a major issue, but not as a completely reliaiable power source.