NOTE TO POLICY MAKERS : 41 Reasons Why Wind ‘Power’ Can Not Replace Fossil Fuels

Posted: December 25, 2018 | Author: Jamie Spry | Filed under: Climatism, Empirical Evidence, Energiewende, Energy Poverty, Fact Check, Failed Green Schemes, Fossil Fuels, Government Grants/Funding, Green Agenda, Green Energy, infrasound, Renewables, RET, Solar, Unreliables, Wind Farms, Wind Turbine Syndrome (WTS) | Tags: Alice Friedemann, Angus Taylor MP, Climate Change, Climatism, Energiewende, Energy Density, Energy Poverty, Energy Security, Energy Skeptic, Fossil Fuels, Fuel Poverty, Global Warming, Green Energy Failure, Mark Butler MP, Melissa Price MP, Nuclear, Renewable energy, RET, unreliables, Wind Energy, wind energy scam, Wind Farms, wind power, Wind Turbine Syndrome |1 Comment

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“Renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach.” – Top Google engineers

“We get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.” – Warren Buffett

“Suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy.” – James Hansen (The Godfather of global warming alarmism and former NASA climate chief)

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WESTERN climate-theory-obsessed politicians continue their ruinous and costly obsession with wind and solar ‘energy’. ‘UNreliables‘ that repeatedly fail the environment, communities and economies wherever installed.

ENERGY poverty, blackouts, skyrocketing power bills, grid instability and the destruction of pristine landscapes, (flora and fauna) among the many deleterious effects of low energy-density, weather and fossil-fuel dependent windmills and solar panels.

ALICE Friedemann of ‘Energy Skeptic‘ meticulously lays out 41 reasons that expose the colossal flaws of the mad rush into wind ‘power’ as a genuine replacement for fossil fuels and/or nuclear power. Economy and job-destroying, anti-energy policy initiatives undertaken by all-too-many in our current ruling class that defy all logic, reason and common sense based on easily verifiable data and on-the-ground evidence.

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41 Reasons why wind power can not replace fossil fuels

Preface. Electricity simply doesn’t substitute for all the uses of fossil fuels, so windmills will never be able to reproduce themselves from the energy they generate — they are simply not sustainable.  Consider the life cycle of a wind turbine – giant diesel powered mining trucks and machines dig deep into the earth for iron ore, fossil-fueled ships take the ore to a facility that will crush it and permeate it with toxic chemicals to extract the metal from the ore, the metal will be taken in a diesel truck or locomotive to a smelter which runs exclusively on fossil fuels 24 x 7 x 365 for up to 22 years (any stoppage causes the lining to shatter so intermittent electricity won’t do). There are over 8,000 parts to a wind turbine which are delivered over global supply chains via petroleum-fueled ships, rail, air, and trucks to the assembly factory. Finally diesel cement trucks arrive at the wind turbine site to pour many tons of concrete and other diesel trucks carry segments of the wind turbine to the site and workers who drove gas or diesel vehicles to the site assemble it.

Here are the topics covered below in this long post:

1. Windmills require petroleum every single step of their life cycle. If they can’t replicate themselves using wind turbine generated electricity, they are not sustainable
2. SCALE. Too many windmills needed to replace fossil fuels
3. SCALE. Wind turbines can’t be scaled up fast enough to replace fossils
4. Not enough rare earth metals and enormous amounts of cement, steel, and other materials required
5. Not enough dispatchable power to balance wind intermittency and unreliability
6. Wind blows seasonally, so for much of there year there wouldn’t be enough wind
7. When too much wind is blowing for the grid to handle, it has to be curtailed and/or drives electricity prices to zero, driving natural gas, coal, and nuclear power plants out of business
8. The best wind areas will never be developed
9. The Grid Can’t Handle Wind Power without natural gas, which is finite
10. The role of the grid is to keep the supply of power steady and predictable. Wind does the opposite, at some point of penetration it may become impossible to keep the grid from crashing.
11. The grid blacks out when the supply of power varies too much. Eventually too much wind penetration will crash the grid.
12. Windmills wouldn’t be built without huge subsidies and tax breaks
13. Tremendous environmental damage from mining material for windmills
14. Not enough time to scale wind up
15. The best wind is too high or remote to capture
16. Too many turbines could affect Earth’s climate negatively
17. Wide-scale US wind power could cause significant global warming. A Harvard study raises questions about just how much wind should be part of a climate solution
    Less wind can be captured than thought (see Max Planck Society)
18. Wind is only strong enough to justify windmills in a few regions
19. The electric grid needs to be much larger than it is now
20. Wind blows the strongest when customer demand is the weakest
21. No utility scale energy storage in sight
22. Wind Power surges harm industrial customers
23. Energy returned on Energy Invested is negative
24. Windmills take up too much space
25. Wind Turbines break down too often
26. Large-scale wind energy slows down winds and reduces turbine efficiencies
27. Offshore Wind Farms likely to be destroyed by Hurricanes
28. The costs of lightning damage are too high
29. Wind doesn’t reduce CO2
30. Turbines increase the cost of farming
31. Offshore Windmills battered by waves, wind, ice, corrosion, a hazard to ships and ecosystems
32. Wind turbines are far more expensive than they appear to be
33. Wind turbines are already going out of business and fewer built in Europe
34. TRANSPORTATION LIMITATIONS: Windmills are so huge they’ve reached the limits of land transportation by truck or rail
35. Windmills may only last 12 to 15 years, or at best 20 years
36. Not In My Back Yard – NIMBYism
37. Lack of a skilled and technical workforce
38. Wind only produces electricity, what we face is a liquid fuels crisis
39. Wind has a low capacity Factor
40. Dead bugs and salt reduce wind power generation by 20 to 30%
41. Small windmills too expensive, too noisy, unreliable, and height restricted

Alice Friedemann :  www.energyskeptic.com  author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, 2015, Springer and “Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips and Crackers”. Podcasts: Practical Prepping, KunstlerCast 253, KunstlerCast278, Peak Prosperity , XX2 report ]

41 Reasons why wind power can not replace fossil fuels | Peak Energy & Resources, Climate Change, and the Preservation of Knowledge

CLICK here for detailed expansion of each of the 41 points…

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SEE also :

• WHAT I See When I See a Wind Turbine | Climatism
• ‘GREEN’ Energy Future | Climatism
• UN Carbon Regime Would Devastate Humanity And The Environment | Climatism
• TRULY GREEN? How Germany’s #Energiewende Is Destroying Nature | Climatism
• GREEN Energy Is The Perfect Scam | Climatism
• DO NOT PASS GO! Seven Years Jail Time For Using Cheap Electricity In Australia | Climatism
• DRACONIAN UN CLIMATE AGENDA EXPOSED : ‘Global Warming Fears Are A Tool For Political and Economic Change…It Has Nothing To Do With The Actual Climate’ | Climatism

‘ENERGIEWENDE’ Fail : Rising German CO2 Emissions – the numbers : 

• ENERGIEWENDE FAIL: German CO2 Emissions Higher Now Than In 2009 | Climatism
• ADDING More Solar And Wind Power ‘Doubles’ CO2 Emissions | Climatism
• IF CO2’s Your Poison, Renewable Energy Is No Antidote | Climatism

UNRELIABLES related :

• CHINA To Phase Out ‘Renewable’ Subsidies, Continue To Build Coal Plants | Climatism
• ENERGIEWENDE FAIL: German CO2 Emissions Higher Now Than In 2009 | Climatism
• GREEN ENERGY FAIL : Record Australian Thermal Coal Exports | Climatism
• ADDING More Solar And Wind Power ‘Doubles’ CO2 Emissions | Climatism
• GODFATHER Of Global Warming Alarmism James Hansen Admits Renewable Energy Is A “Nice Idea” Though Useless | Climatism
• Shocker: Top Google Engineers Say Renewable Energy ‘Simply won’t work’ | Climatism
• GREEN ENERGY FAIL : €Trillions Spent On #Unreliables In Europe Yet Emissions Keep Rising! | Climatism
• China Counts the Staggering Cost of its Wind Power Experiment | Climatism
• Renewables Retreat: China Slaps Ban on New Wind Power Projects | Climatism
• Germany’s €Trillion Euro Disaster: Wind Power ‘Transition’ Destroys its Industrial Heartland | Climatism

ECO HELL related :

• Industrialised Murder: Indian Study Shows Wind Turbines Slaughter 75% of Local Raptors | Climatism
• ‘GREEN’ Killing Fields: Wind Turbines Responsible For Massive & Unnecessary Bird Slaughter | Climatism
• ‘GREEN’ Energy Future | Climatism
• TRULY GREEN? How Germany’s #Energiewende Is Destroying Nature | Climatism

ENERGY Poverty related :

• ‘GREEN’ Energy Poverty : Thousands Dying Because They Can’t Afford Heating Bills | Climatism
• GREEN ENERGY POVERTY: Volunteer Knitters In High Demand As Soaring Power Prices Leave People Cold | Climatism
• IT’S OFFICIAL : South Australia Has The World’s Highest Power Prices! | Climatism
• POLITICIANS Mad With Global Warming Theory Are Destroying The Economy And Hurting The Poor | Climatism
• PARIS Accord Based on Fraud | Climatism

UN-Settled “Science” :

• CLIMATE CHANGE : The Unsettled Science Of “Settled” Science | Climatism
• CLIMATE Change For Dummies | Climatism
• INCONVENIENT : Arctic Sea Ice Extent Enters The Mean Zone! | Climatism
• SNOW : Setting The Record Straight | Climatism

STATE Of The Climate (August 2018) :

• CLIMATISM : State Of The Climate Report | Climatism

IPCC Report 2018 SR15 :

• SORRY ALARMISTS : The IPCC Once Again Reports Extreme Weather Events Have Not Increased | Climatism

TEMPERATURE Related :

• GLOBAL Temperature Drops By 0.4°C In Three Years | Climatism
• THE Great Global Warming “Pause” | Climatism
• PEER-REVIEWED SCIENCE : The Medieval Warm Period Was Indeed Global And Warmer Than Today | Climatism

ORIGINS Of The Global Warming Scam :

• DRACONIAN UN CLIMATE AGENDA EXPOSED : ‘Global Warming Fears Are A Tool For Political and Economic Change…It Has Nothing To Do With The Actual Climate’ | Climatism
• FATHER Of The 2°C Climate Target Admits Number Is Fabricated : ‘Two degrees is not a magical limit; it’s clearly a political goal’ | Climatism
• THE Orwellian Era Of @NASA Climate Pseudoscience | Climatism
• WESTERN Nations, Driven By A Global Agenda Of Climate Alarmism, Are Destroying Their Industries With Carbon Taxes And Promotion Of Expensive, Intermittent Green Energy | Climatism
• TOMORROW’S Grim, Global, Green Dictatorship | Climatism
• CLIMATE CHANGE – The Most Massive Scientific Fraud In Human History | Climatism
• “In Searching For A New Enemy To Unite Us, We Came Up With The Threat Of Global Warming” | Climatism
• The Creator, Fabricator And Proponent Of Global Warming – Maurice Strong | Climatism
• Global Warming Is The Greatest And Most Successful Pseudoscientific Fraud In History | Climatism
• Sustainability is Malthusianism for the 21st Century | Climatism
• THE Climate Change Farce Explained By Two Expert “Scientists” | Climatism
• UN IPCC : Climate “Has Almost Nothing To Do With Environmental Policy.” | Climatism
• UN IPCC : “Long-Term Prediction of Future Climate States Is Not Possible.” | Climatism
• UN IPCC Rewrote Temperature History To Suit Their Political Agenda | Climatism
• YES! The Climate Changes | Climatism
• OUR Planet Has Enjoyed 10 Warm Periods During The Past 10,000 Years | Climatism
• THE ARCTIC : Ground Zero For Anthropogenic Hubris And Climate Change Hysteria | Climatism

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