Sentences with phrase «effects of wind power»

See http://www.ucalgary.ca/~keith/papers/66.Keith.2004.WindAndClimate.e.pdf for the only study I have been able to find on the possible effects of wind power on climate.

It's about the effects of wind power on reducing CO2 emissions.

Wikipedia also discusses bird impact in its article on the Environmental effects of wind power.

Wikipedia discusses bat impact in its article on the Environmental effects of wind power.

• That the application of the Precautionary Principle be applied due to increasing worldwide reports of adverse harmful effects of wind power.

But as people begin to see the positive effects of wind power in their community, it becomes obvious that wind power is a winner.

A 2004 study by David Keith of the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, suggested that the climatic effects of wind power might start to become apparent at a level of 2 TW.

«We don't have evidence for really strong effects of wind power on prairie chickens or their reproduction,» Sandercock said.

Not exact matches

The effect of the tariffs on the cost of imported solar panels makes it more difficult to compete with other sources of power like wind, or even makes fossil - fuel plants look attractive again, Mr. Freeman said.

As Hurricane Sandy battered the US eastern seaboard that night, the many universities, labs and research stations in its path would feel the effects of power outages, damaging winds and flooding.

Aside from the huge uncertainties about the climatic effects of extracting power from the wind, our present and near - term usage is far too tiny to make any difference.

«Some of these effects are actually welcome for agricultural reasons,» says Cristina Archer at the University of Delaware in Newark, who studies wind power.

This evening, beginning with Earth, Wind & Fire at 7 / 6C, the Documentary Channel will be airing five consecutive hours of documentaries that deal with alternative power sources; the effect of pollution on nature; the encroachment of development on the Amazonian rain forest, and the possibility of demand exceeding production of «cheap oil.»

Carbon Brief previously reported on how the effect of climate change on polar amplification could cause the amount of wind available for power generation to fall in the northern hemisphere.

Apart from the above reservations about the capacity of wind power to solve the energy problem, in the case of Southern Karystia there are also objections to the degradation of the natural environment from the accumulation of industrial installations for generating electricity within the protected area of Mount Ochi that will also have a detrimental effect on the economic life of the area, that is to say the agricultural economy and tourism.

Ea Energy Analyses, together with the working group of IEA Wind TCP Task 26, has analyzed the effects of advanced wind turbine designs on the European power sysWind TCP Task 26, has analyzed the effects of advanced wind turbine designs on the European power syswind turbine designs on the European power system.

Even relatively small changes in wind speed have a large effect on wind power production: if the wind speed decreases by half, power production decreases by a factor of eight.

To help make information accessible to policy makers and to the general public, BRI will host a two - day workshop and public presentation about areas of scientific consensus regarding the ecological effects of offshore wind power.

The destabilising effect of the wind and solar plants with their fitful offerings of non-synchronous power are irrelevant to the energy crisis in Weatherill's book.

Ontario contracted for far too much intermittent and unreliable wind and solar power creating a domino effect the increased our costs of generation.

These same newspapers continue to publish «Press Releases» on behalf of wind developers, and yet refuse to do any responsible, investigative journalism on the efficacy, effects and economics of wind power.

The cost of subsidised wind power is staggering, the effects on the grid chaotic.

We have a lot of knowledge regarding negative effects generated by wind power to spread in Sweden.

Mike Barnard last month was taken to task by researcher Jackie Rovensky of AU and NA - PAW (North American Platform Against Wind Power) for a long - standing series of malicious attacks on trusted and respected professionals worldwide, who have variously documented and researched the now widely recognized devastating effects of industrial wind on human heaWind Power) for a long - standing series of malicious attacks on trusted and respected professionals worldwide, who have variously documented and researched the now widely recognized devastating effects of industrial wind on human heawind on human health.

Bearing all that in mind, it is worth looking at wind generation's effect on costs in the first six months of 2016 and ask, are the costs are reflective of the $ 135 / MWh (+ up to 20 % COL [cost of living] increases) 20 year contracts IESO, and the Ontario Power Authority awarded?

The contracts given out for $ 3.3 B in new wind power in 2016 should be cancelled, as well as contracts for any projects not yet built, such as the Amherst Island project which has been dubbed «the worst place» for wind turbines because of its effect on migratory birds and other wildlife, to say nothing of a heritage Loyalist community.

Dams can have negative effects on the environment — sediment build up and dam failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= - hooifWJ1jY Wind Power Indirect form of solar energy Indirect form /

Other costs associated with wind power such as property value loss, effects on tourism, and human costs in terms of effects on health, have never been calculated.

[10] One set of simulations evaluates wind energy replacing coal power with different technologies serving as the back - up power to wind, in order to evaluate their effect on fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions.

A 2009 study on the negative effects of power generation by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), «The hidden costs of electricity: externalities of power generation in Australia» calculated the greenhouse impacts and health damage costs of different power generation technologies including coal, gas, wind, solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, geothermal, carbon capture and storage, and nuclear energy, and determined that health costs of burning coal are equivalent to a national health burden of around $ A2.6 billion per annum.

The people of Ontario see the environmental damage being done and the effects on people's health from high - impact wind power development — this process has to change.»

There can be no long - term CO2 emissions reduction benefit to installing more and more wind power if the long - term net effect of doing so leads to the requisite construction of more fossil fuel energy plants.

The power dissipation of a storm is proportional to the wind speed cubed (Emanuel, 2005a), as the main dissipation is from surface friction and wind stress effects, and is measured by a Power Dissipation Index (power dissipation of a storm is proportional to the wind speed cubed (Emanuel, 2005a), as the main dissipation is from surface friction and wind stress effects, and is measured by a Power Dissipation Index (Power Dissipation Index (PDI).

In July 2006 consulting firm McLennan Magasanik Associates Pty Ldt produced a report which, in effect, stated that greenhouse CO2 emissions would be reduced by about one tonne for every megawatt - hour of wind power generated.

and b. the effect of large scale wind power is «in some senses equivalent to CO2 doubling»,

Would the observed size and orientation of lakes necessary to produce or arrange lake - effect snow give a clue to what effects a wind farm or solar power plant would have (factoring in that wind farms are mechanical, not thermal, forcing, etc.)?

Let's assume that you are correct that the ENSO - related and PDI - related effects on TC power are of similar magnitude (but do note that Emanuel uses max winds and I referred to mean winds).

They cite bird mortality as an unacceptable side effect of wind - generated power.

Mr Halkema: ``... this proves that the spreading of Wind turbines over great distances has little effect on making the total power more constant, no matter whether dealing with on - or offshore Wind turbines....

«Furthermore, we show with the general circulation model simulations that some climatic effects at maximum wind power extraction are similar in magnitude to those associated with a doubling of atmospheric CO2.»

So if the sun is in effect the source of almost all power on the planet, and nature has been able to easily transform it into wind, waves, life, movement, and hydrocarbons on a daily basis, why are we so crippled and incompetent in extracting what we need from it?

The effects of wind / wave / tide / solar farms, whatever those effects might be, are going to be on the order of their power generation, like the direct heating effects of burning fuel.

Given that there is no such thing as a free lunch (first law of thermodynamics), and given that we puny humans are, despite our punyness in comparison to the massive Earth - Sun system, now producing enough greenhouse gases to seriously adversely affect our climate in the medium term, what is the likely climatological effect of all the wind - and wave - power systems which will be coming onstream in the medium term round the globe?

Link in the overlaying issues of Peak Oil, Peak Natural Gas, collapsing fisheries, severe hurricanes, the possibility of tying carbon trades to the satellite - verified effects, a rapidly approaching tipping point in media awareness of the climate issue, and rapid growth in solar and wind power product sales.

We monitor the effects of this installation, gather evidence on wind power generally and more recently campaign against plans for a further 28 turbines up to 145 - metres high — the Brechfa Forest West project.

It used European wind power time series to calculate the effect of geographical aggregation on wind's contribution to generation.

In effect, some of the power from the early morning generation was stored and then fed into the grid later in the day when the wind stopped blowing.

A brief visit to the website of the Danish anti-wind power organisation «Neighbours to wind turbines» («Naboer til Vindmøller») didn't reveal health effects being promoted as a cause of concern.»

Given that «the effect of windpower aggregation is the strongest when wind power is shared between all European countries», cross-EU grid links were seen as vital.

Repeated studies around the world have shown that wind energy does not directly cause these harms [i]; while no form of electricity generation is free of adverse effects, wind power is relatively benign compared to coal, nuclear, heavy petroleum, major dams, etc. [ii] Nor has harm been proven in countries, such as Denmark and Germany, which have a dense network of turbines and a high level of wind energy generation.