Who woulda thunk it? Windmills really, really, suck!
Waste management experts estimate they’ll take hundreds of years to biodegrade
Hundreds of giant windmill blades are being shipped to a landfill in Wyoming to be buried because they simply can’t be recycled.Local media reports several wind farms in the state are sending over 900 un-reusable blades to the Casper Regional Landfill to be buried.
While nearly 90 percent of old or decommissioned wind turbines, like the motor housing, can be refurbished or at least crushed, fiberglass windmill blades present a problem due to their size and strength.
Landfill begins burying non-recyclable Wind Turbine Blades
Well clearly we should stop using fiberglass for anything we build......
I have nothing against a debate of the pluses and minuses of various forms of electrical generation, but we never have these.
Certainly I would prefer that wind turbines be entirely recyclable. But I would hold them to the same standards as I would hold every other industry.
What percentage of coal fired plants are 'recyclable'? Since basically what wind turbines do is replace coal plants- that is the comparison that would mean something other than you posting you found something else to confirm your bias against wind turbines.
For a energy system to be "green" it has to be less toxic than system it is replacing, and more efficient.
Solar and wind fail on both counts.
And how are wind mills more toxic than coal powered power plants?
Well for one thing, not a single coal burning power plant has been shut down because windmills replaced them.
Not even one.
So, you are basically saying we're going to keep all the pollution from our coal power plants.... AND pollute with windmills.
Since your method of pollution, does not replace any other.... its just another form of additional pollution.
Coal burning power plants have been shutting down because they are losing money.
Windpower is just one of the sources that has contributed to those closures.
No. That is factually incorrect. Coal burning power plants have been being replaced by natural gas. Not wind mills. There is not a single example anywhere.... ANYWHERE... that wind mill plants have replaced fossil fuel power plants, or nuclear.
And this isn't surprising either when you look at the power generation numbers.
The SMALLEST coal power plant in the entire state of Ohio, is 650 MW of power.
The largest wind farm in the entire state...... 4.5 MW.
You really want to try and argue that a tiny 4.5 MW wind farm, replaced even the smallest of coal power plants? Not even close. They might convert that coal power plant to nat.gas, or build a nuclear power plant, but no, the wind farm did nothing. It replaces nothing.
All of the wind farms across the entire state combined, barely produce 1% of the total power generated in the state. Now that should give you pause.... because if you are a thinking individual, you will notice that the total installed base of wind power capacity is supposedly around 500 MW of installed power... yet still is barely 1% of all power generated. How is that possible?
Answer... .because it's wind power. When the wind stops blowing, the power dies. So the number is completely irrelevant. And by the way, that is another reason that wind power can never replace conventional power.
Even if you combined all the wind farms across the state into a single massive power plant (which you can't. A wind farm in southern ohio, can't transmit power all the way to northern Ohio. You would have to produce enough power in THAT location, to replace a power plant in THAT location).
But let's live in a fantasy world where you could. You combine all the various wind farms into a single 500 MW farm. Great! Now you can shut down that coal burning power plant! Right???
No. You can't. If the power grid requires 500 MW of power, and is relying on that coal power plant.... and you put up a 500 MW wind farm... you still can't shut off that coal power plant. Because if the wind dies.... and the wind farm isn't producing enough power, you can damage the entire power grid. Which then means you have to shut off power to the entire grid until the wind farm starts producing again. That could be days.... even weeks.
You want to shut down our entire society for a day to a week, every time the wind dies down? Not happening.
So I'll say this again..... Wind power does not replace ANYTHING EVER. It never does. When Germany shut down their nuclear power plants, the first thing they did was bring online a bunch of coal power plants. Go read about it. Wind does not replaces anything. If you shut down one source of power, you don't turn on a wind mill. You turn on another conventional, reliable, consistent source of power.
Germany still constructing new coal power stations | Airclim
In fact, even in the mid-term, they contracts with France to get power. Why didn't they just put up more windmills, instead of nuclear power from France, and coal power plants being built in Germany?
Sorry, but the facts are what they are.
