Global wind capacity additions surged to a record high of 118GW in 2023

Denier rhetoric…

 

You're the one seeking refuge in name-calling. Those you call "deniers" are the ones posting peer-reviewed research results.

 

Facts don’t need to be peer reviewed. 118 GW of worldwide wind capacity in 2023 is fact.

 

Capacity factor? Worldwide it’s ~ 20% for wind making the 118 GW in reality only 24 GW.

 

And trivial.

 

Intentionally biased and fossil fuel motivated comment.

 

This is why it's called "intermittent."

November Wind Slump Has Led To A Strained Energy Supply In Germany…Bottlenecks Threaten
By P Gosselin on 13. November 2024

Over-reliance on wind and sun…
Citing montelnews, Blackout News here reports on the recent wind power slump experienced in Germany – due to stagnant weather conditions.



This winter’s energy supply for Germany looks bleak as experts warn of windless, sunless days ahead. Image: P. Gosselin

Wind power generation, dropped to its lowest level since 2014 and oil power generation increased to its highest level in four weeks, reaching 700 MW.

The wind lull highlights the vulnerabilities posed by relying too much on wind and solar energy, especially in the wintertime when Germany sees very little sunshine while occasionally getting periods of little wind in times of high energy demand.

Electricity prices soared to 800 EUR/MWh.

The lack of wind power last week led to a tighter energy market in Europe, particularly in central and northern regions and caused a surge in electricity prices, especially in short-term markets. Prices reached a two-year high, exceeding 800 EUR/MWh!

As a result, there’s growing concern about the potential for similar price spikes in winter if wind conditions remain weak. Germany’s economy has been battered for years by its dubious energy policies adopted by its previous governments over the past 25 years.

Fear of supply bottlenecks

Experts warn that wind power production is expected to be very low in the coming months, thus posing a threat of energy supply bottlenecks. As temperatures fall, energy demand, especially in France, is expected to rise significantly.

France can help only so much

France’s nuclear capacity can’t fully compensate for low wind power due to dependence on weather conditions. Germany has reduced its conventional power generation capacity by shutting down coal and nuclear plants and relies heavily on weather dependent power generation.

The implication for the coming winter is that Germany’s energy market faces a difficult period due to the combination of low supply and potentially high demand.

There’s a risk of energy shortages and rising prices in the coming months.

 

Inconsequential.

 

The largest wind turbine in the world -
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-la...ul-wind-turbine-ever-built-is-now-operational

The MySE 16-260 earns its largest-ever tag thanks to its rotor diameter of 260 meters (853 feet) and its swept area of 53,902 square meters (580,196 square feet); it's also the most powerful wind turbine we've seen so far, offering 16 megawatts of power.

 

More renewable waste in the future.


“About 80 percent of a wind tower—the steel, copper, and aluminum—can be recycled, but the blades pose a special problem. Wind turbine blades are primarily composed of glass-or carbon-reinforced polymers. Blades as long as 100 meters (330 feet), almost a football field in length, are strong, lightweight, and durable, making disposal difficult. Most blades today go to landfills. Wind turbine waste is already piling up in the US and other nations. Used turbine blades in Iowa are too big for local landfill sites, so they are shipped to Nebraska or Kansas for burial. Ten metric tons of turbine-blade waste results from every megawatt of wind capacity installed. It is estimated that blade waste will exceed two million tons annually by 2050, with cumulative waste estimated at 43 million tons by 2050.97

Blade recycling is immature and expensive. Some blades are chopped up, requiring heavy machinery, and then incinerated. Germany uses a small amount of blade waste as clinker in cement. Austria, Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands prohibit disposal in landfills. Wind-Europe, an advocate group, called for a landfill ban for decommissioned blades by 2025.98 Projections for the amount of waste from solar panels almost doubles the projections for wind turbine waste.

The IEA estimates there will be a cumulative global total of 78 million tons by 2050.99 This number will be even larger if homeowners with rooftop solar panels upgrade the panels before the end of their product life. After 20 years of incentives in California, worn-out panels from more than 1.3 million rooftop installations are now arriving at landfills. Fewer than one in every 10 panels is recycled. Solar panels contain small amounts of cadmium, lead, and selenium, which are sometimes classified as hazardous waste. 100”

— Green Breakdown: The Coming Renewable Energy Failure by Steve Goreham
https://a.co/4FcdkSp

 

You’ve got some really old news.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/ar...blade-recycling-and-upcycling-reality-support
Carbon Rivers Makes Wind Turbine Blade Recycling and Upcycling a Reality With Support From DOE

 

No cost information? No energy requirements? No operational facility?

What are the economics?

 

Do your own research. It’s comical for you to talk about recycling, when the power you tout leaves hazardous and radioactive waste all over the planet. And to top it off - it costs twice as much!

 

It’s your reference. But you have no understanding of the economics of a process requiring very high temperatures in the absence of Oxygen. Obviously the blades must first be rendered into much smaller pieces and introduced into a closed reactor in which the air is removed most likely by vacuum pumps. Sounds expensive.

 

Expensive? In relation to tailings ponds for coal slurry, and the associated flood control? In relation to radioactive waste which must be stored under armed security for hundreds of thousands of years. But OMG - we have to run a vacuum pump, when recycling wind turbines blades every 30 years, something done routinely in industry every day!!!

 

Where are the numbers?

 

You brought up the topic, and as usual, you have provided nothing.

 

Evasion again.

 

You brought it up. And then you can’t back it up. We get it.

 

Your post. Economics is a critical factor except to those who believe in faith based narratives.

 

Renewables will depart with a whimper, not a bang.
Are You Even Aware That There Is Another Big UN Climate Conference Going On?
November 14, 2024/ Francis Menton

• 
  The overwhelming focus of the environmental movement over the past three decades and more has been the push to eliminate the use of hydrocarbon fuels and transform the world’s energy system into something based on supposedly cleaner wind and sun.
  
  
• This effort has always been doomed to failure, because energy produced by wind and sun does not work satisfactorily and is wildly too expensive. So it has long been obvious to the well-informed that this whole effort will inevitably go away at some point. But after the desperate cries of crisis and alarm from thousands of activists for decades on end, and after the trillions of dollars government funds invested, how could that possibly occur?
  
  
• My prediction has long been that at some point the whole thing would just quietly fade away, as if it had never happened.
  

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Another Low Fact source. C’est La Vie in DENIER world. The facts of 2024 renewable expansion alone, demonstrate the “Pack of Lies” from your rag.

 

We shall see.

 

There is no “ we shall see”. It is “we are seeing”. The lying rag is lying again.

 

I believe reality is slipping away from you.