Eminent Oxford Scientist Says Wind Power “Fails On Every Count”

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Eminent Oxford Scientist Says Wind Power “Fails On Every Count”

Authored by Chris Morrison via DailySceptic.org,
It could be argued that the basic arithmetic showing wind power is an economic and societal disaster in the making should be clear to a bright primary school child. Now the Oxford University mathematician and physicist, researcher at CERN and Fellow of Keble College, Emeritus Professor Wade Allison has done the sums. The U.K. is facing the likelihood of a failure in the electricity supply, he concludes.

“Wind power fails on every count,” he says, adding that governments are ignoring “overwhelming evidence” of the inadequacies of wind power, “and resorting to bluster rather than reasoned analysis”.

Professor Allison’s dire warnings are contained in a short paper recently published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. He notes that the energy provided by the Sun is “extremely weak”, which is why it was unable to provide the energy to sustain even a small global population before the Industrial Revolution with an acceptable standard of living. A similar point was made recently in more dramatic fashion by the nuclear physicist Dr. Wallace Manheimer. He argued that the infrastructure around wind and solar will not only fail, “but will cost trillions, trash large portions of the environment and be entirely unnecessary”.

In his paper, Allison concentrates on working out the numbers that lie behind the natural fluctuations in the wind. The full workings out are not complicated and can be assessed from the link above. He shows that at a wind speed of 20mph, the power produced by a wind turbine is 600 watts per square metre at full efficiency. To deliver the same power as the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant – 3,200 million watts – it would require 5.5 million square metres of turbine swept area.

It is noted that this should be quite unacceptable to those who care about birds and other environmentalists. Of course, this concern does not seem to have materialised to date. Millions of bats and birds are calculated to be slaughtered by onshore wind turbines every year. Meanwhile, off the coast of Massachusetts, work is about to start on a giant wind farm, complete with permits to harass and likely injure almost a tenth of the population of the rare North Atlantic Right whale.

When fluctuations in wind speed are taken into account in Allison’s formula, the performance of wind becomes very much worse. If the wind speed drops by half, the power available falls by a factor of eight. Almost worse, he notes, if the wind speed doubles, the power delivered goes up eight times, and the turbine has to be turned off for its own protection.

The effect of the enhanced fluctuations is dramatic, as shown in the graph above. The installed nominal generating capacity in the EU and U.K. in 2021, shown by the brown dashed line, was 236 GW, but the highest daily output was only 103 GW on March 26th. The unreliability is shown to even greater effect in the second graph that plots the wind generated offshore in the U.K. in March last year.

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Zeus
Zeus
11 months ago

The so called fossil fuels have nothing to do with fossils. It’s a misleading name. That’s the greatest hoax of all time. Petroleum and natural gas and coal come from the mantle of the earth, not from formerly dead plants and animals.

From a Remote Location
From a Remote Location
11 months ago
Reply to  Zeus

They are also manly, macho, muscular, masculine, strong, assertive, virile, erect, red-blooded, bold-colored, and perform well in the bedroom especially in the months when they’re really needed the most. Whereas solar, wind and EV’s are all, without exception, sissy, limp-wristed, effeminate, girly, highly feminized, weak, puny, limp, scrawny, flaccid, anemic, pale pastel, pansy, wimpy, like the worst case of E.D. – impotent to the point of sterility, unable to get it on when it really counts, never able to satisfy their partner in bed no matter what they do or how hard they try.

I’ve also said the ones pushing these pansy “green energy” schemes the most – and in the frontlines in the war against traditional energy sources – have been women and LGBTQ’s. My position still stands.

Last edited 11 months ago by From a Remote Location
Zeus
Zeus
11 months ago

Petroleum is inexpensive, abundant, and it can be stored for use during any emergency.
Natural gas is inexpensive, abundant, and can be stored for use during any emergency.
Coal is inexpensive, abundant, and can be stored for use during any emergency.

Electricity can be cut off instantly. It’s not easily stored in large quantities. It’s only as abundant as they want it to be.

Think about the term kill switch. Think stopping a revolution to topple a tyrannical government. Think starvation and isolation. Think control over the population. We’re up against very evil and very ruthless people.

Zeus
Zeus
11 months ago
Reply to  Zeus

The 2 down voters operate together. They’re hateful buggers.

Steve Alexander
Steve Alexander
11 months ago

Rabbits will attract Raptors, Raptors will stoop on the Rabbits and get chopped up by the blades

Aleks
Aleks
11 months ago

Off topic. Land cleared for influx of immigrants to make homes then we get contractors saying mo one wants to work so the contractors/give get blacks from India Fiji and Cambodia to help build homes and clear land. Wharmts the truth please??? I don’t buy this fake “no one wants to work”

Nabi
Nabi
11 months ago

Sheesh, Pam! Look at the comments: Your site’s going mad!

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
11 months ago

Wind power is in the same category as global warming.

keith
keith
11 months ago

Global warming? Co2 gives life to plants……..oxygen gives life to us. Over 90% of weather changes are caused by the sun, ocean currents, and volcanoes………not man.

Glen
Glen
11 months ago
Reply to  keith

Democrat congressman from california stumped other members when he asked them how much they thought CO2 was in atmosphere. They were way iff when he said it was .004% something like that.
Plus wind turbines and solar need fossil fuels to build, degrade over time and not recyclable. Both reduce in power in bad weather and have a 25 year shelf life.
Nuclear readily available, produces clean efficient energy and modern tech makes them even better.
NASA and others have plans drawn up for moon and Mars mini nuclear plants because solar not enough.

mike
mike
11 months ago

they will lie all the way to the gallows

Grendel
Grendel
11 months ago

As a geologist who has studied the last 600,000 years of RECENT geologist history, as well as the billions of years of Earth history, THERE IS NO CLIMATE CRISIS!!!!!

It was much warmer during the Medieval Optimum ( wonder why it was called “Optimum” ), the Early Roman Warm Period, and the Minoan Warm Period.

12,000 years ago, there was over 1 mile of ice on top of northern Missouri …. gee, where did it all go????? Of course the ‘climate’ is warming ….. that’s what happens AT THE END OF AN ICE AGE.

If you, seriously, think that there is an issue with the Earth getting a little warmer, go to your local Jr. College and take an Intro-geology class …… and learn some truth.

Glen
Glen
11 months ago
Reply to  Grendel

Climate is very long term. The temperature in the distant future could swing back colder. The only thing I really agree about is reducing pollution and garbage plus planting more trees which need CO2.

ORRN31
ORRN31
11 months ago

Once again, where the eff is PETA?

Zeus
Zeus
11 months ago

Imagine the prosperity in this nation if we had expanded our production to supply the world instead of being starved of our own resources. President Trump has mentioned our enormous supply many times, but who actually thinks about it? According to the experts we were supposed to run out of oil about 40 years ago, so how can it be that we can produce 2X the output of Russia and Saudi Arabia? Someone has been lying to us for a very long time.

They didn’t want us to prosper. They couldn’t allow us to prosper. Now we can see that they don’t just want to rob and crush our prosperity, they want us dead as a Republic and as a people.

All the advances in technology have worked backwards, increasing the complexity and stress and real cost of living. This should make people think about what has happened here. Once people think about it enough they’re going to realize they have been robbed blind and used to feed our enemies. A handful of evil families and their pyramid of power freaks have been out to conquer us and conquer the world at our expense.

jerry snaper
jerry snaper
11 months ago

Zeus is right. Hydrocarbon fuels are produced as the intense pressures and heat act on emissions from the earths core. That explains the high pressure gas and oil at huge depths far below where any bio material could have been. The origin of the term Fossil fuel came from a few college professors who observed fossil material in the LaBrea tar pits. Certainly the blind man describing the elephant by touching its trunk.

Zeus
Zeus
11 months ago

Climate change is the lie that was added to the “fossil fuels” source and supply lie.

They had to make us think it was too dangerous to use “fossil fuels” because it was becoming pretty obvious that there was more oil than they said there was.

There is no such thing as a greenhouse effect on this earth, and it is also impossible. There is no such thing as a greenhouse gas. CO2 is not a greenhouse gas. Methane is not a greenhouse gas. Nitrogen is not a greenhouse gas. Water vapor is not a greenhouse gas.

The only way an atmosphere can heat a planet is when the atmosphere is so enormous that the atmospheric pressure creates heat. Our atmospheric pressure does create some heat. Think about how a diesel engine creates enough heat to ignite the fuel; it uses pressure. This is the heat that does not come from the sun or the interior of the planet. If the interior heat was a problem on the surface there wouldn’t be snow or ice anywhere.

This is all really simple, but they make us believe it is complicated.

The “experts” we trust mislead us. They lie for money and positions and power.

They attack the messenger of the information that reveals them as liars and Whores (f***** anyone for money).

I was attacked relentlessly when I first brought up this subject. I was called a pea brain. I was told gravity pulls the oil from all the dead plants and animals down through the water table (oil is less dense than water, so that doesn’t make sense at all) and down through layers of impermeable rock (that doesn’t make sense either) to depths far below the deepest fossil ever found (that doesn’t make sense either). They never could explain how dead plants and animals become oil, because they don’t. I would be a pea brain if I actually believed them.

Oil = prosperity. When controlled by our RULERS, oil is like an addictive drug and a shackle. We’re hooked on it because it is the foundation of a modern world. Control of oil (and natural gas and coal) = control of people.

ROY TREPANIER
ROY TREPANIER
11 months ago

How much proof do people need to realize that Jesus is coming back, just as He said. Acts 1:11 God gave mankind 6,000 years to ‘get it right’. Times up. Now He is coming with His long prophecied judgments. The party is over, folks. The fat lady has sung. And you thought everything would just go on, and on, and on, and on.
Romans 1:22-27…..28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

ALR
ALR
11 months ago

So-called “Green Energy”, is nothing but a massive fraud. As a retired manufacturing plant electrical engineer, who worked with large power stations, I decided to do a little math. Assume you have a smaller sized nuclear power plant, which takes up about 1/2 square mile of space. It produces 5000 Megawatts of power, from four large reliable generators.
How many of the newer large wind turbines would it take to equal that reliable output? Well, modern large turbines have one 5 MW generator each, so it would take 1000 of them. But wait! The average output is only about 25% of rated because of the variability of the wind.
Therefore, it would take 4000 of these large wind turbines. Now, how much land would that take? Well, you can only place about four of these large turbines per square mile, because when the wind passes through one, it causes air turbulence downstream, which causes excess vibration in turbines using that same air stream. This works out to be at least 1000 square miles of land.
There are many other downsides most people know little about:
1. People living close to wind turbines suffer health issues
2. These turbines kill tens of thousands of eagles, hawks and other flying animals every year.
3. The maintenance costs are hundreds of times greater than for the small nuclear power plant. It only has four generators and support systems. The wind farm has 1000 times as many turbine bearings, voltage regulators, etc., which all need maintenance people to access and replace as necessary.
4. The small nuclear power plant only needs a small crew of maintenance mechanics and electricians to maintain their four generators, and they are easy to access. It takes a huge maintenance crew to service the 4000 generators in the wind farm. They are NOT easy to access. Maintenance personnel, supplies and repair parts must go up inside a 300-400 foot tall tower, or be lifted up by a giant crane. This all takes time and money.
5. The lifespan of wind turbines is only 10-12 years according to a UK study, and the actual cost to produce electricity is about 50% more than ‘regular’ sources.

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