For the last couple of weeks, a large portion of the US has been experiencing temperatures in the 80s and 90s. If you have air conditioning, you’re using it all day, every day. If you walk outside into the heat, you’ll notice something else, there’s no wind. This common occurrence every summer, high temps and […]
North East Wind Turbines are All Cost and No Benefit
The other day we asked why anyone would want to build wind turbines in North East Township. No one stepped forward to answer and the question continues to puzzle us. The longer we ponder, the more it becomes clear, for the residents of North East Township the wind turbine project is all cost and no […]
If Wind Turbines Were Cars, They Would All Be Recalled – Why Capacity Factor Counts
When you buy a car, you want it to be reliable, to work when you need it and you expect the engine to deliver all of the power the salesman told you it would, but suppose it didn’t do any of that. Would you be upset? Sure, you might even demand your money back, but […]
Modern Wind Energy is Like a Modern Horse and Buggy
Over a hundred years ago, transportation for more than a mile or two meant saddling your horse, if you needed groceries and supplies at the store, you hitched up a wagon to carry the load and longer trips to another town might mean taking the buggy. Horses were fine because there were no alternatives, but […]
Electricity From Wind Turbines is Bad for the Grid
If you’re a technical person, you’ll find this interesting. Wind energy advocates, while admitting wind energy is intermittent with wide and often rapid variations, assumed the presence of many turbines in a large scale wind project would average the ups and downs and transform it into smooth power to the grid, unfortunately, a new study […]
Renewable Wind Energy is Intermittent Energy
Wind energy is often called “renewable energy.” Since we don’t support wind turbines, people will ask, “Don’t you support renewable energy?” The answer is very simple, we don’t support intermittent energy, because that’s what “renewable” energy really is. Massive wind turbines only generate electricity when the wind is blowing, and how much they produce varies […]