Last month western Europe faced a lack of wind in the north sea area that lead to a shortage of electricity and provoced hysteria in some internet discussions, also skyrocketing prices of gas in the spot market.
For more than two thousand years wind-powered machines have gained ground and in pumping water. Wind power is widely available and cannot be confined. . Wind-powered pumps drained the polders of the Netherlands, and in arid regions such as the American mid-west or the Australian outback, wind pumps provided water for livestock and steam engines.
At the beginning of the 20 century this was quickly replaced by other types of energy, where-by the power of electricity became mainstream worldwide.
During this period the development of technologies was so fast, that people predicted that there will be sources of unlimited energy, that will be quickly created and all the existing problems with expensive and limited fuel energy will go quilckly.
Instead of that we got a huge amount of dirty energy power stations all over the world, that irritates a lot of environmental activists worldwide, especially after the chernobyl accident.
So 30 years later what we have.
The so-called renewable energy sources begin to dominate the energy balance in some high developed countries.
Between the renewable energy sources, the solar fotovaltic panels instalations are the most popular over the worldwide, before Trump's administration in 2016 put custom duties on the China's manufactured solar panels. (70% of all worldwide solar panel is manufactured and assembled in china). So the world turned to the Wind energy.
The wind turbines, have been around for 2000 years. The media brings us wind energy turbines, as a high technology equipment thus blowing our minds. On youtube you can find a dozens of videos were individuals manufacture wind turbine, from garbage materials getting millions of views.
To get and old fashion mill to work all you need to add an electric generator.
The media tries to tell us about the extremely high technology wind mills. The real aim is to put people's conscience so that they use the extremely cool devices to get electricity.
Here Here they tells us about the possibility of making wind turbines that produce 15-megawatts and blades of 115m long, this makes it incredibly difficult for ingeeners, but they don't discuss the difficulties.
Bigger turbines have some economical advantages. They use false maths such as to operate one turbine is two times easy than two. They don't tell us that the bigger turbine has a lot of problems producing due to instalation. (With transportation of ever more wide elecric cables and more complicated systems ser).
From the ancient times we now know the proverb “Don't keep all your eggs in one basket”, but when it implies energy - it's another call.
In forums about wind energy people are very activly argueing about it's advantages and disadvantages. Often some active people write about the advantages of Nuclear energy...
Some facts from WIKIPEDIA for mind supporters of other energy sources.
In some days of the year the wind in Greate Britan was so strong that wind mills provided more then half of the electric energy consuption and some fossile fuel plants were stoped because of lack of consumers.
For now they have plans to quadruplet wind turbines instalations. That means in the future wind can produce in some days of the year double energy consumption in the U.K. And this is without that the other renewables like solar existing in the country.
And some comments from this article I picked up for you.
I remember first hearing about the concept of wind generation - it seemed a very hippy (and impractical) idea at the time. I'm happy to eat my words. Just shows the difference between an amateur lash up and something with huge financing, manufacturing resources and R&D behind it. So why does the BBC have to scavenge around to find a negative in a fundamentally positive story?
Best way to cut emissions is to cut people. Too many people on this dying planet - that is what is unsustainable.
what is gonna happen if the scientists are wrong and the world starts to cool, will we then try and warm the planet?
Ok, So you put most of your energy generation out at sea, is here any protection out there against a rogue nation coordinating an attack? Just a thought
S.S.