Cultural motivations for wind and solar renewables deployment
“For me the question now is, now that we know that renewables can’t save the planet, are we going to keep letting them destroy it?”. – Michael Schellenberger
German Electricity Imports Hit New Record, Rise 43.3 Percent in First Half Of 2020!
You would think that with all the added wind and solar energy in Germany, along with all the conventional power plants on standby, all totaling up to huge unneeded capacity, there would be no need to import any power at all. Well, think again.
Schizophrenic German Wind Power Output In August, Plagued By Wild Volatility
Here’s another example illustrating just how volatile and unreliable wind energy really is.
Weaknesses of solar and wind, Myths and Questions that require an answer
It is claimed that wind and solar are the cheapest sources of electricity and these sources should dominate future electricity supply. This paper focuses on known additional costs and subsidies which are not taken into account in the costs of wind and solar put forward by their advocates.
The dangerous winds of trying to prevent climate change
Inconvenient facts show why wind energy is not renewable, sustainable or climate-friendly Duggan Flanakin Wind turbines continue to be the most controversial of so-called “renewable” energy sources worldwide. But, you say, wind is surely renewable. It blows intermittently, but it’s natural, free, renewable and climate-friendly. That’s certainly what we hear, almost constantly. However, while the…
The Giga And Terra Scam Of Offshore Wind Energy
The latest “renewable, sustainable” energy claims show the IEA belongs in an insane asylum Paul Driessen Can anti-fossil fuel policies based on climate crisis alarmism possibly get any more insane than this? In what might be described as a pre-Halloween trick of ginormous proportions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) now asserts that “renewable, sustainable” energy…
Wind turbine design and placement can mitigate negative effect on birds
University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences URBANA, Ill. – Wind energy is increasingly seen as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, as it contributes to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. It is estimated that by 2050, wind turbines will contribute more than 20% of the global electricity supply. However, the…
Revision to: Wind Farm Back-of-the-Envelope Economic Analysis
Guest post by Larry F. Brown, PhD Various commenters pointed out to me that I made an error in my calculations. First, the maintenance man told me the turbines were designed to produce 2.3 MW but only produce an average of 1.3 MW. I then reduced the 1.3 by about 80% because I found that…
Wind Farm Back-of-the-Envelope Economic Analysis
Guest post by Larry F. Brown, PhD We visited a wind farm in southern Utah recently. I’ve always been curious about the costs, profitability, and physical size of these things as well as the footprint and environmental impact. I had 3 meetings with the man in charge of maintenance of the wind farm, a landowner…
Tilting at Windmills – a Brief Update
About this time last year, I wrote a light-hearted review of New Zealand’s love affair with Wind Generation. Since then I’ve become interested in seeing just how effective these things really are. Where I live adjacent to a string of Turbines, we get some pretty impressive winds – 150Kph is not that unusual. But we…