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 …
Category: Wind Energy
Myth Busting in Renewable Energy
Tagged with: discredit the clean energy, each wind turbine freeway will generate at least 18 times as much energy as was required in mining fabrication installation maintenance and decommissioning, energy return on investment, EROI, generation of disinformation of renewables has become a cottage industry, keep Big Oil in place, Myth Busting in Renewable Energy, the EROI of wind is somewhere between 18 and 30, wind and solar are controversial
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.
The Value of Wind Energy
Wind contributes about 12% of the U.S. grid mix, though it’s over 70% in some of the plains states. As one reader pointed out, “It’s great for the common American. Sorry it doesn’t work for billionaires.”
More Renewable Energy Fraud
Here are people who want $200 from you. They say: For years, people accepted that small wind turbines did not work. Too loud. Too fragile. Too unreliable. The problem was never the wind. It was the Design. We stopped trying …
Rooftop Wind
My doctor, who knows that I understand physics and renewable energy in particular, asked me today what I thought about wind turbines on boats. I explained that, since boats need their own ways to generate electricity, what is called “small …
Rhetorical Questions
How many seas must the white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand? How may ventures in small, rooftop wind must fail before we learn that this entire concept is doomed? The answer is blowin’ in the wind. Seriously, …
Trump Has “Stopped All Wind Turbines”
There are 80K wind turbines operating in the United States as we speak, as suggested to anyone driving through the windy areas of the California deserts or West Texas. Maybe you’re an anti-science climate denier moron, but doesn’t basic honesty …
Last Call for Small Wind
Here’s a company looking for investors in their small wind concept. They write: For years, people accepted that small wind turbines did not work. Too loud. Too fragile. Too unreliable. The problem was never the wind. It was the Design. …
Tagged with: cost of a kilowatt-hour of electricity, large wind generates incredibly more power than small wind, looking for investors in their small wind concept, regions that have huge wind speeds are generally places that human beings don't want to live, Small wind has been dead for about 15 years, small wind turbines did not work, small wind vanished from the face of the Earth, swept area of an industry-standard wind turbine, The power delivered from a wind turbine is proportionate to the cube of the wind velocity, wind farms are located in wide open spaces elevated high above the ground
Wind Energy Kites
As previously discussed, one of the most important features of the renewable energy industry is that it has winnowed out certain technologies while focusing on others. “The winners have won and the losers have lost,” as I like to say. …
