This study is total bullshit. Wind power has huge potential to provide cheap, clean energy. Portugal has just gone 100% renewables, by the way.
The best way to harvest windpower is offshore. The winds are not obstructed by terrain there, and the sight and sound is far from human habitation. We have years of offshore oil technology to exploit now, as well as redundant oil platforms, that could be used.
Denmark did most to advance offshore wind technology, using iterative improvements.
Solar panels are becoming much cheaper, too.
Check out the documentary "Who killed the electric car?" and you will see that Big Oil is likely the motivator behind this bull.
Wind power has huge potential to provide cheap, clean energy
This is an unfortunate myth that is spread by the wind power industry. If this was true, then why are the household electricity prices the highest in the EU, in the two countries Denmark and Germany, where wind power is used the most?
It's naive to assume there does not exist a huge lobbying industry behind wind power, just like any other industry. Just because they try and greenwash their image, does not mean this industry is not as ruthless as any other. In fact at the moment it is more ruthless than many other power industries, because like tobacco before cancer was admitted, the wind power industry is also actively papering over the downsides and negative effects of their operation.
Though electricity from wind power has been available for decades, the amount of investment in it has been trivial, relative to our research into the pursuit of oil or nuclear, for example. It is a travesty.
I think that you have not investigated recent research into wind. It is phenomenal what is possible, but Big Oil and Big Nuke have all the lobbyists and the money to ensure that attention and resources go completely the other way.
If you think wind is bullshit, take a look at this video. Do the math on the numbers. Advancing technology like this would take tiny assistance from the government, but the yields would be huge, and safe and available to everybody, not just corporations.
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RiverWind ago
This study is total bullshit. Wind power has huge potential to provide cheap, clean energy. Portugal has just gone 100% renewables, by the way.
The best way to harvest windpower is offshore. The winds are not obstructed by terrain there, and the sight and sound is far from human habitation. We have years of offshore oil technology to exploit now, as well as redundant oil platforms, that could be used.
Denmark did most to advance offshore wind technology, using iterative improvements.
Solar panels are becoming much cheaper, too.
Check out the documentary "Who killed the electric car?" and you will see that Big Oil is likely the motivator behind this bull.
qwop ago
This is an unfortunate myth that is spread by the wind power industry. If this was true, then why are the household electricity prices the highest in the EU, in the two countries Denmark and Germany, where wind power is used the most?
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/8/8c/Electricity_prices%2C_first_half_of_year%2C_2015-2017.png
It's naive to assume there does not exist a huge lobbying industry behind wind power, just like any other industry. Just because they try and greenwash their image, does not mean this industry is not as ruthless as any other. In fact at the moment it is more ruthless than many other power industries, because like tobacco before cancer was admitted, the wind power industry is also actively papering over the downsides and negative effects of their operation.
RiverWind ago
I don't accept your argument.
Though electricity from wind power has been available for decades, the amount of investment in it has been trivial, relative to our research into the pursuit of oil or nuclear, for example. It is a travesty.
I think that you have not investigated recent research into wind. It is phenomenal what is possible, but Big Oil and Big Nuke have all the lobbyists and the money to ensure that attention and resources go completely the other way.
If you think wind is bullshit, take a look at this video. Do the math on the numbers. Advancing technology like this would take tiny assistance from the government, but the yields would be huge, and safe and available to everybody, not just corporations.
https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=P55HfnGR6kQ