Just the News
The U.S. Energy Information Administration released a report this week showing that installing more wind farms doesn’t necessarily mean generating more electricity. The U.S. tripled its wind energy capacity, according to the report, from 47 gigawatts in 2010 to 147.5 gigawatts at the end of 2023. While that may sound impressive, generation from all those wind farms dropped 2.1% over 2022.
Much of that drop was during the first six months of 2023, when wind generation fell by 14% compared to the same period in 2022.
The capacity factor for the nation’s wind energy fleet, the EIA explained in its report, dropped to an eight-year low of 33.5%. This is the ratio of the amount of power produced compared to the total it could have produced if it were running continuously. More
People need to study up, elected officials most of all, on just how little power they generate. It’s a sham they buy into.
Wind power would be much more reliable if the wind farms were built inside the Congressional building!
Every major city should be destroyed and replaced with Wind Power as each of the Democrat Cities suck. Power Galore.
Obviously we need more solar powered fans to drive the big turbines when the wind isn’t blowing enough.
@Puppet Master: “It’s a sham they buy into.”
Congress doesn’t buy into anything. They spend into.
The wind farms are slowing the Earth’s rotation!
They admitted it when the said they will have to add a second to the calendar in a few years…
But the wind farms are very successful at killing raptors who eat pests who eat the crops farmers grow. Why don’t the enviromentalists ever do anything to stop this?!
Global Warming porn!
After all, they’re only fans…
Generating Power, transmitting generated power to power brokers who sell to REAs and other regional transmitters before Billing end users.
They have the ability to interrupt power locally, regionally and Nationally to allow everything or nothing. Now that’s POWER.
Reminds me, I need to find my slide ruler.
And this is exactly why the grid won’t support charging a shit load of EVs.
@Conservative Cowgirl:
Because they’re not really environmentalists. They’re “environmentalists”. But I know you knew that!
Those aren’t really scare quotes, but rather faker quotes.
Hope Achmed didn’t read my comment. Not to exclude the other terrorists, and supporters from the the UAE, Saudis, Iranians, Iraqis, Afghanis, Lebanese, Turkey. Egyptians. Yeminis, Muslim African Nations, China, Russia and some eastern Europeans. Biden’s foreign Policy by the nunbers.
One thing about these wind turbines I’ve never seen is an attempted analysis of how they might affect weather. You take energy away from ANY system, the system changes.
The Earth’s Climate contains energy, which impacts what the weather is at any given point on the planet. So, what happens when this energy is taken away from the wind? One could assume, at a minimum, that it slows the movement of storms (less wind, less movement.)
If that was the case, wouldn’t this increase damage from strong storms? Maybe they did find this out through an unpublished/buried study, and thought ‘Yay – We can make weather more destructive by creating “clean” energy from the wind!’
It’s a Twofer, as long as “we” make the right investments…
Rumor has it the whales on the east coast hate the damn things.
Brad. I read that the turbines interfere with whale’s sonar location, which ends up causing them to beach themselves.
The left seems to have found ways to silence both women’s rights orgs and ‘save the whales’…
fullmetal256
I remember reading about ten years ago how they shifted an international shipping lane out in the middle of the Pacific because the sounds of the rotating props we confusing the whales during migration. I guess the whales are just collateral damage when it comes to something as important as saving the planet.
The politicians don’t care if it’s a valid way to generate electricity or or not. All they care about is getting re-elected. So for them, the real question is: does this help me get elected? And if the answer is yes, they are for it.
The original windmills are using up too much wind for the new windmills to operate.
Maybe they installed them backwards and they’re sucking electricity from the grid.
Couple thoughts…
1. They extract energy from a moving fluid. At some point its valid to ask if the energy extraction is actually slowing the wind down, interrupting the transfer of heat from the equator to the poles and causing localized global warming.
2. During the Enron debacle out in Kali, I lived in the far east bay, Tri-Valley area. Had a great view of the windmills on Altamont pass east of Livermore. Rolling blackouts were underway, the grid was falling apart, and there was this one windmill that never turned off. Not once. Not even on the worst no wind dog days of summer.
KR
^^^ They suck alright…
In my corner of Texas, we are not on the Texas Grid. We get none of our electricity from wind turbines. My latest bill was $129. Love that natural gas!
Google: u.s. electrical power consumption
Result: 4E15 Watt hours in 2022
Divide by 365.25 days in 2022 then by 24 hours per day
Result: 456 GigaWatts (average) power flow.
Google: S8G PWR nuclear reactor
Result: 45 MW (shaft power)
Divide 456 GW by 45 MW
Result: ~10,000 Ohio class submarine nuclear reactors could provide the average power required by the U.S.
If a PotUS, (e.g. Trump 47,) could convince Congress to foot the bill for about one S8G reactor per day for his last three years, sprinkle them around military bases, and connect them to the grid; then the U.S. could benefit from an energy “commons” of about ten percent of average demand.
Atoms for,
Peace
Or Congress could send the money to Ukraine.
And the more EVs they sell, the more money Ford loses.
https://iotwreport.com/ford-loses-1-3-billion-on-electric-vehicles-in-first-quarter-of-2024-delays-plans-to-make-more/
https://youtu.be/kHOXMQPsYY0?si=rBLf4GhoHfvnZmhd&t=2m54s