Wednesday 29 April 2009

Reliability


The great thing about wind turbines is that they have zero emissions unless...

Well, at least they don't... um...

Yeah.

6 comments:

Sergej said...

!Merde sagrada! !Son gigantes de tres brazos---y uno esta quemando!

Yet another charming thing about wind generators is, there has to be a lot of them. And they're big, therefor full of stresses. And they're relatively high-tech, so they break. Keeps the Windmill Repairmen's Union happy, I guess.

(And what's keeping us from building regular generating stations, and fueling them by burning polar bears, again?)

Neil Russell said...

There's something about that thick acrid smoke billowing away from that "green" turbine that just makes me warm all over.
Green of course is just another way of saying "overpriced" and "non-functioning".

jayessell said...

Cost to build, operate and maintain < value of electricity produced?

(Don't count subsidies or carbon credits.)

jayessell said...

Here's a comparison of cost per killowatt hour:


http://www.meic.org/energy/global_warming_pollution/renewable-energy-alternatives-1/wind_cost


1) Of course, the RATE OF CHANGE is in big blue bars, but the actual numerals are in a tiny chart.

b) If you can't trust the Montana Environmental Information Center, who can you trust?

Ivan said...

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4224763.html

Possible replacement ?

jayessell said...

Ivan:
Video instead of text = Don't ask the startup windspeed or the shutdown overspeed.