JOHN LEE PETTIMORE (40 YR MINING VET): 46 reasons wind turbines can't replace fossil fuels!
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1 Windmills require petroleum every single step of their life cycle. If they can’t replicate themselves using wind turbine generated electricity, they are not sustainable.
2 SCALE. Too many windmills needed to replace fossil fuels.
3 SCALE. Wind turbines can’t be built fast enough to replace fossils
4 Not enough materials such as rare earth metals or fossil fueled heat to create the cement, steel, epoxy, and other parts needed.
5 Not enough dispatchable power, such as natural gas or hydropower, to balance wind intermittency and unreliability.
6 Wind blows seasonally, so for much of there year there isn’t much wind.
7 When too much wind is blowing for the grid to cope with and not blackout, it has to be curtailed. If the wind is over 55 mph the wind turbine also has to shut down or risk being damaged.
8 The best wind areas will never be developed – they’re too far from cities and the Grid.
9 The Grid Can’t Handle Wind Power without natural gas.
10 The role of the grid is to keep the supply of power steady and predictable. Wind does the opposite, at some point of penetration it may become impossible to keep the grid from crashing.
11 Windmills wouldn’t be built without huge subsidies and tax breaks.
12 Tremendous environmental damage from mining material for windmills.
13 Wind is only strong enough to justify windmills in a few regions.
14 The electric grid needs to be much larger than it is now.
15 Wind blows the strongest when customer demand is the weakest.
16 No utility scale energy storage in sight.
17 Wind Power surges harm industrial customers.
18 Energy returned on Energy Invested is negative.
19 Wind Turbines break down too often.
20 Wind doesn’t reduce CO2.
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