Wind Turbine Failures Becoming More Frequent, Wind Power Costs Rise as Wildlife Affected Negatively
Wind turbines across the United States have been failing more frequently in recent times, triggering concerns about additional costs resulting from such failures as well as their impact on wind power projects. Offshore wind farms, deployed in the name of e...
Nasty, good for nothing bird killers. Difficult to dispose of as well, from what I know.
I drove through Tehachapi, CA two weeks ago. It was some of the most beautiful country I have ever laid eyes on, except for the turbines littered everywhere. Picturesque landscape ruined by these useless monsters.
Where are you in Utah? I live in St. George and have driven pretty much all over Utah and I haven't seen them.
I detest those nasty fans....
I live near one of the largest wind farms in the US, the Amazon Wind Farm in northeastern NC. All the electricity is sent directly to Amazon in Virginia by a separate set of powerlines. I don't care if the whole lot fall over, except for them being in farmland. There are over 150 of them, and each one has a service building, driveway, and parking lot, with miles of roads connecting them. There are plans for building over 100 more. They spent a lot of money on these, as they were shipped in at Morehead City, NC and then driven on big trucks up here. And it takes multiple trucks for each windmill, as they are in pieces.
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WIND TUNNELS
Five years ago—in 2014—Yahoo! News reported that wind turbines are responsible for killing over 573,000 birds annually. Bird scientist Shawn Smallwood testified that one large solar farm alone—the Ivanpah solar panel project in California—likely kills 28,380 birds annually.
The same executives jetting around the world and residing in mansions want to send the rest of us back to the caveman era.
As birds die and billionaires binge, poor people pay higher prices—and face energy shortages thanks to the Democrat push for “clean” energy.
https://townhall.com/columnists/katiekieffer/2019/09/23/29-billion-bird-deaths-linked-to-solar-wind-n2553475
Point of information. Ivanpah is mirrors not solar panels. That is why the birds get frizzled. Oh, and it uses gas to get warmed up in the morning. Would you believe it, it goes cold over night? Who knew?
I once did a calculation based on Ivanpah to see how many such sites it would take to replace the UK's biggest power station. My calculations showed that it would take about 400 square miles of mirrors. I am not sure how we could fit the number required into the UK.
Frequency increases in terms of absolute numbers should be expected since people are building more windmills as fast as they can get government funds.
Frequency increase in terms of rates (absolute numbers divided by total number of windmills) should not be expected, unless quality is going off a cliff.