spin_dry Posted July 12, 2022 Author Share Posted July 12, 2022 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Cold War said: Drove the back roads home across Michigan. Had no idea there were so many mills spinning. Those farmers must be making a fortune renting land. Saw quite a few that were not spinning. Not sure why? Lots of reasons. Being maintained. power isn’t required and grid software in that area called for a turbine shut down. Software stopped the turbine because the angle of the sun causes flickering at a residence or farm disturbing people or animals. Turbines have that software built into them. Edited July 12, 2022 by spin_dry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold War Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 10 minutes ago, spin_dry said: Lots of reasons. Being maintained. power isn’t required and grid software in that area called for a turbine shut down. Software stopped the turbine because the angle of the sun causes flickering at a residence or farm disturbing people or animals. Turbines have that software built into them. Right. Could be lots of different reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford_428cj Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 1 hour ago, spin_dry said: If you’re that concerned about birds, kill all the domesticated cats. So your windmills can chop em up? Fuck all you faggots & your eyesores. Any body with half a brain builds nuke plants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spin_dry Posted July 12, 2022 Author Share Posted July 12, 2022 14 minutes ago, ford_428cj said: So your windmills can chop em up? Fuck all you faggots & your eyesores. Any body with half a brain builds nuke plants They aren’t chopped up. The low pressure wave kills em. Bats too. Just get your facts straight. And there won’t be any resurgence of nuke plants in America. None. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Steve753 Posted July 12, 2022 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 12, 2022 5 hours ago, irv said: If you are incapable of backreading and still struggling to piece it together then I can't help you. What are you talking about? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford_428cj Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 51 minutes ago, spin_dry said: They aren’t chopped up. The low pressure wave kills em. Bats too. Just get your facts straight. And there won’t be any resurgence of nuke plants in America. None. If all the liberal faggots like you are killed off in the next civil war - there will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spin_dry Posted July 12, 2022 Author Share Posted July 12, 2022 3 minutes ago, ford_428cj said: If all the liberal faggots like you are killed off in the next civil war - there will be. Go fuck yourself, you fat weak piece of trash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Rigid1 Posted July 12, 2022 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 12, 2022 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-11/texas-wind-power-is-failing-right-when-the-state-most-needs-it#xj4y7vzkg Producing 8% of what they should be.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irv Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 19 minutes ago, Rigid1 said: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-11/texas-wind-power-is-failing-right-when-the-state-most-needs-it#xj4y7vzkg Producing 8% of what they should be.. Great reliable system when they only work when they are needed the least. Poor Spun dried. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted July 12, 2022 Gold Member Share Posted July 12, 2022 (edited) Now for the rest of the story…. https://www.kens5.com/amp/article/news/local/texas/heres-how-texas-cleared-tight-grid-conditions-without-rolling-blackouts/273-a063e4c5-0be9-4d4c-b3a6-ca205b7e126c Solar and wind farms again produced enough power to ensure ample supply. Renewable energy sources have consistently prevented power deficits throughout the year. "We saw the grid operating as it's supposed to," Cohan said. Wind indeed underperformed by about six gigawatts Monday, Dessler said. He noted the state's thermal producers, consisting of coal, gas, and nuclear plants, also underperformed by about six gigawatts. Edited July 12, 2022 by BOHICA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Rigid1 Posted July 12, 2022 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 12, 2022 20 minutes ago, BOHICA said: Now for the rest of the story…. https://www.kens5.com/amp/article/news/local/texas/heres-how-texas-cleared-tight-grid-conditions-without-rolling-blackouts/273-a063e4c5-0be9-4d4c-b3a6-ca205b7e126c Solar and wind farms again produced enough power to ensure ample supply. Renewable energy sources have consistently prevented power deficits throughout the year. "We saw the grid operating as it's supposed to," Cohan said. Wind indeed underperformed by about six gigawatts Monday, Dessler said. He noted the state's thermal producers, consisting of coal, gas, and nuclear plants, also underperformed by about six gigawatts. Glad they had those back up generators to be safe from the under performing wind turbines..Right from your article you forgot to post.. ERCOT asked backup generators to keep 2.8 gigawatts of power on standby Monday, enough to power more than 500,000 homes.. The ERCOT news release indicated wind would generate less than 10 percent of its potential capacity Monday. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Rigid1 Posted July 12, 2022 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted July 12, 2022 It wakes you wonder if wind was only operating at 8% capacity, what was used to make up the other 92%?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted July 12, 2022 Gold Member Share Posted July 12, 2022 7 hours ago, Rigid1 said: Glad they had those back up generators to be safe from the under performing wind turbines..Right from your article you forgot to post.. ERCOT asked backup generators to keep 2.8 gigawatts of power on standby Monday, enough to power more than 500,000 homes.. The ERCOT news release indicated wind would generate less than 10 percent of its potential capacity Monday. 6 gigs of wind and thermal generation each off line. You can generate power that is not needed. How much wind and thermal was off line cause it was not needed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irv Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Can wind turbines harm wildlife? A key challenge facing the wind industry is the potential for turbines to adversely affect wild animals both directly, via collisions, as well as indirectly due to noise pollution, habitat loss, and reduced survival or reproduction. Among the most impacted wildlife are birds and bats, which by eating destructive insects provide billions of dollars of economic benefits to the country’s agricultural sector each year. How are bats affected by wind turbines? Dead bats are found beneath wind turbines all over the world. It’s estimated that tens to hundreds of thousands die at wind turbines each year in North America alone. Unfortunately, it’s not yet clear why this is happening. It’s possible that wind turbines interfere with seasonal migration and mating patterns in some species of bats. More than three quarters of the bat fatalities at wind turbines... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XCR1250 Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Texas Wind Power Is Failing Right When the State Needs It Most Brian Eckhouse and Brian K. Sullivan Mon, July 11, 2022 at 11:27 AM (Bloomberg) -- Wind power -- a key source of electricity in Texas -- is being sidelined just when the Lone Star State needs it most, with turbines generating less than a 10th of what they’re capable of. Most Read from Bloomberg Elon’s Out Trump Lashes Out at Elon Musk and ‘Rotten’ Twitter Deal Wall Street Sours on Stocks in Anemic Trading Day: Markets Wrap Putin’s New Weapon of Mass Disruption: Kazakh Oil Wuhan University Finds Cholera Case, Fueling Fears of Spread A scorching heat wave is pushing the Texas grid to the brink. Power demand is surging as people crank up air conditioners. But meanwhile, wind speeds have fallen to extremely low levels, and that means the state’s fleet of turbines is at just 8% of their potential output. Texas may be America’s oil and gas hub, but it’s also long been the country’s biggest wind-power state. The renewable energy source has become highly politicized: Some critics blamed frozen wind turbines for the Texas grid’s failure during a deadly winter storm last year, even though disruptions at plants powered by natural gas were the bigger culprit. Texas grid operators had accurately forecast that wind output would be low Monday, yet it points to a broader struggle facing the world as it transitions to cleaner energy sources. While countries across the globe are generating more electricity from intermittent wind and solar sources, large-scale, battery storage is still in its ascendancy. That leaves major grids more fragile and vulnerable to shock. Read more: Global Energy Crisis Shows Fragility of Clean-Power Era Depressed wind power during heat waves isn’t a new phenomenon. Powerful high-pressure systems that cause intense heat often squelch wind production -- just when more power is needed to meet higher electricity demand. The mass of air overhead stifles wind near the surface, until the mass moves elsewhere. Right now, one of those high-pressure systems is sitting directly over the Lone Star State. There is hope that wind power will be much more robust Tuesday, when the weather pattern is expected to shift toward New Mexico. “High pressure is sinking air, so right under the ridge -- like today in Texas -- air is sinking straight down to the ground,” said Matt Rogers, president of the Commodity Weather Group, a commercial forecaster that looks at energy and agriculture. Most Read from Bloomberg Businessweek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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