{"id":340344,"date":"2024-08-22T16:24:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340344"},"modified":"2024-08-22T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T14:24:33","slug":"the-short-lives-of-wind-turbines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=340344","title":{"rendered":"The Short Lives of Wind\u00a0Turbines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Science Matters <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ron Clutz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In a recent short video (below) John Burgess summarizes\u00a0why wind farms become unviable long before promoters promised.<\/strong>\u00a0He explains that after about 15 years wind farms are\u00a0uneconomic to keep going.<\/strong>\u00a0Also the far more reliable\u00a0older smaller under 2 MW turbines have a longer life<\/strong>. All based on the work of one professor \u2013 Gordon Hughes.who did some brilliant work on wind farm costs some three years ago. For those preferring to read, I provide a transcript lightly edited from closed captions in italics with my bolds, key exhibits and added images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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