{"id":245640,"date":"2023-02-26T12:36:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T11:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=245640"},"modified":"2023-02-26T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T11:36:38","slug":"too-cool-for-school-frozen-wind-turbines-being-warmed-up-using-diesel-powered-generators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=245640","title":{"rendered":"Too Cool For School: Frozen Wind Turbines Being \u201aWarmed\u2018 Up Using Diesel Powered Generators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From STOP THESE THINGS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wind power is a fickle critter: wind too slow (no power); wind too fast (no power); wind turbine frozen solid (again, no power).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The habit of freezing up during cold spells is just another reason why wind power will never amount to a meaningful power source, not now, not ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, there are \u2018solutions\u2019 when these things turn into giant popsicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spraying steam from a diesel-fuelled boiler slung under a helicopter can help remove tonnes of debilitating ice from their blades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that doesn\u2019t deal with the inner workings of these things, when bearings, brakes, gearboxes, yaw controls and generators lock-up solid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some are equipped with internal heating systems meant to keep their working from doing so. Those heating systems are run from power delivered from the grid \u2013 ie, electricity generated with coal-fired power \u2013 or even local diesel generators. Which is precisely what\u2019s been happening in the Scottish Highlands. As Jack Montgomery reports below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Green Fail: Dozens of Scottish Wind Turbines Powered by Diesel Generators, Pour Hydraulic Oil into Countryside<\/strong>
Breitbart
Jack Montgomery
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Scotland\u2019s green-obsessed left-separatist government has been left with egg on its face by revelations that dozens of gigantic onshore wind turbines are having to be hooked up to diesel generators, leaking thousands of litres of hydraulic oil into the countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scottish Power \u2014 led by a Spaniard, Ignacio Galan, and actually a subsidiary of Spanish firm Iberdrola \u2014 conceded that some 71 of its turbines had to be hooked up to diesel generators to keep them warm in December, according to the Sunday Mail, with a whistleblower telling the left-leaning newspaper that problems with the turbines are deep-seated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring December 60 turbines at Arecleoch and 11 at Glenn App were de-energised due to a cabling fault\u2026 In order to get these turbines re-energised diesel generators were running for upwards of six hours a day,\u201d they revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, the Record went on to say that some 4,000 litres (over 1,000 U.S. gallons) of leaking hydraulic oil was \u201csprayed over the countryside\u201d by the turbines \u2014 a less than environmentally-friendly impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Green Agenda Setback! Cold Weather, Wind Not Blowing Sees UK Bring Coal Power Plants Back Online https:\/\/t.co\/8r0ozGT6hX<\/a><\/p>— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>