Wind Power Fails On Every Count

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    So says Wade Allison, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford in a new report to the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

    “If the wind speed is 10 metres per second (about 20 mph) the power is 600 watts per square metre at 100% efficiency.2 That means to deliver the same power as Hinkley Point C (3200 million watts) by wind would require 5.5 million square metres of turbine swept area – that should be quite unacceptable to those who care about birds and to other environmentalists. But the performance of wind is much worse than that, as a look at the simple formula shows. Because the power carried by the wind depends on the third power of the wind speed, if the wind drops to half speed, the power available drops by a factor of 8.

    Almost worse, if the wind speed doubles, the power delivered goes up 8 times, and as a result the turbine has to be turned off for its own protection.“

    https://www.thegwpf.org/content/upl...nergy.pdf?mc_cid=5c197dfa62&mc_eid=4961da7cb1
     
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    It works in some isolated instances or in combination with other things, but never as the principal form of electric generation. As I have said in the past, Progressives are judged on intentions, not results. We have a wind farm here that was scheduled for expansion, but the expansion was halted because nobody would buy the wind power--too expensive. The electricity generated by the wind farm is almost twice as expensive per KWH as that produced by natural gas. Just the maintenance of the turbine blade is an issue as you probably know, and disposing of broken or damaged blades is problematic to say the least.
     
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