Wind power collapses across the central US, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba at the same time Wednesday morning. That’s 1100 miles north south, and 700 miles east west in the Canadian prairies.
Wind power collapses across the central US, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba at the same time Wednesday morning. That’s 1100 miles north south, and 700 miles east west in the Canadian prairies.
That is why faceplate ratings on wind turbines are just a speculative piece of fiction. No wind, no power = a green government’s dream scenario. May the politicians freeze to death in the disaster they are creating.
The bastards are brain dead already. A little frost won’t even register. The coarse feel of a loop of good, ol’ fashioned sisal, on the other hand…
Further, I’m all over the concept of wind power (and solar!) with two caveats:
1: No more subsidies in any way, shape or form;
2: Polis salaries are indexed directly to output. You wanna see a Road to Damascus moment…
How about this, no politician (GG, PM, and cabinet Ministers included) can earn more than the national average wage.
That sort of thing has been tried before. All it does is create massive incentive and a huge wave of graft and bribery.
How about no politician serves more than 2 terms and gets 2 years severance,and pension contributions are 5 % of salary put into an rsp. And the graft of the gg office to be brought under control. As well the travel expenses of the PM for personal use should be limited to a 100 grand a year. Followed by at least a 50% reduction in so called government jet use. Someone of this esteemed stature should be able to prioritize, especially as they claim saving the planet from imminent doom is an emergency. The extreme generosity of giving away other people’s money should be looked at. And that is before we consider that is likely that 80% of the government employees are redundant, as Elon has shown.
Wind and solar – the preferred systems of the innumerate.
wind and solar, in their natural roles, are miraculous.
harnessed by ideological fools, not so much.
make the miraculous complexity of the planet natural again.
oh, and rainbows are to remind us of a spectrum of light, or even God’s blessing. Period.
Have a nice day
Until wind and solar energy power are required to pay for their unreliability, the green dreamers will continue to state that they are the cheapest electricity sources. Imagine buying an EV car that only starts about 10%-15% of the time when you need it and then claiming how cheap it is to drive. Sure, if you discount the uber you have to pay for and/or the internal combustion engine vehicle that you need to buy as a backup to the EV car.
That’s a fairly apt description of the relationship between wind/solar power and conventional electricity generation. Power companies are on the hook for the cost of wind/solar and also conventional power and imports to back up the green power to ensure the baseload and peaking power needed maintain a reliable electricity grid.
Double the cost, half the reliability (/s). An incredibly stupid and expensive way to run an essential energy system.
Agreed, LC. The Ontario system was even worse under the Green Energy Act. The GRA required that wind/solar had first access to the grid, meaning that anything else had to be kicked off if there was too much generation available.
Second, the GRA required that all the wind/solar had to be purchased even at its inflated price. If the grid didn’t need it, then it had to be exported to the United States at a discount.
Third, the GRA required that Hydro One had to provide free grid connections to wind/solar, with all the cost being paid by all the OTHER electrical suppliers to the grid.
These are the main reasons why the Ontario Liberal Party has been reduced to non-party status, the last two provincial elections. The Ontario Liberals are so hated that the Tories have even been winning seats in traditional Liberal/NDP strongholds in northern Ontario.
Cgh
That the “tories” are winning liberal seats…really means nada. Same mentality wearing a blue bowtie….and Rainbow Reich epaulets.
So…the worst possible energy deal imaginable for energy customers. A deal only politicians and bureaucrats who are getting “incentives” would agree to sign.
I’d be glad to send our persistent northeast winds to you along with our plethora of bird choppers. Trade for some thunderstorms.
We need more of something, wind, wind turbines that can create wind, or freaking coal, oil, and gas. Nukes can come in later. Stupid has to be eradicated.
Yup. The usual high-pressure, no-wind conditions that prevail in the hottest summer days and coldest winter days, right when we need the most power. Basic atmospheric science, but politicians aren’t scientists of any sort. And they don’t listen much to real scientists.
So. We’ll build many more wind farms to make up for the no-wind times? So we can have many more dead turbines?
There’s a lovely breeze here in Vonda at the moment. Barely tinkling the wind chimes. Which, in Green Fetish World, is all the evidence they’d need to build a wind farm here.
Well, whaddaya know: wind hasn’t been blowing in the Pacific NW for the past 3 days:
https://transmission.bpa.gov/Business/Operations/Wind/baltwg.aspx (installed NP capacity >2000 MW)
Donald Trump: Honey, is the wind blowing? I want to watch TV
Travelling on Hwy 17 at Montreal River north of Sault Ste Marie the bird blenders come into view , motionless as the Wawa goose . I said to my travel companions that in a sane world all the politicians responsible for this would be charged with crimes against humanity and incarcerated in a deserving manner.
Yup, Bill.
I visited my cousin who lives on Goulais Bay, on Superior a few years ago.
They marred the sight along the bay with useless, non turning bird blenders there, too.
All they accomplished was to ruin a beautiful view.
My cousin is pissed about it.
Cream of Canada Goose Soup is currently out of stock.
The fewer Wind Turbines we have the better it is for the Birds and Whales