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Post by nautonnier on Nov 10, 2019 15:44:01 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 10, 2019 15:44:59 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 10, 2019 15:45:57 GMT
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Post by mondeoman on Nov 10, 2019 21:25:09 GMT
How do you put out a fire in the middle of a lake of solar panels?? Serious question...
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 12, 2019 17:57:59 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 15, 2019 19:12:06 GMT
And here is a whole new problem ..... Dead windmills
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Post by acidohm on Nov 15, 2019 22:41:56 GMT
And here is a whole new problem ..... Dead windmills Africa suffers the contamination of dead renewables, and through the acquisition of the raw materials for their construction it seems....
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 17, 2019 13:15:09 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 18, 2019 11:22:28 GMT
"Germans fall out of love with wind power Growing opposition and lack of land spark collapse in construction of new turbines
In the first nine months of 2019, developers put up 150 new wind turbines across the country with a total capacity of 514MW — more than 80 per cent below the average build rate in the past five years and the lowest increase in capacity for two decades. The sharp decline has raised alarm among political leaders, industry executives and climate campaigners. The German government wants renewables to cover 65 per cent of the country’s electricity needs by 2030, a key target in Berlin’s campaign to drive down greenhouse gas emissions and help combat climate change. It has pledged to shut down the last nuclear power plants in 2022 and phase out coal power by 2038. Without more wind turbines, Europe’s largest economy could soon face an unenviable choice: scrap the climate targets or risk running out of power. "www.ft.com/content/d8b9b0bc-04a6-11ea-a984-fbbacad9e7ddUK is heading in the same direction.
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 19, 2019 12:04:38 GMT
This is what happens when you remove reliable baseload power generation and replace it with unreliable renewables..
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 19, 2019 15:16:23 GMT
“Stagnant EU steel demand and global overcapacity have been compounded by trade conflicts, which have turned the European market into a dumping ground for the world’s excess steel capacity,” Mumbai-based Tata Steel said. Perhaps our "not to be named President" could give them some advice.
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 23, 2019 10:59:29 GMT
"Redundancies, Bankruptcies, Unrealistic Power Contracts: The Wind Industry Crisis Deepens
Redundancies at Enercon, the ongoing saga of the Senvion bankruptcy, and growing unease within the wind industry itself at the extremely low power prices being contracted, suggest that in desperate efforts to maintain a lucrative market position the sector has put itself in danger.
Eddie O’Connor, the founder of Airtricity and Mainstream Renewable Power, is one of the most notable entrepreneurs in the wind industry and is consequently regarded with awe. His personal success speaks for itself, and if he chances to add anything further, obiter dicta, people pay attention. Speaking at the Reuters Offshore and Floating Wind Europe 2019, which was held in London on the 11th and 12th of November this year, Mr O’Connor seems to have dropped a bombshell. Reports claim that he shocked his audience by describing the wind sector as “on its knees” and in a state of “failure”, because “cut-throat” competition has driven contracted power prices to levels so low that the sector is no longer “profitable”.
No objective observer will disagree that the wind industry overall appears to be struggling. Enercon, the Mercedes Benz of turbine makers, has just announced 3,000 redundancies in its home town of Magdeburg, and admitted to a $220m loss in 2018, with worse to come in 2019 (“Thousands to lose jobs as German wind crisis hits Enercon” 11.11.2019)..........
......Cutting through the miscellany of industry difficulties Mr O’Connor went straight to the heart of the matter, profitability, with his emphasis on contracted power prices. As is notorious, there has been a strong tendency in recent years for the wind sector in general to justify earlier generous subsidies on the grounds that costs had as a result now fallen. Offshore wind projects, for example, are claiming dramatic (and implausible) capital cost reductions, backing up such claims by signing contracts to supply electricity at surprisingly low levels, even at so-called Zero-Subsidy levels. In the UK the latest instance of this is the Round 3 Allocation of Contracts for Difference, which announced prices of £40/MWh for about 4.5 GW of capacity at five gigantic projects. This appears to be below the likely wholesale price, let alone below the fundamental price needed to deliver a return on investment for the wind farms themselves."More here> www.thegwpf.com/redundancies-bankruptcies-unrealistic-power-contracts-the-wind-industry-crisis-deepens/
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Post by blustnmtn on Nov 25, 2019 13:13:28 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 25, 2019 16:09:42 GMT
Interesting that the article quotes the number of 'megawatts' in each project without qualifying the value with 'if the wind blows at the ideal design speed'. A long period of gale force winds will stop the power supply as will a period of calm winds.
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 29, 2019 13:00:46 GMT
You couldn't make this up....
Imagine back 30 years telling Greens that this would be a position that they would support...
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