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A reminder that green industrialization is mostly fuel-powered.
Wind power is delivered chaotically, it’s costly and critically depends on the weather. So, the only purported justification is said to be a reduction of carbon dioxide gas emissions in the electricity generation sector. Putting aside whether there’s any need to do so, STT is happy to attack the myth that wind power does any such thing.
One of our posts to that effect – How Much CO2 Gets Emitted to Build a Wind Turbine? – has clocked up over 130,000 hits and still attracts attention.
In the first of the pieces below, David Wojick tackles the myth that offshore wind power generation reduces carbon dioxide gas emissions, explaining that collapses in wind power output are met by using costly to run and highly inefficient open cycle gas turbines, ramped up to keep the grid from collapsing and the lights on when calm weather sets in. With the net result…
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Quite right.
The lower efficiency of OCGTs factors in emissions and increases in costs, so more wind increases the electricity prices. That flows through the economy causing recession as ordinary people have less money to spend.
And there are few people who will vote for politicians who claim there are “saving the planet” when there is an alternative.
There are two sorts of people.
Those who care about the outcomes of actions and those who care only that such actions are done by the right people, in the right way for the right reasons. Sadly the latter are in the substantial majority. These are the people who say its better to have a sub-optimal outcome from an operation done by the NHS than a perfect outcome from an operation done privately even if tte costs are identical.
Off shore only? but this is OK? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGLwUHn8MnE