Wind Turbines Are Destroying the Planet
Frontpage Mag,
by
Daniel Greenfield
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
8/19/2022 3:27:58 PM
New York, along with other states, is moving forward with massive wind turbine projects.
The push for "9,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy" comes at a high price, not only for families who are left dependent on expensive and unreliable energy, but for the planet.
Wind turbines require massive amounts of rare earths for their generators and motors. A single wind turbine eats up tons of rare earth metals. Rare earth mining carried out in China is horrifyingly destructive to people and the environment. One story described radioactive lakes, high cancer rates and villagers whose "teeth began to fall out" and "hair turned white at unusually young ages". "Children were
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 8/19/2022 3:36:28 PM (No. 1253474)
Don't peak, but those little windmills are bad for the planet at every stage, from construction to their life's end; also, it takes gallons of oil to keep them lubricated.
Lastly, birds are getting blasted.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 8/19/2022 4:03:02 PM (No. 1253494)
Like the other posters, I the balsa was new to me. These blades are shipped up US281 right on front of my shop on a regular basis. Government environmentalists destroying the environment, same as for the last 60 years at least.
One thing I did not see mentioned was that windmills keep the ground air warmer at night by not letting the heat rise up away from the ground. In this way they are directly warming up the planet.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 8/19/2022 4:14:52 PM (No. 1253502)
It's the Green New Deal, never mind the individuals mining the lithium and the harvesting of balsa is turning individuals green and making them sick. It's the cost of providing Green products to the elites of the world. Don't complain and work for us.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/19/2022 5:00:29 PM (No. 1253539)
Until someone makes a Hollywood disaster movie, or a well-produced documentary, no one will care. It's clean energy so far as the First World Greenies go.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
snakeoil 8/19/2022 5:54:10 PM (No. 1253581)
Hard for me to believe that women would ask their daughters to prostitute them selves so that they could get enough money to watch soap operas. What's the world coming to? The solar panels also have problems. But to the Warmies the Sun and the Wind are free.
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DVC 8/19/2022 6:32:19 PM (No. 1253617)
All good points against wind turbines, but another is inherent in their nature, in the nature of the wind.
And it means that wind turbines are DESIGNED to fall short, on purpose, because THEY MUST BE.
Wind turbines have a placarded "rated power" but in reality, the power that they WILL produce is about 25-30% of that. This is fundamental to the design, in order to deal with the fact that the power available in the wind is a cube function of the wind speed.
If you design your wind turbine to produce "rated power" at the average wind speed of your site, any time that the wind is above that speed, you must turn the blades out of the wind to avoid overspeeding/overloading the generator and damaging it.
Example: Design for 15 mph wind, and your "figure of merit" is 15^3, or 3375. This is figure is proportional to the power output.
But, if the wind is half that speed at a particular point in time, the figure of merit is 422. This means you can only make 1/8th the power that is made at wind speed of 15 mph.
And, if the wind is blowing just 50% above average wind speed, or 22.5 mph, the figure of merit is 11,390, which is 3.4 times the power put out at the average speed of the wind on that site, BUT you have to turn the unit out of the wind and make NO power, if it is designed for average site wind speed, so you can't take advantage of that above average wind at all. Any power that might be generated above average wind speed is lost. This is very inefficient.
So, you design the turbine to work properly at least 50% greater than the average wind speed, so you can take advantage of those higher wind days. So, your machine can generate power on a windier than average day, but on the average, it will only produce about 1/3 to 1/4th of the "rated power", depending on the design compromise selected.
So, install 100 wind turbines, each rated at 1 megawatt and you do NOT have "100 megawatts of power" for the grid, you have between 25 and 33 megawatts of power, which makes the "rated power" very deceptive. You paid for 100 megawats, and get much less on the average.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
marbles 8/19/2022 6:52:53 PM (No. 1253636)
Wind turbines, as with with solar panels, are not meant to replace oil, gas or coal. And the people that push this garbage know it. They intend for us to do without. No gas, no heat, no AC, no fuel for cars. No cars. And not much food. I will not eat bugs.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 8/19/2022 7:30:29 PM (No. 1253666)
Re OP comment, there are synthetic polymer foams and honeycomb cores that are probably better than balsa. I wonder if they consider the balsa cores to be "non-petroleum" or "sustainable", or some other green nonsense.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
franq 8/19/2022 8:04:10 PM (No. 1253710)
Oh be quiet and eat your crickets.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 8/19/2022 8:29:41 PM (No. 1253743)
All anyone ever looks at is the final product and the result. The upstream matters little when the downstream result is what matters most.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DiegoDude 8/19/2022 8:39:58 PM (No. 1253754)
You can't toss these things into a landfill once they crap out. I didn't know about the ground temp thing, but it makes sense. We call the Raptor Cuisinarts.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
franq 8/20/2022 8:34:35 AM (No. 1254127)
Very enlightening and no surprise. Green™ is a scam. Anything the government gets involved with or mandates is doomed to fail.
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The article goes on with a number of horrible things I've never seen reported before. I didn't know that inside the fiberglass blades is balsa wood -- lots and lots of it in even one turbine -- and the tremendous demand for this wood has awful consequences, often the fault of China and its connections, including deforestation, farms that fed the local people being made into balsa plantations, forced labor in South America, tribes given drugs, indirectly the abduction of young girls -- on and one -- and that's only the balsa part of it. Meanwhile, Greta and her ignorant followers smugly boast of saving the planet.