While you're figuring out how to explain that chart to me DunderHead -- Let's check in and see how the 2MW wind turbines at MiddleGrund did this week...
July 25th --- 0.026MW
July 26th --- 0.070MW
July 27th --- 0.120MW
July 28th --- 0.330MW
Wow ---
After 3 days of producing almost nothing (and it would be for "bat avoidance")
we're finally up to 15% of RATED capacity.. What a freakin' deal eh??? Want to pay for 2MW and SOMETIMES get 15% of that? With the cost of back-up plant and a minute to minute dumping of somebody else's REAL power plant into the ground?
http://www.middelgrund.com/
History, Daily Summary, Middelgrunden
Date 7.28.2012
Turbine Wind Speed [m/s] Energy [kWh] Mean Power [kW]
T01 6.4 7,784 377.8
T02 6.1 128 5.4
T03 6.5 7,084 362.8
T04 6.1 7,224 356.4
T05 6.2 7,288 370.3
T06 6.1 7,396 358.6
T07 6.2 7,247 364.8
T08 6.0 7,156 359.7
T09 6.1 7,632 379.2
T10 6.1 7,516 376.4
Totals
Average 6.2 6,646 331.1
Sum All 66,455
Wow.... that's pathetic. They do have some good info on the gear oil temps though!
Republicans are weird lot, while crying "we love our freedom" they're willing to turn their energy independence over to a central corporate plutocracy -pewsh!-
"slashed deaths of bats by 93% while shaving just 1% off of power production,”
As we move forward-----forward toward American energy independence, we'll learn more and more about how to deal with situations that arise as we cross this new frontier. Last month an article was written about lowering bat fatalities by 93% while only losing 1% of the power production.
Scientists Save Bats and Birds from Wind Turbine Slaughter | Smart News
In the past two decades, wind generation in the United States has increased
almost 50 times over, now comprising nearly a full quarter of the country’s renewable energy.
Arising from this push, though, is a huge problem for the birds and bats that live near wind farms,
reports Meera Subramanian in Nature.
“The troubling issue with wind development is that we’re seeing a growing number of birds of conservation concern being killed by wind turbines,” says Albert Manville, a biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Arlington, Virginia.”
Indeed, bats seem to have a particularly rough time navigating turbines, notes
Discovery News.
“Researchers have found the cause behind mysterious bat deaths near wind turbines, in which many bat carcasses appeared uninjured. The explanation to this puzzle is that the bats’ lungs effectively blow up from the rapid pressure drop that occurs as air flows over the turbine blades.”
Subramanian’s story describes a number of ongoing efforts to come up with ways to protect flying populations, while still allowing for the expansion of a sorely-needed form of renewable energy. In one case,
“Sometimes a slight change in procedures can make a big difference. For example, most turbines are set to turn on when wind speeds reach 4.0 metres per second. But when the Iberdrola Renewables Casselman Wind Project in Pennsylvania increased the threshold to 5.5 metres per second, it slashed deaths of bats — which don’t fly as much in high winds — by 93% while shaving just 1% off of power production, says Ed Arnett.”
"Properly deployed echolocation monitoring can be an effective way to predict bat activity and, presumably, fatalities at wind-energy facilities," Weller says. "These days, pre-construction echolocation monitoring is as common as meteorological monitoring at wind-energy facilities, so the basic building blocks for these models are available at most proposed sites."
