Blackouts underscore global power crisis
Despite enormous subsidies, wind and solar companies and installations frequently fail.
Despite enormous subsidies, wind and solar companies and installations frequently fail.
"Ultimately, it's going to be, unless there is major technological breakthrough in wind or solar, it's going to be around, but hopefully a lot less and hopefully not subsidized or mandated."
America's bald and golden eagles are at risk as Fish and Wildlife Service underestimates required turbine kill "offsets" by a factor as high as 241.
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The U.S. Energy Department (DOE) has an ongoing research program on detecting and deterring the killing of eagles and other flying critters by wind turbines.
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Given that the blackout occurred on a sunny day and that hydro doesn’t fluctuate with weather, any attribution leaves wind as the only likely contributing culprit.
“It appears that Dominion has unwisely spent money on alternative energy sources that produce expensive electricity. Would it not be better for Virginia and other coal producing states like Wyoming and West Virginia to invest in more clean coal generation plants?”
"It was very predictable, as we've been saying, solar and wind are variable. The grid has to have a 50 hertz, over in Europe it's 60 hertz here in America, and just going as tad below that at any point can cause massive blackouts. That's exactly what happened."
About 15 years ago the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that the golden eagle population could not withstand an increase in human caused mortality.
The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, which is being built by Dominion Energy off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is the largest boondoggle project of all, and it is subject to all of the same concerns about offshore wind.
The offset is called "compensatory mitigation" which means the wind power facility pays the FWS or their agents to have their eagle killing offset by helping others live someplace else.
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