Climate Cult wind farms expose the myth that wind can replace hydrocarbon fuels for power generation. The following story is typical of the problems associated with woke ‘windmills’ to generate electricity in a cold environment.
This story exposes the need to use diesel-fuelled generators to power the ‘windmills’ to de-ice them in cold weather, that is, to keep them rotating. Also it appears that the wind turbines have been drawing electric power directly from the grid instead of supplying it to the grid.
Scotland’s wind turbines have been secretly using fossil fuels.
The revelation is now fueling environmental, health and safety concerns, especially since the diesel generated turbines were running for up to six hours a day.
Scottish Power said the company was forced to hook up 71 windmills to the fossil fuel supply after a fault on its grid. The move was an attempt to keep the turbines warm and working during the cold month of December.
South Scotland Labor MSP Colin Smyth said regardless of the reasons, using diesel to deice faulty turbines is “environmental madness.”
Source: Straight Arrow News
I don’t agree that diesel is a ‘fossil’ fuel. It is not. Read Abiogenic Deep Origin of Hydrocarbons: Not Fossils But Primordial.
Nevertheless the crazy woke Climate Cult are so blind to the physical realities of the world that they use a failed technology to pretend to efficiently generate electricity. I say ‘failed’ because windmills were put out of service the day the industrial revolution was fired up (pun intended) with carbon based fuels from petroleum and coal. And in the case of modern wind turbines they do not always generate electricity; they also consume it from the grid.
The Climate Cult needs the hydrocarbon fuels they claim to replace in their green utopia.
Hydrocarbon-based fuels were provided providentially by the Creator of this planet for our use. That includes coal, which has been so demonised in the Western woke press as some sort evil. But the Climate Cult must have forgotten to tell China about that because it builds 2 coal-fired power stations every week. No other source of non-nuclear power is reliable for baseload generation.
How will wind turbines work in a globally cooling climate as Earth heads into a grand solar minimum and temperatures plummet? This case from Scotland may give us a hint. And as cloud cover increases with cooler weather and more precipitation how will solar perform? It won’t.
The two worst choices for electricity generation in cold, wet and stormy environments are solar and wind. Solar is obvious. No sun means no power generation. But you might think wind is a much better choice under those conditions.
However wind turbine rotors have to be shut down if the wind becomes too strong and/or rapidly changes in strength. They are shut down when too much ice forms or when there is insufficient wind. And now we have learned in Scotland they just turn on the diesel generators when that happens or they draw power directly from the grid.
Where are all the non-woke engineers? Were they all fired? It must be that only ‘green’ crazy cultists run countries like Scotland, which implement such nonsensical projects.
In regards to wind turbines going forward, once they have destroyed all the coal or natural gas electricity generators, how are they going to keep the rotors turning and the lights on?
These devices are based on a rotating shaft with a massive bearing, which must suffer massive frictional forces. In this case only a high quality heavy duty oil could lubricate that and I am sure it would need to be regularly replaced.
Massive amounts of carbon-based oil are needed for lubrication of all gears and bearings in the system, which is mechanical in its nature. Wind turbine applications consume over 80% of the total supply of synthetic lubricants. Synthetic lubricants are manufactured using chemically modified petroleum components rather than whole crude oil. These are used in the wind turbine gearboxes, generator bearings, and open gear systems such as pitch and yaw gears.
Now we also know that icing causes the rotors to stop turning so diesel power has to be used to keep the bearings warm during cold weather. The diesel generator is needed to get the blades turning on start up to overcome the limiting friction of the bearing or when the speed of the rotor drops too low.
In this case in Scotland 71 windmills on the farm were supplied with diesel power. Each windmill has its own diesel generator. Just think of that.
What about the manufacturing of these windmills?
The blades are made from tons of fibreglass. Manufacturing fibreglass requires the mining of silica sand, limestone, kaolin clay, dolomite, and other minerals, which requires diesel driven machines. These minerals are melted in a furnace at high temperatures (around 1400°C) to produce the glass. Where does that heat come from? Not solar or wind power, that is for sure. The resin in the fibreglass comes from alcohol or petroleum based manufacturing processes.
The metal structure is made from steel that requires tons of coking coal (carbon) essential to make pig iron, which is made from iron ore in a blast furnace at temperatures up to 2200°C. The coal and iron ore is mined from the ground with giant diesel powered machines and trucks. The steel is made with pig iron and added carbon in another furnace powered by massive electric currents. Carbon is a critical element in steel making, as it reacts with iron to form the desired steel alloy. None of this comes from wind and solar power.
Wind turbine power generation is inherently intermittent and unreliable. It can hardly called green as the wind turbines require enormous amounts of hydrocarbons in their manufacture and continued operation. They are also at times supplied with electric power from the same grid that they are intending to generate power for.
Addendum (added August 6, 2024)
As Dangerous as Asbestos
Composite materials used to make rotor blades are glass fibres (“GRP”), balsa wood, steel elements, and, in the case of very large blades, carbon fibres (“CFRP”) are bonded with epoxy resins. These contain toxic substances such as bisphenol A [one of the more dangerous “forever chemicals,” which has a long and sordid history of human health risks]. After GRP was used as the main component for a long time, manufacturers are increasingly using plastics reinforced with carbon fibres (CFRP) to save weight.
The fibres are embedded with the plastics in a mould and cured by heating. The result is a hard-wearing, high-strength material that is lighter than steel. CFRP is regarded as the material of the future and is also used in the aerospace, automotive and construction industries.
However, in the event of a fire at temperatures above 650 degrees Celsius, the ashes of the CFRP plastic release respirable fibres, which the World Health Organisation (“WHO”) considers to be as carcinogenic as asbestos. As burning wind turbines cannot be extinguished due to their great height, this results in uncontrollable emissions of “nasty fibres,” with the weather conditions determining the direction and spread of the highly hazardous dust. In 2014, the Federal Office of Infrastructure, Environmental Protection, and Services [orig. Bundesamt für Infrastruktur, Umweltschutz und Dienstleistung] of the German Armed Forces warned of respirable carbon fibre particles after fires.
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