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Friday, October 22, 2010
Ararat Wind Farm Gets Green Light!
Approval has been granted to build 75 wind turbines which will be able to power 135000 zero homes with reliable dispatchable energy. These ugly behemoths disfigure the countryside while providing no real GHG emission reduction in practice due to the systemic problems of grid integration , As well as this consumers will have to pay much higher rates for energy to pay the huge subsidies for this "free" power source all for the warm fuzzy feeling of doing something ostensibly green.
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According to hydroworld.com, only 4100 megawatts of new hydro storage is under construction worldwide. That isn't even enough to store all the excess energy from conventional power plants at night, when the consumption drops. There is no way to store energy of the 200000 megawatts wind power installed worldwide. Greenies plan to increase wind power to 2300000 megawatts by 2030
ReplyDeletehttp://www.hydroworld.com/index/display/article-display/5401851359/articles/hydro-review-worldwide/Volume-18/issue-4/articles/development/worldwide-pumped_storage.html
One of the problems with pumped storage is that it
ReplyDeleteis almost impossible to get approval to build a dam because of green hysteria. Hydro could definitely make renewable power a goer but it would require huge amounts and there are not sufficient sites or the will to develop them.