On Wednesday nearly all the wind generators in the country failed. About 4,000 turbines across five states of Australia were hit by some kind of simultaneous fuel crisis. At one point all the wind power in our national grid was only making 3% of Australia’s electricity, and that was the best part of the day. At its worst, all those turbines produced about 1.2% of the power we needed. It was that bad.
Across the nation, something like $15 to $20 billion dollars of infrastructure ground to a halt.
Related: Yikes. Offshore wind giant Orsted says it’s discovered that cables are at risk of failure at up to 10 of its wind farms in the UK and Europe. The cable protection systems are apparently rubbing against rocks put in place to protect the turbine foundations from seabed erosion
h/t Joe, another ian
Failure? Trudeau and his apparatchiks would call it a trial run.
It just keeps getting better for wind enthusiasts. I like this particular comment: “Engineering surprise: Machines need maintenance.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og2H7ZxkiMA&t=5s
most of the wind turbines need the props to be constantly spinning so that you don’t get flat spots on the bearings… which of course consumes energy…
which nobody tracks and puts in their reports, when you can even get a proper report out of them
That’s only true for the giant bird-blenders. Smaller VAWT systems, while less a wee bit efficient than HAWT, do not suffer from this problem, and they don’t blend birds or explode bat’s lungs either.
infanticide/eugenics became “pro-choice/abortion”
unreliable power generation became “renewables”
cheap, reliable, and plentiful became “carbon pollution”
marriage/husband+wife+children/family became “equal marriage” which can mean anything now
euthanasia became “right to die/die with dignity”
electric cars that have been continuously available since the 1830s became “new technology”
The first rule of propaganda: when you have something truly terrible to sell, you change the name, and/or change the meaning of the words being used.
fascists rebranded to “anti-fascists” i.e. antifa
communists rebranded to “progressives”
racists rebranded to “anti-racist”
You get the idea. A good rule of thumb, is to simply take their self description, and assume the opposite. Until proven otherwise.
Another good rule of thumb is to assume that any accusation made by the left is in reality a confession.
In general, mutations, while they may be more infectious, are usually nowhere near as dangerous as far as fatalities or debilitation are concerned, but that simple fact can’t be used to further panic people, so down into the memory hole it goes.
Juthtin Trudeau a “feminist”.
Kev
“…The first rule of propaganda: When you have something truly terrible to sell, you change the name, and/or change the meaning of the words being used…”
Yep: The Common cold – Influenza A – B……became in 3 short months a PANDEMIC of supposedly DEADLY Wuhan flu, DEADLY Variants and recently Double Deadly Dbl Variants don’tcha know…..!!!!! (whatever the hell that is even supposed to mean..?)
advertising works…
I like the new word for mutations.
kevin, thump thump thump, and this make you part of the problem , why the cucks have a hard time getting elected. You can’t effect CONSERVATIVE policy from the opposition benches!
And what conservative policy did we get, when Harper was not on the opposition benches?
CBC still here.
Manchurian Charter still here.
Equalization still here.
No tripple E senate.
No cuts to regulation.
Gun registry supposedly gone, but those persistent rumors that Quebec kept it …
Crow rate still gone.
Still annual rail shortages.
Still have 35% of the adult population directly employed by the government.
Still have the privy council.
So, looks to me like I get no conservative policy, regardless of who wins. So, continue playing the fool, and I will continue to laugh. You make no argument, only a basic logical fallacy (appeal to emotion).
If they had only installed a flux capacitor.
It is very rare for the wind to be blowing at 30*C and up. It is also very rare for the wind to be blowing at -30*C. When you need your “renewable” energy the most – ZERO OUTPUT. Wind and solar power are the worst idea for Kanaduh’s future. The existing infrastructure, electricity and natural gas, will have to be maintained and ready to fire up at any time. The Green Movement is just another step along the way to Full Communism (we are three quarters of the way there now).
” (we are three quarters of the way there now).”
I think you are low balling it. I would put the number for Canada, at 1e56000 % of the way there. Or 1000000000000000(fifty six thousand zeroes)… % to full communism.
I’d say we are headed to a sort of combination of fascism and communism. We already have fully collectivized health care and roadways, so those are full-on commie, and, at least in Alberta, all the oil is owned by the state, and land leased to the companies, so that’s closer to fascism, along with monopolistic “private” electricity and other energy providers, again fascism. I’m guessing with more and more regulation we’ll see more privately owned farms and factories cross the threshold into being instruments of state policy (like Bombardier or SNC Lavalin), again, more fascism…
Individuals cannot afford to get into farming. Even Hutterite Colonies are having a tough go. My dad, in the early 1970’s, predicted that farming would eventually get taken over by syndicates.
I live in eastern Ontario, and there are still lots of 20-100 acre farms around here, doing everything from dairy to beef to silage to corn and lavender, and they do a lot of barter between them. In western Ontario, the syndicates have taken over with their giant 1000+ acre operations, I don’t know too much about the state of the industry in the west.
At Canada’s angle of declination, solar is even worse. Our heavy energy demand is in winter when solar is completely useless, and the only time we can make any is in summer when demand is lowest, because (gasp) it is cold here.
You can get about 1.5 hrs of peak energy production out of a solar cell in mid winter where I live. Better than nothing, and I didn’t have to rely on some state/corp incestuous aholes to supply me.
Wind and solar grid power is about a smart as solar roadways or sidewalks. The do work great on a micro-scale, along with TEG, though, with a good LiFePo battery setup, as anyone who has lived off grid for any amount of time will attest to.
Wind and solar are not intended to be reliable and economical energy providers but instead, baby soothers for the innumerate mindless mushy middle to be pacified thereby allowing green theocracies to deindustrialize, bankrupt, and impoverish citizens into serfs.
On the micro-scale, for people who own their own wind and solar equipment, being innumerate is not an option. You need to know your max. and min. wattage production, averages, etc, and tailor your consumption accordingly. There are all sorts of tricks, like, if you want inexpensive refrigeration, use chest freezers along with external thermostat controlled outlets to maintain a 4C temp inside the freezer. That being said, unless you can afford $20k+ worth of equipment, you cannot even think about air conditioning or heating a home with it, but refrigeration of food, lighting and a bit of power tool usage is perfectly feasible. Given today’s political climate, relying on the ever-wokening energy companies is a mistake.
Tailor your consumption??? Bah, that is another form of slavery. I want as much as I want when I want it, period.
Me too. I wish you good luck. If we didn’t have all these assholes screwing everything up, energy, and stuff in general would be a lot cheaper. I can’t even afford to keep my pool heated over the winter!
Europe does pretty good with new residential houses wired to 5+ horsepower in every friggin outlet, while us north americans have to deal with a wee 1800 watts, barely enough to weld with! Now is the time to tell me that only oppressors like the Europeans can give the people so much power, and us freedom lovers should be happy with our suzy-homemaker outlets.
Off grid, they are fine for certain applications but as part of the myth of “net zero” they are unreliable and expensive grid parasites.
Agreed. They are the “firearms” the left is currently using against us. Never buy into their nomenclature.
Related: can’t wait till these things all start leaning over. That won’t affect their efficiency, will it?
Kenji, I read some time ago about a wind farm in one of the western states, it wasn’t a big farm. I think around 50 wind turbines were no loner viable. They were knocked down and buried on site as it was too costly to do anything else. Green as grass, right.
VOWG … never call them wind “farms” … it sounds too bucolic and romantic. They’re wind FACTORIES … disturbing the peace with subsonic vibrations and dicing birds daily.
Kenji, about 5 1/2 CPS ultrasound, and that is a health problem!
Shouldn’t be too long before the Ontario grid fails.
Not likely. Ontario has lots of nuclear capacity, not to mention hydro-electric, and Ontario produces more natural gas than it uses for electricity. At worse, they’ll just jack up the price like they did under McGuinty and Wynne to pay for the wind boondoggle. I’d say its more likely that the greentard stormtroopers will make a stab at shutting down more coal plants, and the aholes who own the coal supplies are already on board as far as making it very hard for private citizens to buy a couple tons of it a year at market prices.
When Fukushima went out, Bruce Nuclear reclaimed the title “The largest nuclear power plant In the world!”.
https://www.power-technology.com/features/feature-largest-nuclear-power-plants-world/
Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL) is owned by SNC Lavalin, boy, that’s comforting. Good thing the winds blow from west to east!
Texas had lots of extra generation power but still went down because of solar and wind.
If anyone wants to see environmental degradation first hand drive the north Superior route west of Wawa and enjoy the sight of 20 bird blenders destroying what is part of the most picturesque scenery in Canada . This is the end result of moronic politicians getting their way . They got their way because of ignorant low information people who voted for them . Now that the US has elected a complete idiot and Canada is about to do the same with Trudope and his cabal of bobble heads we are done .
“… nearly all the wind generators in the country failed. About 4,000 turbines across five states of Australia were hit by some kind of simultaneous fuel crisis.”
What does that mean? Wind powered generators neither use nor rely on fuel for operation, as best I know.