{"id":251684,"date":"2023-04-07T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=251684"},"modified":"2023-04-07T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:34:16","slug":"environmental-economic-disaster-wind-power-fails-on-every-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=251684","title":{"rendered":"Environmental & Economic Disaster: \u2018Wind Power Fails on Every Count\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Epoch Times<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Naveen Athrappully<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A wind farm outside of Palm Springs., Calif., on May 26, 2018. (John Fredricks\/The EPoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Wind power has been historically and scientifically unreliable, claims an Oxford University mathematician and physicist, with his calculations revealing the government to be pursuing a \u201cbluster of windfarm politics\u201d while discarding numerical evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the decision to cut down on fossil fuels was made at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, the \u201cinstinctive reaction\u201d around the world was to embrace renewables, Professor Emeritus Wade Allison, who is also a researcher at CERN, said in a 2023 paper (pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allison noted that because solar power is \u201cextremely weak,\u201d it was inadequate to \u201csustain even a small global population with an acceptable standard of living\u201d before the Industrial Revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday, modern technology is deployed to harvest these weak sources of energy. Vast \u2018farms\u2019 that monopolise the natural environment are built, to the detriment of other creatures. Developments are made regardless of the damage wrought. Hydro-electric schemes, enormous turbines and square miles of solar panels are constructed, despite being unreliable and ineffective; even unnecessary,\u201d Allison said in the report, published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn particular, the generation of electricity by wind tells a disappointing story. The political enthusiasm and the investor hype are not supported by the evidence, even for offshore wind, which can be deployed out of sight of the infamous My Back Yard,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhat does such evidence actually say?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, wind power generated more than 9 percent of the net total of the country\u2019s energy in 2021 and is the largest source of renewable power in the country. Over 70,000 turbines generate enough power to serve the equivalent of 43 million American homes, the department says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are 120,000 jobs related to wind energy in the United States, the Energy Department says, and it\u2019s one of the fastest-growing jobs in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Evidence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Allison explained that wind energy is measured based on the amount of moving air and the speed of the air as it reaches the area swept by the turbine blades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scientist calculated that, at 100 percent efficiency, if the wind blows at 10 meters per second (about 22 mph), the power is 600 watts per square meter. Hence, to deliver 3,200 million watts, the same output as Hinkley Point C\u2014a planned zero-carbon nuclear power station in England\u2014there would need to be 5.5 million square meters of turbine swept area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat should be quite unacceptable to those who care about birds and to other environmentalists,\u201d Allison wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The actual performance of the technology is much worse than the calculations made based on 100 percent efficiency, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause 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,\u201d he said. \u201cAlmost 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allison noted that fluctuations are considerable as he pointed to a WindEurope Report that showed the installed nominal generating capacity across the European Union and United Kingdom on a daily basis was 236 gigawatts (GW). However, the highest output in 2021 registered at 103 GW on March 26 of that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unreliability extends to offshore windfarms as well. Batteries used to store power are also severely restricted by current technology. In spite of such evidence, the government keeps ignoring the numbers, said Allison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith general energy shortages, the war in Europe, high prices and the likelihood of failures in electricity supply, many popular scientific presumptions underlying energy policy should be questioned. Wind power fails on every count,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Failing Turbines, Carbon Dioxide Demonization<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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 power projects. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Offshore windfarms, deployed in the name of environmentalism, are now seen as disastrous for ocean life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malfunctions in wind turbines range from small issues, like some key components becoming faulty, to\u00a0full-blown collapses<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to a 2022 paper<\/a> published by Wallace Manheimer in the Journal of Sustainable Development, even as modern society depends on reliable sources of energy, the \u201cclimate industrial complex\u201d\u2014a powerful lobby of politicians, scientists, and media\u2014pushes climate-related falsehoods into the popular perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt has somehow managed to convince many that CO2 in the atmosphere, a gas necessary for life on earth, one which we exhale with every breath, is an environmental poison. Multiple scientific theories and measurements show that there is no climate crisis,\u201d said Manheimer, a retired U.S. Naval Research Laboratory scientist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver the period of human civilization, the temperature has oscillated between quite a few warm and cold periods, with many of the warm periods being warmer than today,\u201d he wrote. \u201cDuring geological times, it and the carbon dioxide level have been all over the place with no correlation between them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n