The trouble with Wind Turbines

[Troll]

Is that they just don't can't deliver when it's cold

[MicrosoftBob]

Or when it's windy

[pjclarke]

The trouble with cherry-picking one data point

You may be missing the big picture

RenewableUK | Press Releases - Record-breaking January for wind energy

Or was it not cold last January?

[MicrosoftBob]

Wind power will be non existent after the subsidies are removed, won't be long for wear and tear to takes those figures down sharply

[Lost It]

Wndless turbines.

Bit pointless really. When it's a long cold spell it's usually because the area is in a high pressure area. Wind doesn't blow.

If it's a long hot spell, the same applies.

So unless we are between high and low pressure systems, they don't really work.

Solar power, well the planet has been doing ok using that for the last few billion years.

[pjclarke]

Wind power will be non existent after the subsidies are removed, won't be long for wear and tear to takes those figures down sharply

Renewable electricity overtakes coal for first time in UK - Telegraph

[FatLazyContractor]

MF Walter mitty can run wind turbines all over the country with his mouth f@rts about first class travel

[DimPrawn]

Surely we can get all the energy we need from the World's largest source. Climate Change Bulltulip!

[DodgyAgent]

Wind turbines are about as meaningful as the Paris COP21 "accord"

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...hing_FINAL.pdf

The deal in Paris says we all must reduce our emissions by 30% by the year 2050! The less developed world says the rich must do the lions share of this. So figure on at the very least ~1 day out of every 3 from now on must result in NO CO2 emissions. That means no transportation other than shanks mare or your bicycle, no cooking with gas, on the barbie, or with a wood stove, almost no electricity, and myriad other inconveniences. You are expected to give up more if you are one of the billion or so people living in a rich countries less if you are one of the other 6 billion people living in a poor countries.

A global 30% CO2 emission reduction next year, 2016, will be some 11 billion tonnes of CO2 NOT emitted. For some context, the world’s entire present day transportation system, cars, trucks, trains, planes, ships everywhere spew out a yearly total CO2 emission of just 7.6 billion tonnes of CO2! I don’t see the world abandoning all mechanized transportation just to cover 2/3’s of the CO2 payment required, so we must come up with practical, affordable alternatives!

Because no one seriously expects any of this happening it will just become a gravy train of money and a means of manipulation for the vested interests of climate change and governments needing an excuse to tax people more.

[MicrosoftBob]

climate change is a means of manipulation for the vested interests governments needing an excuse to tax people more.

FTFY you could have stopped right there