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A wind farm is a creepy place. I can’t see how anybody could live on one.
My wife says that when I drink beer.
Wind generators do work , I have installed many on sailboats and in that enviorment they are capable of keeping the batteries up a small refer system going with cold beer and frozen food and some lighting . In a large commercial operation with systems rivaling aircraft design and technology catastrophic failures can always be expected .
Regardless nothing can give us the convertible power of fossil fuels yet ,however breakthroughs in technology and engineering is always a breath away .
Without government intervention into the market, we would probably be much further along with even far superior technology. But government picks winners and losers, instead of consumers, so no wonder things are as screwed up as they are.
Wind power blows. I have wind up the yahoo here but am still only interested in hydro.
The number of migrating birds they kill is enormous….but kept well hidden. Yeah, environmentally friendly my ass!
By the time you pay for them and then pay to continuously maintain them, they end up costing more than they yield during their limited shelf-life.
My understanding is that your 2 noted costs are incidental compared to the 100% backup necessary should Nature not blow when needed. After all, any production means (eg hydro/ coal) must be 1st built & then maintained, whether at higher of lower $ per KWH. Such production necessarily occurs with wind, as in Britain/ Germany.
The same follows through downstream – got a Nissan Leaf ? What’s your Plan B when Aunt Mabel’s funeral is day after tomorrow, 500 miles away, – 20 degrees?
Buddy of mine here in the Pac NW does heavy industry pump/ compressor work. On the way to an xmas company dinner he got a call from BC Hydro: ‘Burrard’s down. Now.’ 3 forks simultaneously stopped moving from plate to mouth at 3 homes across the Lower Mainland, 3 of the best in BC walked out on their families & ran something like 50 hours labour each in an $18K weekend, no questions asked. And that was only to patch it to meet legal demands.
BC Hydro handed him the legal stuff as he walked in. Basically, entities have sworn to back each other up – Idaho can tap into Washington but BC then goes to Orange in case California drops. If anyone ain’t ready – well, nobody talks about that. So don’t talk – get scared & start billing.
And Burrard, then, in the ’90’s, was old & dual-fired (oil/ NG).
Mother Nature is petulant. My buddy doesn’t deal with petulant.
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We are ONLY ever ALLOWED to see one side of the equation – the side that makes THEM look good. You never get to see ALL the costs, all the possibilities, all the impacts, all of the environmental costs to produce the products, etc…..because that would undermine the narrative and the “Big Lie” that they need to keep repeating and repeating until everyone “gets it.”
Too bad that’s totally fake. If the wind was that much to make the turbine go that fast and shred….those pieces wouldn’t have nicely floated down next to the turbine.