Just when you thought wind might be just fine to power our economy, on Tuesday, wind power generation in Alberta failed, again. Eight hours saw less than 100 megawatts, and it bottomed out at 13 megawatts. That’s out of 3,618 megawatts of wind turbines installed.
This is what happens when government embraces government lobbying from government paid Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) on how governments must ignore electrical engineering, physics, and economics and offer mythical global salvation through grid destroying distractions de jour. Devolving to pre-industrial squalor is the real goal of such NGOs and some elected sociopaths but most are simply pathologically energy ignorant.
….and requires massive land area for both wind and solar, not to mention the lethal properties of the bird blenders. The huge dollar cost for either, with at best, questionable efficiency calls to question the intellectual capacity of the proponents.
” … and needs backup …”
Ba-kup. Old Piegan phrase meaning: build huge fire with tax dollars. Send smoke signal “need more fuel!”
What’s dumb is thinking we can go 100% Electric….that’s utter ideological stupidity… no amount of turbines and batteries will EVER power our economy.
Pipedream BULLSHIT
Human Hamster Wheels.
Where every single bureaucrat,politician and consultant who proposed,supported and imposed these useless bird slicers,gets to run on the Wheel of Power,to fill in the gap..
That gap between Electricity Promised and Electricity delivered.
A human can put out about 60Watts for an hour or so if reasonably fit.
(The Ontario Science Museum had a bicycle you could test yourself on).
3618 Mega Watt nameplate.
13 Mega Watt delivered.
3615 million Watts to fill the gap.
(3615/60 ) x10~6.
60.5 Million persons all running on “The Wheel”??
Well if I haven’t confused myself,that kind of demonstrates how idiotic our wannabe masters are.
But think of the “Job Creation”..
Farmer down the road has leased some of his land for a substation serving a nearby industrial wind project (SW Ontario). He has been approached to lease more land for a battery storage compound. I’m not aware of storage capacity or costs involved. But with enough subsidies, they should be able to make it profitable for all the players. From the little I’ve read the batteries can provide many thousands of kilowatts of power for…a couple of hours and after that the gas generators have to kick in if the wind still isn’t blowing. But they will be able to reduce CO2 emissions, if even only for a couple of hours.
It sure is a good thing CO2 is not a pollutant or a “climate” driver.
This is exactly why Alberta has joined with Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick in a four-province partnership to develop new nuclear power generation technology and to deploy it. Wind/solar doesn’t work. Every province that has deployed it has seen it fail anything resembling reliability and predictability.
Wind and solar, were, are, and continue to be a total waste of resources.