{"id":339104,"date":"2024-08-10T09:07:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-10T07:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339104"},"modified":"2024-08-10T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-10T07:07:49","slug":"scottish-wind-power-from-diesel-generators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=339104","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Wind Power from Diesel\u00a0Generators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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John Gideon Hartnett writes at Spectator Australia Another climate myth busted  <\/strong><\/a>explaining how the Scottish public was scammed about their virtuous green wind power by the public authority.  Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images from post by John Ray at his blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I like to call \u2018climate cult\u2019 wind farms expose the myth that wind can replace hydrocarbon fuels<\/strong> for power generation. The following story is typical of the problems<\/strong> associated with using wind turbines to generate electricity in a cold environment.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apparently, diesel-fuelled generators<\/strong> are being used to power some wind turbines as a way of de-icing<\/strong> them in cold weather, that is, to keep them rotating. Also<\/strong>, it appears that the wind turbines have been drawing electric power<\/strong> directly from the grid instead of supplying it to the grid.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scotland\u2019s wind turbines have been secretly using fossil fuels.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The revelation is now fueling environmental, health and safety concerns, especially since the diesel-generated turbines were running for up to six hours a day.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scottish Power<\/strong> said the company was forced to hook up 71 windmills to the fossil fuel supply<\/strong> after a fault on its grid. The move was an attempt to keep the turbines warm and working during<\/strong> the cold month of December<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Scotland Labor MSP Colin Smyth said regardless of the reasons, using diesel to deice faulty turbines is \u201cenvironmental madness<\/strong>\u201d.  Source: Straight Arrow News<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nevertheless, those pushing these technologies are so blind to the physical realities of the world<\/strong> that they are prepared to ignore failures while pretending<\/strong> to efficiently generate electricity. I say \u2018failures\u2019 because wind energy was put out of service the day the Industrial Revolution was fired<\/strong> up (pun intended) with carbon-based fuels,<\/strong> from petroleum and coal. And in the case of modern wind turbines,<\/strong> they do not always generate electricity; they sometimes consume it from the grid.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Green energy needs the hydrocarbon-based fuel it claims to replace.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hydrocarbon-based fuels were provided providentially by the Creator of this planet for our use. That includes coal<\/strong>, which has been demonised in the Western press<\/strong> as some sort of evil. But those who run that line must have forgotten to tell China, because they build two coal-fired power stations every other week. No other source of non-nuclear power is as reliable for baseload generation.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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How will wind turbines work in a globally cooling climate<\/strong>\u00a0as Earth heads into a grand solar minimum and temperatures plummet? This\u00a0case from Scotland<\/strong>\u00a0may give us a hint. As cloud cover increases with cooler weather, and more precipitation occurs, how will solar perform? It won\u2019t.<\/em>
The two worst choices<\/strong>\u00a0for electricity generation\u00a0in cold, wet, and stormy environments are solar and wind.<\/strong>\u00a0Solar is obvious. No sun means no power generation. But you might think wind is a much better choice under those conditions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, wind turbine rotors have to be shut down if<\/strong> the wind<\/strong> becomes too strong and\/or rapidly changes<\/strong> in strength. They are shut down when too much ice forms<\/strong> or when there is insufficient wind.<\/strong> And now we have learned in Scotland they just turn on the diesel generators<\/strong> when that happens or they draw power directly from the grid.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where are all the real engineers?<\/strong> Were they fired?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In regards to wind turbines going forward, once their presence in the market has destroyed all the coal or natural gas electricity generators, how are they going to keep the rotors turning and the lights on?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These devices are based on a rotating shaft with a massive bearing, that suffers massive frictional forces. In this case, only a high-quality heavy-duty oil can lubricate this system<\/strong> and I am sure it would need to be regularly replaced.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wind turbine gearbox accelerates blade rotor (left) up to 1800 rpm output to electical generator (right)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Massive amounts of carbon-based oil are needed for the lubrication of all gears and bearings in a wind turbine system, which is mechanical in its nature. In 2019, wind turbine applications were estimated to consume around 80 per cent of the total supply of synthetic lubricants.<\/strong> Synthetic lubricants are manufactured using chemically modified petroleum components rather than whole crude oil. These are used in the wind turbine gearboxes, generator bearings, and open gear systems such as pitch and yaw gears.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we also know that icing causes the rotors to stop turning so diesel power<\/strong> has to be used to keep the bearings warm<\/strong> during cold weather. The diesel generator is needed to get the blades turning on start-up<\/strong> to overcome the limiting friction of the bearing or when the speed of the rotor drops too low.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case in Scotland, 71 windmills<\/strong> on the farm were supplied with diesel power. Each<\/strong> windmill has its own diesel generator<\/strong>. Just think of that.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What about the manufacturing of these windmills?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blades are made from tons of fibreglass. Manufacturing fibreglass requires the mining<\/strong> of silica sand, limestone, kaolin clay, dolomite, and other minerals, which requires diesel-driven machines.<\/strong> These minerals are melted in a furnace<\/strong> at high temperatures (around 1,400\u00b0C) to produce the glass. Where does that heat come from? Not solar or wind power, that is for sure. The resin in the fibreglass comes from alcohol or petroleum-based manufacturing processes.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The metal structure is made from steel<\/strong> that requires tons of coking coal<\/strong> (carbon) essential to make pig iron<\/strong>, which is made from iron ore in a blast furnace<\/strong> at temperatures up to 2,200\u00b0C. The coal and iron ore is mined<\/strong> from the ground with giant diesel-powered machines and trucks. The steel is made with pig iron and added carbon in another furnace powered by massive electric currents. Carbon is a critical element in steel making, as it reacts with iron to form the desired steel alloy.<\/strong> None of this comes from wind and solar power.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wind turbine power generation is inherently intermittent and unreliable.<\/strong><\/em>
It can hardly called green as the wind turbines require enormous<\/strong><\/em>
amounts of hydrocarbons in their manufacture and continued operation.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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