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By P Gosselin on 17. December 2025
The Munich-based daily Merkur is finally reporting on something that sus keptics have been pointing out some 20 years: Wind turbines always either produce too little or too much, and are thus uneconomical and unreliable. Image: Vernunftkraft.de In a recent insightful interview with Merkur.de, Prof. Dr. Sigismund Kobe, a renowned physicist from the TU Dresden, […]
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By P Gosselin on 18. September 2024
First mocked, then victorious: The turbine slipstream dispute By KlimaNachrichten (Translated by P. Gosselin) Professor Gerd Ganteför was called a lot of names when he reported on the so-called wake effect of wind turbines on the high seas in spring 2024. Wind turbines in wind farms not only take the wind away from each other, […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 27. June 2024
A new study documents the detrimental effects linked to living in close proximity to wind turbines. Living within 10 km of a wind turbine may be associated with serious consequences to the health and safety of people and animals. Examples include: • limb deformities in horses • birth defects (born with missing eyes and tails) […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 21. November 2022
In ‘a call against ignorance and neglect’, researchers expose the massacre of bat populations inflicted by wind turbines in Germany. Per a new study, there were 209 bats slaughtered in a span of 2 months at 3 studied wind turbine sites in Germany. This amounts to about “70 casualties per turbine.” (These turbine fatality rates […]
Posted in Green Follies, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 16. July 2022
Wind energy installation stalls, firewood becomes scarce as Germany shuts down its coal and nuclear power, sees gas stockpiles dwindle away. Firewood is getting scarce in Germany as heating prices skyrocket. Photo: P. Gosselin As natural gas and oil for heating skyrockets, many Germans are now turning to firewood as a way to keep warm […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 21. April 2022
Of California’s 23 vulnerable bird species studied (barn owls, golden eagles, road runners, yellow-billed cuckoos…), scientists have found 11 are now experiencing at least a 20% decline in their population growth rates because wind turbines and solar panels are killing them and/or destroying their limited-range habitat. California’s mild-winter Mediterranean climate is home to some of […]
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By P Gosselin on 15. March 2022
4 recent studies tell us that forest thinning for the production of wood pellets and clear cutting for wind parks are really dumb ideas. Reforestation and afforestation (R&A) are among the most prominent ideas for the sequestration of CO2 and thus viewed by alarmists as a climate solution. But others doubt forests play much of […]
Posted in Cooling/Temperature, Pollution, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 26. February 2022
Before their approval, largescale projects in Germany – almost without exception – have to be studied to determine their impacts on the surrounding environment. This step seems to be ignored for North Sea wind farms. Hat-tip: Die kalte Sonne. Wind farms are altering the North Sea Atmospheric wakes extending from the bottom to the top […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Oceans, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 20. January 2022
Wind turbines do not reduce surface warming. They enhance it. Wind power expansion is thought to be “green,” reducing CO2 emissions and consequent surface warming. But a new study (Qin et al., 2022) affirms the warming “saved” by emissions mitigation is easily exceeded by the direct surface warming from turbine-atmosphere interactions. In assessing of the […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 15. July 2021
A new study warns that “a massive expansion of impervious surfaces” is an inevitable consequence of having electric vehicles reach a 40% share of citizens’ driving needs. A land area the size of Croatia (in the European Union) or West Virginia (in the United States) must be completely covered with wind turbines to meet EV-charging […]
Posted in Emissions, Green Follies, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 28. June 2021
By ending funding for energy infrastructure projects that rely on natural gas, Europe and the United States have executed a “blanket ban” on supplying inexpensive and reliable energy to people living in poor countries. As Dr. Ramachandran details in Nature, a de facto natural gas ban effectively does nothing to propel growth in intermittently-available wind […]
Posted in Climate Politics, Green Follies, Solar, Wind Power |
By Kenneth Richard on 25. March 2021
A new study affirms 0.3 m (12 inches) of ice buildup along the tip of a wind turbine’s 50-meters-long blades during a typical ice storm dramatically reduces the blades’ capacity to rotate – even in very windy conditions. The averaged power production loss induced by this ice accretion reaches up to 80%. Image Source: TechXplore.com […]
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