Wind Energy And Its Many Considerable
Problems
Heavy government subsidies and preferential treatment (aka favoritism)
sure is a big problem causing serious economic distortions and excessive costs of energy for consumers and
businesses.
That you have to maintain large redundant supplies of conventional electricity
generation for those days when there is not sufficient wind is another
really big problem. This problem is compounded, because conventional electricity
generation has to be run continuously to be ready for the event of lack of wind
or they have to be stopped when winds are strong.
That wind energy turbines kill
birds and bats etc. (including endangered species); that they generate sounds
and are unsightly are problems neatly overlooked by environmentalists and
global warming alarmists.
But To Put The Cart Before The Horse Is A
Fundamental Problem
Reliable storage and retrieval
of electricity is the first order problem to be resolved. Thus government
should focus basic research in this area and leave the energy markets alone. If
all these government subsidies were spent on this kind of basic research …
As long as we humans have not developed
economical and efficient means to store large amounts of electricity that can
be retrieved fast and over long periods of time, we should abandon wind energy
as a pipe dream.
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