Wind energy means a large-scal technological regression
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In his presentation at the Climate and Energy Conference held by the Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) in Halle, Prof. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke explored the energy efficiency of wind turbines and finds that it is a terribly inefficient way to produce electricity.
Prof. Horst-Joachim Lüdecke concludes that wind energy is leading us “back to the Middle Ages.”
Lüdecke argues that human progress has always depended on continuously increasing the available power and energy density. This historical progression began in agriculture with draft animals, moved to medieval windmills and waterwheels, advanced to the steam engine and combustion engines, and culminated in modern coal and nuclear power plants.
According to Lüdecke, never before in human history has a society shifted on a large scale to a method that is backward-looking and yields a lower power density than already established technologies. Because wind turbines have an extremely low power density (averaging only about 3.6 watts per square meter annually and locally, compared to approximately 7,000 watts for coal plants), he views their large-scale expansion as a technological regression.
Lüdecke emphasizes that wind turbines suffer from fundamental flaws based on the laws of nature that cannot be fixed. In addition to their extreme dependence on the weather (“volatile power”), this includes the physical law stating that a wind turbine’s power output is proportional to the cube of the wind speed, If the wind speed drops by half, the power output plummets to just one-eighth (12.5%).
In summary, he views the attempt to power Germany primarily with wind and solar energy as a politically forced effort to return to an unreliable, medieval method of energy generation, thereby ignoring the historical principle of energetic progress,
The full video with all details can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7–0wDSfP-
“Climate deniers” have been making the same point for 30 years.
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Prof. Hofmann-Reinecke in an Interview:
These conferences, organized by the UNFCCC, have been held for 30 years. The first one had fewer than 100 attendees. For the conference in Brazil—which, after all, takes place in what is actually a rather uncomfortable climate with extreme heat and humidity—between 50,000 and 80,000 people are expected to attend.
For some reason, interest in these events has grown enormously. So a tremendous number of people are attending. I believe there’s a completely different reason for meeting there than simply exchanging the latest scientific data.
Driven, argued, and justified by “global warming,” fuel is subject to tariffs, and there’s emissions trading and so on. And from these sources, a total of 100 billion has accumulated by the year 2024. 100 billion is the result of the assumption that the Earth is warming, and that this warming trend can only be halted by putting a price on carbon consumption.
If this conference were to conclude, “Professor XYZ has irrefutably proven that this is all scientifically untenable!” then they might as well just call it quits. Then they wouldn’t even need to meet again next time, because there wouldn’t be another 100 billion generated from tariffs and emissions trading.
I can’t prove it legally, but a reasonable explanation is this: a massive business sector has emerged here in which money is being extracted from the average consumer, against which they have no means of defense. This money is collected and distributed among perhaps 50,000—or maybe more—clever individuals.
There’s a Spanish proverb that goes: “The fool lives off his work, and the clever man lives off the fool.” This principle also seems to underlie this whole “climate change” phenomenon and the massive business deals associated with it.
Since the medieval sale of indulgences, this has certainly been one of the world’s biggest business models—with the only difference being that the medieval sale of indulgences at least produced something like St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, which is still standing today, whereas nothing remains of this whole climate issue.