As a PhD colleague once told me, “If you don’t care how much you pay for electricity, I’ll get you all the renewable energy you could ever ask for.” In this case, I’d guess the average price per kwh for …
Category: Wind Energy
Scientific Illiteracy
Neil DeGrasse Tyson says that our problem isn’t that our children don’t understand science, but that our adults don’t. Three comments: 1) Wind is not a finite resource as long as the sun comes up every morning and disproportionately heats …
Tagged with: earth science, Neil deGrasse Tyson, our children don't understand science, Putting one's ignorance of public display is not a strong idea, rural Texas, scientific illiteracy, sun disproportionately heats the Earth's surface, Wind is not a finite resource as long as the sun comes up every morning
Bladeless Wind Turbines?
Wind turbines work by extracting some of the kinetic energy from moving air and transferring it to the blades that move in a circle. No moving parts means no kinetic energy. Sorry.
He Hates Those Wind Turbines!
Actually, he hates everything that promotes the wellbeing of the common person. What does he love? Anything that makes him richer and more powerful, which includes things that will earn him the support of hateful idiots. The Chinese own 0.036% …
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More Crap on Small Wind
Every ad I see for these people contains at least one–often several–glaring inaccuracies. Do you really believe that utility-scale wind turbines are: a) Fixed in position, and don’t adjust for wind direction? Just look it up; it only takes a …
From the Independent: “Trump Administration to Pay Two More Companies to Walk Away from U.S. Offshore Wind Leases”
From this article in The Independent: The Trump administration announced two more payouts Monday for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development. Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind have agreed to end their offshore wind leases in …
Another Concept in Small Wind
These guys have an innovation in small wind: their turbine “furls up” in dangerously high wind conditions, making it “perfect for your backyard.” Check out this video. The competition has to shut down to avoid having their product destroyed in …
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Myth Busting in Renewable Energy
I met a guy earlier today who told me that wind and solar are controversial, and that some people say that the mining and manufacturing of wind turbines requires more fossil fuels than the turbines themselves produce. I told him …
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How Much Energy Is Required to Build a Wind Turbine?
I was shocked (not really) to learn that people are being paid to create and post memes that troll the renewable energy industry, even if they have no basis in fact. What we have at left is a great example. …
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Low-Cost Wind Power?
I wonder why this is an artist’s rendering and not a photograph of an actual installation. Maybe it’s because the cost per KWh will be off the charts.
