Wind Power

Worlds most unreliable and expensive form of energy link

Mike Mills Prager link

wind power economics link

Green new deal, fact vs fiction Stoessel link

UK suckered by big wind, Darwall link

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Study renewable energy not working, Delingpole link

No such thing as clean energy, report link

Washington State, why wind isnt the solution link

To sum up, wind farms require a lot of carbon dioxide-emitting concrete, steel, aluminum, plastics, rare earths and other materials. They disturb natural air flows. They decimate bird and bat populations, and cause infrasound and light-flicker that impair human health, while generating relatively little electricity at low capacity and high cost. Dead turbine blades overwhelm landfills.

Baseload power definition link

Dismall economics of offshore wind link

shellenberger link

Democrats climate plans will endanger species Environmentalists fear link

UK frequency events link

CFACT articles link

40 problems with farmer wind leases link

Many challenges of  renewable energ video link

Michael Moore movie link

Each MW wind power requires 870 cubic meters of concrete and 460 tons of steel, natural gas 27 and 3.3

Wind and solar provide zero energy to the grid link

Wind power is not clean, green, and provides almost zero global energy link

No clean link

Costly wind power threatens man and nature link

Scotland, 13.9 million trees removed to install wind turbines 2000-2019. link

Scotland trees link

cause surface warming link

killing entire species birds link

Study, impact of wind tower on wildlife and the environment link

Threaten species with extinction link

Kills 75% of birds in the area link

Birds, blade speed link

Green killing machines link

killing whales link

Driving bats extinct link

Ten myths wildlife ( birds cats etc) link

UK seabird population plummets at location of large offshore wind farm,The report is full of depressing statistics. Herring Gulls are down 82%, European Shag down 51%, Razorbills down 55%. The list goes on. link

UK seabirds face extinction with offshore wind plan link

German wind lobby asks to water down endangered species protections link

lights link link

Wind power warnin lights...at night link

In a study sponsored by the United States Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, 377 observations of five wind facilities in Wyoming and Colorado were made under various lighting and weather conditions. The facilities were found to be visible to the unaided eye at >58 km (36 mi) under optimal viewing conditions, with turbine blade movement often visible at 39 km (24 mi). link

Noise

Dutch become climate refugees, noise is unbearable link

Frank Keating former Oklahoma Governor, wind a big problem link

Large scale wind power increases CO2 emissions link

Nuclear safer, France 0 nuke deaths, 190 wind link

subsidies...federal subsidies, tax equity financing, state quotas.

Why wind turbines fail link

New York State, failed results link

New York state cost of wind power link

2,000MW Indian Point nuclear plant being decommissioned. There were 94 days during the summer season. On 41 of those days, the 1,987 MW of installed wind capacity generated a daily average of less than 200 MW. There were only 17 days during which the average daily output exceeded 500 MW, or 25 percent of installed capacity, and only three days that output exceeded 40 percent of installed capacity.

Even more troubling was the output during a typical summer day. While demand for electricity peaked from noon until 6 p.m., output from the wind turbines was generally highest at night, dropping during those hot, humid, still afternoons, often to the point of actually producing zero megawatts of electricity.

On average, the 1,987 MW of wind capacity delivered 306 MW throughout the summer, or 15.4 percent of installed capacity.

Blades can not be recycled, piling up in landfills bloomberg link

Waste problem link 43 million tons of used blades by 2050 link Wyoming landfill link tossedinto a dump link

millions of tons link

landfill link

dumped in landfill. Which should worry locals: the plastics in the blades are highly toxic, and contain Bisphenol A, which is so dangerous to health that the European Union and Canada have banned it.Now, why is the Wind Power Industry discarding its blades in landfills? Unfortunately, due to the way the blades are manufactured, it isn’t economical or practical to recycle them even though some small-scale recycling has been done. Here is an image from the Low-Tech Magazine website explaining why the large wind turbine blades aren’t recyclable:The wind turbine blades are a toxic amalgam of unique composites, fiberglass, epoxy, polyvinyl chloride foam, polyethylene terephthalate foam, balsa wood, and polyurethane coatings. So, basically, there is just too much plastic-composite-epoxy crapola that isn’t worth recycling. Again, even though there are a few small recycling centers for wind turbine blades, it isn’t economical to do on a large scale.

Texas, sometimes a greener grid means a 40,000% increase in power prices link

Texas power prices climb higher than the national average link

Multiple pics of wind turbines on fire link

UK Blackout risk link

MD wind, 1.7 billion subsidy over 20 years link

Rare Earths problem link

Moray project, who is the patsy link

Why wind power threatens endangered species with extinction link

176 billion crony capitalism link

Green killing machines link

US wind seasonality link

Cape Wind, case of crony environmentalism link

UK seabird population plummets at location of large offshore wind farm,The report is full of depressing statistics. Herring Gulls are down 82%, European Shag down 51%, Razorbills down 55%. The list goes on. link

States with large and growing wind power, electricity prices increasing much faster than national average link

Why commercial fishermen oppose offshore east coast USA wind turbines link

Capacity factor summer winter wind power USA midwest link

parasitic power consumption link

The study, which analyzed almost 3,000 turbines, found that twice as much electricity is generated in the first year after construction than is generated 15 years after construction. The same study found the bigger the wind farms, the more efficiency declines. This means that soon after we finish building all the wind turbines needed to get to 100 percent renewable electricity generation, assuming it can be completed in ten years, we’ll have to begin the process of replacing all the turbines. 

Report, green energy crisis Europe. Wind 4-5% dependable elec capacity. link

12 Euro nations did not install a single wind turbine in 2018 link

Wind slowing down in USA, worst 4th quarter winds in 30 years link

Bill Gates slams the idea of batteries and intermittent power link

global energy by source link

One lesson why wind and solar won't work link

From the International Energy Agency’s 2016 Key Renewables Trends, we can see that wind provided 0.46 per cent of global energy consumption in 2014, and solar and tide combined provided 0.35 per cent. Energy demand growing 2%, need about 350,000 2MW wind turbines annually to supply just the growth. In 50 years, cover the size of Russia. Wind turbines need about 200 times as much material per unit of capacity as a modern combined cycle gas turbine.

Study of 3,000 UK wind turbines finds they are wearing out in 12-15 years, not the 20-25 years expected. The study estimates that routine wear and tear will more than double the cost of electricity being produced by wind farms in the next decade. Produce twice as much power in first year as year 15,  the efficiency rating of a turbine based on the percentage of electricity it actually produces compared with its theoretical maximum — is reduced from 24 per cent in the first 12 months of operation to just 11 per cent after 15 years. The decline in the output of offshore wind farms, based on a study of Danish wind farms, appears even more dramatic. The load factor for turbines built on platforms in the sea is reduced from 39 per cent to 15 per cent after 10 years. The Study examined the output of 282 wind farms —about 3,000 turbines in total — in the UK and a further 823 onshore wind farms and 30 offshore wind farms in Denmark. Guardian link link

41 reasons why wind power can not replace fossil fuels link

Why increasing UK wind 7 fold won't work link

UK, paying wind turbines 630 million pounds not to produce power link

Britain, weeks without any wind power link

Exellent article the failure of UK wind and solar link

Bats, Scientific American, the surprising way wind turbines kill bats link

UK seabird population plummets at location of large offshore wind farm,The report is full of depressing statistics. Herring Gulls are down 82%, European Shag down 51%, Razorbills down 55%. The list goes on. link

What happens when you build more wind capacity than demand (UK) link

Scotland, wind racket link

Scotland, 13.9 million trees removed to install wind turbines 2000-2019. link

Cost of power highest in countries with most wind and solar link

Australian aluminum smelter forced to shut down due to energy spike caused by over reliance on unreliable wind and solar power, would lose 5 million an hour link

Ontario erects 8,000 wind turbines, energy prices tripple over 15 years, wind turbines account for 4% of energy production and 20% of the cost link

prices Chart of Euro electricity increases past 10 years link

EU 28 cost of household power double G20, industrial electricity 50% higher link

Euro more renewables higher power costs chart link

Collapse of German wind power. Thousands of turbines will lose their subsidies and will be decommissioned. link

Germany, wind turbines wildly unpopular link

German wind lobby asks to water down endangered species protections link

German collapsing power solar/wind, adding capacity makes it worse link

Germany, overdose on renewable energy link

Nearly 4 million Germans threatened with power disconnection due to high cost of electricity link

German wind and solar hit brick wall link

Chart Germany wind capacity vs production link

Chart Germany wind capacity vs production link

German maxed out grid causing trouble throughout Europe link

Germany's shift to green power stalls in spite of huge investments link

German wind in serious meltdown mode link

Renewables myth, German grid relies on hydro and coal to balance it, Norway, Poland link

Replace fossil fuels? German wind and solar capped at 12%, though can produce up to 19% of power from wind and solar but must export 1/3rd of this energy. Wind and solar power increasing but CO2 emissions not declining. link

Wind power will warm planet by .24 C degrees and needs 5-20 times more land than previously thought link 

Off Shore wind power, expensive and riskly link

The many reasons why renewables are not a complete solution link

The duck curve link

Seasonality of wind and solar in California link

Texas Near blackout due to lack of wind, also town trying to go 100% newable link

By the hour link

Wind and solar power as a percent of US state and Eurp energy and cost  link

Rewables 3.6% of global energy production link

Wind turbines wear out sooner than expected link

10 papers numerous health issues from wind link

Why wind and solar won't work for India link

Offshore wind, fraudulent fiasco link

Offshore wind is also very expensive. The first U.S. offshore wind farm went online off Rhode Island in 2017 — at $150,000 per household powered. The newest U.S. nuclear reactor cost $4.7 billion but powers 4.5 million homes — at $1,040 per household.

Rhode Island offshore wind electricity costs 24.4 cents/kWh today. Under its contractual price escalator of 3.5 percent a year, in 20 years Rhode Island consumers will be paying twice that.

University of Juan Carlos study link

Utah State University, unseen costs of wind power link

Wind speeds decreasing globally link

Wind Power Fraud link

So, how did New York state’s wind turbines do during the past summer?

There were 94 days during the summer season. On 41 of those days, the 1,987 MW of installed wind capacity generated a daily average of less than 200 MW. There were only 17 days during which the average daily output exceeded 500 MW, or 25 percent of installed capacity, and only three days that output exceeded 40 percent of installed capacity.

Even more troubling was the output during a typical summer day. While demand for electricity peaked from noon until 6 p.m., output from the wind turbines was generally highest at night, dropping during those hot, humid, still afternoons, often to the point of actually producing zero megawatts of electricity.

three principal subsidies of wind and solar. The three subsidies are direct federal subsidies, tax equity financing, and state quotas for renewable energy.

three principal subsidies of wind and solar. The three subsidies are direct federal subsidies, tax equity financing, and state quotas for renewable energy.

subsidies A huge chunk of that taxpayer money has gone directly to companies in which the largest shareholder is the Communist Party of China (CCP).

According to an analysis last year by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC), which goes to “corporations who either erect new wind turbines or refurbish turbines.” has cost U.S. taxpayers $65.1 billion. A huge chunk of that taxpayer money has gone directly to companies in which the largest shareholder is the Communist Party of China (CCP).

Solar Power

According to an analysis from The Heartland Institute, this Green New Deal scheme would require huge swaths of land to implement. Generating electric power entirely from solar panels would require 57,048 square miles of land—an area equivalent to the size of New York and Vermont—for 18.8 billion solar panels. And, a shift to wind power would require 2.12 million turbines on 500,682 square miles of land—an area equivalent to Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, and much of West Virginia.

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cost vs fossil fuels

Wind and solar cost 2-3 times more than fossil fuels link

European wind-solar costs six times more than conventional power sources link

Baseload power definition link

if solar is so clean why does it produce so much toxic waste link

shellenberger link

Rooftop

The absurdity of the situation is illustrated by the fact that rooftop electricity, even with subsidies, costs around 20-cents per kWh, but generating electricity in existing natural gas plants costs 1.5 cents per kWh for fuel. A concrete case might work like this: A homeowner uses 1500 kWh per month and has an average electric bill of $300 or 20-cents per kWh. He installs a 10-kilowatt (kW) system that costs $36,000, but due to the federal subsidy, he only pays $26,000. He finances the system for 25-years at 6% interest. His monthly payment is $169.  With net metering, the 10-kW system is large enough to zero out his electric bill. Instead of paying $300 a month for electricity, he now pays only $169, a savings of $131 each month. The saving will actually be less due to maintenance costs and a typically small connection charge from the electric utility. But for the electric utility this deal is a disaster. The utility loses $300 per month revenue but saves about $22 in fuel cost. The connection charge in the absence of electricity consumption is typically negligible compared to the expense of maintaining the connection. link

Solar panels require sixteen times more materials in the form of cement, glass, concrete, and steel than do nuclear plants, and create three hundred times more waste. “You would have been better off just burning fossil fuels in the first place,” said one expert, “instead of just playing pretend. We’re basically just being fed a lie.”  This relies on the most toxic industrial processes we’ve ever created

Mining link

Germany, overdose on renewable energy link

 In a nutshell, solar isn’t profitable even in Queesland because the lines are long, transmission loses are large, the electricity comes when customers don’t need it, and the government keeps insisting the solar farms pay for “grid stability” because the grid needs it, and solar doesn’t supply it.

Wind and solar power are the intermittent freeloaders on the electricity grid. They are treated as if they’re generators, adding power to the grid, but instead they provide something the grid doesn’t need — power that can’t be guaranteed.

Crescent Dunes closes(737m loan guarantee) link

Why solar power wont work link

Study, wind performance declines over time article study link

Green killing machines link

Solar farms have been known to melt the wings of thousands of birds, generate 300 times more toxic waste than nuclear energy and increase nitrogen trifluoride emissions, a greenhouse gas that is 17,000 times stronger than carbon dioxide. 

Solar farms also require up to 5,000 times more land than nuclear plants and 10-15 times 7 more concrete, cement, steel and glass, putting increased demand on the minerals needed to create solar farms. 

As of now, the national average for solar facilities is between 5 and 7 watts per square meter.

Australia rooftop 2 billion annual subsidy, $200 annual per household link

One lesson why wind and solar won't work link

From the International Energy Agency’s 2016 Key Renewables Trends, we can see that wind provided 0.46 per cent of global energy consumption in 2014, and solar and tide combined provided 0.35 per cent

How wind and solar increase electricity prices link

30 cents per kWh rooftop solar 3 energy saves 2 cents of natural gas energy, hardly an efficient ratio link

30 cents a kWh to save 2 cents link

NSW $220mwh to $14,000 link

Australian aluminum smelter forced to shut down due to energy spike caused by over reliance on unreliable wind and solar power, would lose 5 million an hour link

German wind and solar hit brick wall link

German collapsing power solar/wind, adding capacity makes it worse link

Nevada solar, real cost vs nat gas link

The duck curve (article) link

The duck curve (graph) link

Duck curve video link

The duck curve link

The many reasons why renewables are not a complete solution link

Solar installations down 26% in 2018 link

Negative energy prices impact link

Solar energy produces 300 times more taxic waste than nuclear power per unit of energy link

waste link

Seasonality of California wind and solar power link

Wind and solar as a percentage of US and Euro energy and cost link

Euro more renewables higher power costs chart  link

Renewables 3.6% of global energy production link

Sunset for wind jobs in Germany link

Excellent article on the failure of UK wind and solar link

Why wind and solar won't work for India link

University of Juan Carlos study link

Replace fossil fuels? German wind and solar capped at 12%, though can produce up to 19% of power from wind and solar but must export 1/3rd of this energy. Wind and solar power increasing but CO2 emissions not declining. link

A concrete case might work like this: A homeowner uses 1500 kWh per month and has an average electric bill of $300 or 20-cents per kWh. He installs a 10-kilowatt (kW) system that costs $36,000, but due to the federal subsidy, he only pays $26,000. He finances the system for 25-years at 6% interest. His monthly payment is $169.  With net metering, the 10-kW system is large enough to zero out his electric bill. Instead of paying $300 a month for electricity, he now pays only $169, a savings of $131 each month. The saving will actually be less due to maintenance costs and a typically small connection charge from the electric utility.