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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (32064)2/5/2011 2:18:19 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (1) of 36917
 
At least coal works as advertised unlike wind power.



Wind turbines rarely produce their advertised full power. On average, wind turbines only produce about 20% of their nameplate rating.

Wind power is unreliable and undispatchable. It will likely be unavailable to provide any power when it is needed most.

Wind power is not clean. It takes a lot of dirty energy to make the materials, manufacture and install a wind turbine facility.

Wind turbines are not environmentally friendly. They are noisy, unsightly, kill bats and birds, interfere with radars, and have been shown to be responsible for a slew of health problems.

Wind turbines consume electricity whether operating or not. Often this power is not even metered. Care to guess who is paying the bill for this power?

In theory, if 20% of US electric generation was replaced by
wind power, the decrease in CO2 emissions would be an unnoticeable 0.00948%.

In reality, wind power doesn't reduce CO2 emissions at all, because backup fossil power plants have to cycle wildly and inefficiently trying to keep up with erratic wind power output.

Wind power will not replace fossil fired power plants. Germany estimates that by 2020 up to 96% of its wind power capacity will need to be backed up by new coal fired power plants.

Wind power will not reduce US dependency on foreign oil. If wind power replaced 20% of US electric generation, the resulting decrease in oil imports would be a measly 0.292%.

Wind turbines have an embarrassingly low Energy Returned On Energy Invested value of 0.29. The manufacture, installation and operation of wind power facilities will consume more than 3 times the energy they will ever produce.

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