Sentences with phrase «of unreliable wind»

It also ignores the problem of adding large amounts of unreliable wind to the grid that could require adding battery or other storage at an additional cost.

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Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil sands are a much more sane solution to current energy needs than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).

We need to abandon this crazy and costly policy of spending untold millions on littering the countryside with useless wind turbines and solar panels and moving from a sensible energy policy of having cheap and reliable forms of energy to a policy of having unreliable and costly energy.

In his report, published in the October 1975 issue of Weatherwise, Vonnegut explained that using a cannon to fire a dead chicken into a tornado — a technique described in 1842 and 1890 — was unreliable because it is impossible to tell whether the cannon or the wind plucked the feathers.

Now the western climate alarmists are so damn dumb that they think that somehow wind has got more reliable after 400 years of getting rid of wind power for the very reasons of it's abysmally low and completely unpredictable and unreliable power output in what was an industrializing society.

AUSTRALIA»S once key economic advantage and proud boast of having the cheapest power prices in the world has been sacrificed at the altar of climate change by its politicians» obsession with global warming theory and subsequent mad rush into large - scale unreliable «energy» sources — wind and solar.

If power generator owners and governments had decreed that the most inefficient and most unreliable, most costly power generation systems that could be conceived to generate power for our modern civilisation were to be the norm then the so called renewable energy systems of wind and solar along with highly inefficient fossil fuel burning idling generators as standby's when the renewables fail to produce power then it is doubtful that a more hopelessly inefficient and unreliable system could be devised for a civilisation that depends so utterly on having dead steady, totally reliable, at call power every second of every day to run that civilisation's entire very sophisticated structures

2) Subsidies and mandates that force increased amounts of unreliable sources of electricity on the grid, such as wind and solar power, and undermine the normal operation of reliable power plants.

In his February 2015 report for the Institute for Energy Research (IER), Fisher attacked wind and solar power as «unreliable» sources of electricity.

for the Institute for Energy Research (IER), Fisher attacked wind and solar power as «unreliable» sources of electricity.

Since we began in December 2012, we have added to our concerns the economic and social harm caused by rocketing power prices and unreliable power supplies, the product of heavily subsidised and intermittent wind power: the results that have played out in Australia's wind power capital, South Australia, will cripple that State at an economic and social level for decades to come.

A hundred - plus years ago, wind energy was recognized as an antiquated, unreliable and expensive source of energy — and now, after hundreds of billions of wasted tax and consumer dollars, we find that (surprise!)

Due to the inherent unreliable performance of wind power and political opposition to nuclear power plants, Germany has been forced to return to coal to generate electricity.

Heavily subsidized, sporadic, unreliable wind and solar combined provide less than 3 % of all U.S. energy.

You never were able to defend the IDIOCY of UNRELIABLE, INTERMITTENT, ENVIRONMENTALLY DESTUCTIVE wind power.

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

Vineyard Wind proposes to build and operate a 400 - 800 megawatt offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound that could power over 400,000 homes and help improve the resiliency of the Cape's historically unreliable electric gWind proposes to build and operate a 400 - 800 megawatt offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound that could power over 400,000 homes and help improve the resiliency of the Cape's historically unreliable electric gwind farm in Nantucket Sound that could power over 400,000 homes and help improve the resiliency of the Cape's historically unreliable electric grid.

Mesoscale wind resource maps are unreliable and the wind resource at Silverton is better than indicated on the Wind Resource Map of Austrawind resource maps are unreliable and the wind resource at Silverton is better than indicated on the Wind Resource Map of Austrawind resource at Silverton is better than indicated on the Wind Resource Map of AustraWind Resource Map of Australia;

Wind turbines generate small amounts of expensive, unreliable electricity from gargantuan installations on thousands of acres.

However, there is much proof that development of sprawling, unreliable, subsidized, mandated industrial wind factories has been vastly detrimental across the nation and the world.

The taxpayers who paid for the subsidies to build the wind farms, then paid over the odds for an unreliable source of power generation will ultimately be left to pick up the bill for clearing up the Green eco mess.

Wrecking a power market and a power grid is a piece of cake: just add massively subsidised, unreliable and intermittent wind and solar.

The one, teensy, weensy problem with the wind industry's «save the planet» pitch is that 100 % of the capacity from intermittent and unreliable wind power has to be backed - up 100 % of the time by fossil fuel generators running in the background and burning fuel ALL the time — and, therefore, increases CO2 emissions in the electricity sector.

I know of Prof. Sadoway's work at MIT, and I recently listened to a presentation by him on liquid battery technology, and that all seems really cool in terms of getting over the hurdle of wind and solar being unreliable on a grid, but that technology is still in development.

AFTER spending upwards of a trillion Euros of taxpayers money on the disastrous Energiewende program, all but destroying Germany's industrial heartland and causing widespread energy poverty to consumers and businesses alike, ideologically green - agressive Germany is giving up on its mad rush into unreliable «energy» — wind and solar — undergoing the biggest coal - fired power expansion in her history...

Unfortunately, President Obama is following President Carter by seeking approval from the environmental movement by thwarting domestic fossil fuel production and promoting unreliable, uneconomic renewable energy sources of solar, wind, ethanol from corn, and other biofuels.

Fossil fuels take a naturally dirty environment and make it clean; they take a naturally dangerous climate and make it safer; the sun and wind are intermittent, unreliable fuels that always need backup from a reliable source of energy — usually fossil fuels; and, fossil fuels are the key to improving the quality of life for billions of people in the developing world.

Additionally «nuclear maneuvers» (reductions), of 897 gigawatt hours added about $ 60 million during surplus baseload periods, caused mainly by (unreliable) intermittent power generation from wind.

Beijing has ordered wind and solar operators to stop expanding four times in the last five years because unreliable and intermittent power was damaging the country's power grid and costing the government enormous amounts of money.

The wind industry rushed to Ontario to enjoy the largesse of government support via a government program that granted above - market payments for intermittent and unreliable power.

The passing of the Green Energy Act (GEA) in 2009 resulted in adding intermittent and unreliable renewable energy that is unresponsive to demand (wind power is produced out - of - phase with demand in Ontario).

(March 5, 2011) According to the CEO of the UK's electricity grid operator, consumers are going to have to make lifestyle changes to adapt to unreliable wind power.

Solar and wind power are unlikely to ever provide more than a small fraction of the world's energy; they are too diffuse and unreliable.

Adding unreliable, unpredictable electricity sources such as wind and solar will inevitably decrease system reliability — which means increased risks of system collapse with its monumental costs even if every practical safeguard is used.

Today, China gets a trifling 0.23 per cent of its energy from unreliable wind and solar.

Stop us if you've heard this one before: massively subsidised, unreliable and intermittent wind power undercuts reliable coal - fired power plants; some of those plants close; power prices rocket; and grid managers suffer conniptions as they -LSB-...]

AS long as Left - wing / socialist governments can borrow and use other peoples» money for ideological «green» symbolism, the economic rot of unreliables — wind and solar power — fed by a collective climate change madness, will continue unchallenged, despite what the majority of people want over the eco-elites and the > 25 year - old social justice warriors.

The authors have failed to demonstrate that it is reasonable, technically feasible or economically viable to attempt to replace 59 % of U.S. coal - fired electricity generation with hundreds of thousands of windmills that are intermittent, unpredictable and unreliable in an attempt to increase wind energyís contribution to U.S. electricity supply from less than 1/10 of 1 % to 30 %.

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South Australia officially «the highest» with the highest penetration of highly subsidised unreliables — wind, solar....

There would, of course, be little need for negawatts if it weren't for unreliable wind and solar power plants being added to the grid.

The reason FERC has endorsed negawatts is because wind and solar are unreliable, and can result in the sudden interruption of supply.

Tom Keen in # 35 wrote: «Wind power is simply too unreliable and too expensive to replace a significant portion of fossil fuels in the long run.»

It was rather amusing, a couple of years back, when we had the «unreliable» Danish wind power backstopping the «reliable» (but out - of - service) Finnish nuclear reactor as well as «reliable» (but drought - hobbled) Norwegian hydropower.

The fact is that over the last five years, wind power has added more new electric generating capacity in the USA than coal and nuclear combined — in spite of the fact that both coal and nuclear have enjoyed large, and permanent public subsidies, while subsidies for wind have been small, short - term and therefore unreliable.

How could the very weak and extremely unreliable initial energy source of a wind turbine ever produce a steady power of any significance?

Industrial wind turbines provide an unreliable and fluctuating source of power that is expensive to store.

The wind doesn't always blow, and the sun doesn't always shine, so how can we possibly run our energy grid off of unreliable natural sources.

I'm not persuaded because, as explained in other posts, a megawatt of unpredictable, unreliable wind capacity has less value than a megawatt of predictable, reliable natural gas or coal capacity.

MEANWHILE, we know «unreliable» energy (wind / solar) is a giant, feel - good con, when ideologically green aggressive GERMANY has spent $ 1 Trillion Euros (of other people's money) on useless Wind and Solar power, through the — now failed — «Energiewende» program, then only to undergo her biggest coal - fired power expansion in historwind / solar) is a giant, feel - good con, when ideologically green aggressive GERMANY has spent $ 1 Trillion Euros (of other people's money) on useless Wind and Solar power, through the — now failed — «Energiewende» program, then only to undergo her biggest coal - fired power expansion in historWind and Solar power, through the — now failed — «Energiewende» program, then only to undergo her biggest coal - fired power expansion in history...