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…
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…
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…
From wysokienapiecie.pl All wind farms operating today in Poland will be scrapped by 2035, with no new turbines built to replace them, stipulates draft “Energy Policy of Poland until 2040” presented by Ministry of Energy on Friday. This is a political decision, the Minister explained. On Wednesday the government contracted with investors the construction of…
Updated Analysis of US Regional Power Generation, 2007–2015 Here’s an analysis from The Breakthrough Institute. Continuing to publish material with a different viewpoint~ctm From Breakthrough Institute July 13, 2017 | Michael Goff, Cheap natural gas has reduced carbon emissions on the US electricity grid more than anything else over the past decade. That’s the core…
From The GWPF Matt Ridley, The Times The liberalised energy markets introduced by Nigel Lawson in 1982, embraced by the Blair government and emulated across Europe, delivered both affordability and reliability. But they were abandoned. All three parties share the blame for Britain’s policy fiasco. Shortly before parliament broke up this month, there was a…
It’s time to really cut, cut, cut ethanol and other renewable fuel mandates – maybe to zero Paul Driessen The closest thing to earthly eternal life, President Ronald Reagan used to say, is a government program. Those who benefit from a program actively and vocally defend it, often giving millions in campaign cash to politicians…
From The Daily Mail The business secretary Greg Clark is expected to announce the plans this week The batteries will help wind and solar panel farms supply during high demand Government announced £246million fund for greener energy solutions in April By Mail Online Reporter Speaking to the Sunday Times, he said: ‘We get 14 per…
At The Register, Andrew Orlowski attended the talk and has a news article describing Steve McIntyre’s talk at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, which was an event hosted by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. McIntyre’s statement on wind power is interesting: The entire rationale of policy in US and Europe has been to…
– and protect environmental values, endangered species, jobs and human welfare Guest post by Paul Driessen Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough. Informed and inspired by a loose but growing national coalition of groups opposed to…