Here’s a good investment of six minutes of your time; it’s a video on how wind turbines are made. What I didn’t understand until just now is the technology and workmanship that goes into creating the foundation such that the …
Here’s a good investment of six minutes of your time; it’s a video on how wind turbines are made. What I didn’t understand until just now is the technology and workmanship that goes into creating the foundation such that the …
My school friend “isn’t having” my contention that wind energy makes sense, but instead of refuting my point about the attractive EROI (energy return on investment), he writes:
An old school chum shared this piece of excrement on Facebook just now, to which I responded: It pains me greatly to see disinformation like this spread around.
An old friend (“George”–possibly an ex-friend after this) shared this article on Facebook this morning, sparking the following conversation: George: Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energy.
Even since the advent of large-scale commercial wind energy in the 1990s, there has been a certain interest in airborne wind, as illustrated here. In principle, it offers all the benefits of offshore wind, on steroids. It’s less visible than …
Here’s something for all you fans of high-altitude wind. There are at least a dozen variations on the theme, but the concept here, in brief, goes like this: energy is extracted from the high-velocity wind aloft as a kite, attached …
Frequent commenter SilentRunning notes: Dear Craig, you deserve a Star of Peace for allowing Dr. Cannera to pontificate against the two forms of energy, solar and wind as inefficient toys that will not significantly contribute to the global energy challenge …
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I’m part of a large email group that promotes the concept of “advanced nuclear.” Most of these people are extremely well-informed, intelligent, and kind people. Some, however, have a bizarre hatred for renewables, like the guy who started this conversation: …
In response to my post on wind’s energy return on energy investment (EROI), the same reader writes: I am very, very skeptical about numbers you quoted for wind (15:1 to 30:1). Lots of really bright people are wrong about …
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I wrote a post earlier in which I pointed out that solar and wind are valid energy resources even though they are variable. In response, a reader writes: Craig, have you ever looked into the CO2 burden that wind has …
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