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@greenman3610 Thanks, I’ll look it up.
@JoelCornah
I think if you google
amory lovins, 4 nuclear myths
he looks at the baseload power assumptions.
Also, you can see more on wind for baseload in work of Stanford Engineer Mark Jacobsen –
google
jacobsen baseload wind
Love the video, but where’s your source for how long wind turbines are off-line compared to other energy production means? Thanks. :)
@exzealient
you’d have to document that number – it’s at variance with the official sources I’ve seen, which are in the 30 to 40 percent range, higher for offshore.
there is definitely a future for household scale systems, and one of the advantages of distributed energy is that it will allow generation at the macro, and micro scale, as the grid becomes more like the internet.
FACT: IWT’s work at a small % of their nameplate generating potential, usually 10-15%. You can cover the state of Texas with IWTs and not generate enough electicity. The pretty pictures of wind MILLS are not the same as an INDUSTRIAL wind turbines. All you “greens” who say INDUSTRIALISM got us to this point in our planet’s peril, have it completely wrong about the turbines. The future is household, individual scale power sources. They exist, but you wont hear about them from the industrialists.
@danieljand Like I said, though, I really don’t see why they don’t use Vanadium flow batteries with wind farms more often. In the few cases in which they’ve been used, they’ve practically *doubled* the capacity factor-from around 30% to more than 60%-by storing the larger amounts of surplus night-time wind power for use during the day.
@danieljand Well yes, within 100m, but studies have shown that, even from 500m away, the amount of decibels of sound emitted by a wind farm is no greater than rural background noise.
@MrHicks091 I haven’t been in a large wind-farm, but I have done work around just one–in Whitehorse, Haeckel Hill. You can really feel it when those blades are spinning…almost concussive. However, I was working within a 100 m of it.
They now have two on that hill, but I haven’t spent much time up there since they put up the second one so I can’t comment on how it sounds/feels.
There’s a wind turbine on Rottnest Island off the coast of WA, and you don’t hear a thing as you walk past it.
Thanks so much for this channel; it’s so much more informative than I could have hoped for! Thank you for taking your time to educate us all :)
@lazyperfectionist1
I’ve stood at the base of a large turbine, and heard no more noise than a washing machine makes. I’ve also been near them on when they are more noticeable, so maybe it varies from day to day with conditions.
Still, there’s a waiting list of farmers who have had plenty of opportunity to see and hear them, and who still want them on their land in my neck of the woods.
Indeed, I found myself on a windfarm recently (I had taken a wrong turn) and I heard no noise from the machines at all. Admittedly, I didn’t walk right up to them, but still, they were drowned out by the wind.
…and to top it off, it can’t be outsourced.
@danieljand Strange. I know people who live in the vicinity of wind-farms, & they tell me that they usually forget that the farm is there until they see it. At night, the sound from the wind farm is actually *less* than the sound made by the wind blowing through the trees-at least that’s what I’ve been told.
I’d personally be a bigger fan of Wind Power if the utilities made greater use of existing storage technologies to avoid the needless waste of electricity that results from the “overproduction” of electricity at night (when wind speeds are best). Vanadium flow cells would allow wind turbines to supply a greater percent of their rated output-thus allowing for smaller wind farms to provide energy to larger geographical areas.
Wind turbines are a perfect replacement for generators when there’s power blackouts. The source is inexpensive since it’s free. Many are now aware of wind power that is being generated through ind turbines. It’s very effective and worry-free since it’s natural.
I have watched videos on Thorium based reactors. What do you know about this and how releasable is it to introduce?
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I’d prefer to comment directly on your site, but word press doesn’t make it easy. Turbines can be noisy when spinning faster than the one shown in the video. You can feel the sound in your chest. I wouldn’t want to live next door to even one big turbine.
Last I heard the Audubon Society supported turbines provided the proper EA standards were applied. We used radar to monitor bird migration pathways in BC as part of an EA for potential turbine sites.
Some facts elucidated. Some myths debunked. We needed this video as we realize that “we are swimming in energy” and all that we need to do is reach out and tap these sources.
@nlpjohn
“Not sure what you are talking about when you say “thousands of men in government””
I can name 3.
George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice.
@robhoneycutt, Professor Barry Brook is a fan of nuclear power. Google “Brave New Climate + travelling wave reactor” and you’ll see his many reasons for using Integral Fast Reactors, coming soon!
Great! Wind energy research is a must especially in places like the United States which has great potential to harness the power of the wind. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, almost 29,000 MW of wind power is currently generated in the United States as of April 2009…Transformer company, Pacific Crest Transformers offers custom built energy-efficient transformers for wind energy farms.
@Cynomys1
and it’s the perfectly named
Putnam turbine.
Like renewable energy meets Norman Rockwell.
Thumbs up for the awesome old steam-punky 1.25 megawatt wind turbine at 0:50!
Great info on bird mortality. It helps alleviate what’s always been one of the only downsides to wind power in my mind. Another issue is bat mortality, which I’ve heard is caused not so much by collisions with the blades, but by the zone of low pressure created behind the turbines which can cause a bat’s lungs to burst. But there must be a way to mitigate that, and with white nose syndrome spreading wind power is hardly the biggest threat to bats these days.