Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach News hot off the presses, the madness spreads … UN calls for doubling renewable energy by 2030 (AFP) – 1 day ago WASHINGTON — UN…
Category: wind power
The ugly battle between rural residents and alternative energy mandates in California
Seems the Mojave evictions WERE to make way for solar and wind projects Guest post by Alec Rawls In 2006 California’s Senate Bill 107 codified a requirement that by 2010…
Hump Day Hilarity – Pot o'gold at the end of the green rainbow
Josh just can’t seem to stop drawing. After yesterday’s classic soon to be on T-shirts and mugs, we have this related to The GWPF study on the economic futility of…
New Report: Economic Analysis Reveals Wind Power 'Worse Than a Mistake'
Press release from The Global Warming Policy Foundation One of the UK’s leading energy and environment economists warns that wind power is an extraordinarily expensive and inefficient way of reducing…
Wind Turbine Syndrome affects more people than previously thought
by Mark Duchamp A survey was conducted on wind farm noise as part of a Master’s dissertation by Zhenhua Wang, a graduate student in Geography, Environment and Population at the…
Wind power plug pulled in Illinois
End of tax credit a blow for wind power industry Up to 37,000 jobs, many in Illinois, could be lost as projects are halted or abandoned By Julie Wernau, Chicago…
Windfarm noise – Renowned acoustician denounces double standards in noise regulations
UPDATE: Josh adds a cartoon and writes: An extraordinary quote from a Scottish Wind Farm Landowner. But with recent news that wind farms have been paid a secret £13 million compensation to…
The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled
By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of…
Utility-Scale Energy Storage and Zinc-Air Batteries
Apparently, this company (EOS) has overcome the recharge limitation that exists in conventional zinc-air batteries, and supposedly has several patents on the technology. If true, this technology would be a…
Windsplode in Scotland – plus some turbines can't handle 50mph
I wonder what the incident frequency is for wind turbine fires versus say coal, hydro, or nuclear plants? From STV Scotland:
Wind energy -vs- wildlife, public comments sought
John Droz writes in with this today: Anthony: A US federal agency, the Fish & Wildlife Service, is currently debating whether or not there will be national wildlife rules for…
Location location, location: Wind Turbine Power Output Increased 10x
Wind Turbine power output is increased ten-fold by careful spacing, and direction of rotation, when compared to existing best practices. Click image for video surveyGuest post by Roger E. Sowell…
Wind farm ordered dismantled
Mark Duchamp writes in with this news from the Lerida, Autonomous Community (state) of Catalonia, Spain: A judge ordered the removal of 45 wind turbines on the grounds that planning…
"Ant colony optimisation" for wind farms
I’m not sure where this is going, but the first thing I thought of was this old sci-fi movie “Them“: Via Eurekalert: Evolutionary lessons for wind farm efficiency Evolution is…
Why windmills won’t wash
Guest post by the Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Consider the Oldbury wind turbine, which WattsUpWithThat.com reveals was installed a couple of years ago at a primary school in the Midlands…
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