Last month western Europe faced a lack of wind in the north sea that lead to the lack of electricity and hysteria in some internet discussions, also skyrocketing the prices of the gas on the spot market.
For more than two thousand years wind-powered machines have ground grain and pumped water. Wind power was widely available and not confined to the banks of fast-flowing streams, or later, requiring sources of fuel. 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 were quickly replaced by other type of energy plants,when the power of electricity became mainstream in using worldwide.
In that period the development of the technologies was so fast, that people predicted that there will be the sources of the unlimited energy, that will be quickly created and all the existing problems with expensive and limited by fuel energy will go out quilckly.
Instead of that we got an a huge amount of dirty energy power stations all over the world, that irritates a lot environmental activists all over the world, especially after the chernobyl accident.
So 30 years later what we have.
The so-called renewable energy sources begin now domination in the energy balance in some high developed countries.
Berween the renewables energy sources, the solar fotovaltic panels instalations was the most popular over the world, before the Trump's administration in 2016 put custom duties on the China manufactured solar panels. Where over 70% of all world the world solar panel manufacture assembled. And the world turned to the Wind energy.
The wind turbines, dominated for 2000 years, but the media brings us a wind energy turbins, as a high technology equipment that blowing mind. In the youtube you can find a dozens video were individuals manufacture wind turbine, from even garbage materials getting millions of views.
The reality that to get a wind energy station it just enough to add electric generator to the mill.
But the world media tells us about extremely high technology wind mills. The real aim is of that I guess to put in people's conscience that they use the extremely cool devices to get electricity.
Here they tells us about possibility of making the wind turbine a 15-megawatt energy capacity and blades of 115m long, that makes incredible difficults for ingeeners, but they don't uncover what difficulties.
Declaration that bigger turbines have some economical advantages they use false math - like to operate one turbine is two times easy than one. And they don't tell us that the bigger turbine has a lot of problems from producing to instalation. (With transportation more wide elecric cables and more comlicated system of service).
From the ancient times we now the proverb “Don't keep all your eggs in one basket”, but when it touches the energy - it's another situation.
In forums about the wind energy people very actively arguing about to advantages and disadvantages of the wind energy. And often come some active people that write about advantages of the 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.