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    Quote Originally Posted by Just AnotherPerson View Post
    See more at the link https://www.physics-astronomy.org/20...much-wind.html

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    Seeing countless renewable energy records broken and milestones passed has been a constant source of encouraging news for our planet. Now, we have yet another impressive stat to celebrate: in the first half of 2019, Scotland generated enough energy from wind power to supply its homes twice over.

    Specifically, turbines generated 9.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity between January and June, enough to supply power to 4.47 million homes – not bad for a country that has around 2.6 million homes to its name.


    It's a record high for wind energy in Scotland, and it means the turbines could have provided enough electricity for every dwelling in Scotland, plus much of northern England as well, for the first six months of the year.
    March was the high watermark, with 2,194,981 MWh of output produced in the month.

    "These are amazing figures, Scotland's wind energy revolution is clearly continuing to power ahead," says Robin Parker, the Climate & Energy Policy Manager at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). "Up and down the country, we are all benefiting from cleaner energy and so is the climate."
    "These figures show harnessing Scotland's plentiful onshore wind potential can provide clean green electricity for millions of homes across not only Scotland, but England as well."
    Windfarms are being sued in south Australia for causing blackouts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Orion Rules View Post
    So, when the coal runs out...amazing isn't it? Solar wind is abundant, there is truth in storing it. Your articles are written by those with vested interests, or because of a temporary offset. It is always time to bank on it. The specific situations mentioned may exist because of inefficient politics. JAP's article concerns Scotland. There are more energy supplies, as there will be additional suppliers. Each local area is different, as one size fits all, does not fit. The monopoly on power will be broken by it.



    Coal use is not being driven by developed nations. It is being driven by undeveloped nations who account for the majority of the increase in coal usage. That is what makes the Green New Deal silly since the US has already reduced it's CO2 and it will have no effect on undeveloped nations.
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    I am all for developments that provide us with better options.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    I am all for developments that provide us with better options.
    Who isn't but the narrative is that we must stop using fossil fuels altogether even though using them has decreased our CO2 production by switching from coal to cheap natural gas (also under attack due to fracking) and switch to 'renewable' resources that cannot do what is claimed they can. They have a place but are not capable of replacing fossil fuels based on a number of reasons. Fossil fuel capability is still needed to fill in for limits to wind and solar.

    Right now the US is the biggest producer of oil and natural gas. The US could actually separate from the global oil and gas market and provide all US energy concerns. It is still the most cost effective and least destructive to the ecosystem than what is being proposed. Wind and solar require massive mining capabilities for very limited resources and also the use of fossil fuels to build. Plastic from oil, steel, concrete, limited mineral resources (like Cobalt for batteries) require mining and huge amounts of energy to produce and also create huge amounts of CO2 like concrete, producing steel, etc.. The current limit to battery life is 10 years so everything has to start over again to produce more.

    Coal use, still the cheapest, is growing in undeveloped nations. To stop CO2 production the undeveloped nations would have to be stopped from providing affordable energy to their people.
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    Two things. First Scotland has 5M people in a very windy place that has low economic activity. That wind power even x2 would be a pimple on the ass of what a great nation like the US needs.

    Second and most importantly, Are they willing to give up their claims to North Sea oil revenues then? I am guessing NO!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Orion Rules View Post
    So, when the coal runs out...amazing isn't it? Solar wind is abundant, there is truth in storing it. Your articles are written by those with vested interests, or because of a temporary offset. It is always time to bank on it. The specific situations mentioned may exist because of inefficient politics. JAP's article concerns Scotland. There are more energy supplies, as there will be additional suppliers. Each local area is different, as one size fits all, does not fit. The monopoly on power will be broken by it.
    We have substantial coal deposits, but this isn't about coal's longevity -- this is about finding a reasonable substitute for coal if we decided not to use it anymore. That substitute is currently nuclear, which supplies fully 20% of our nation's energy needs right now. Wind is not reasonable for a number of reasons.

    Scotland is a tiny place and perhaps they're interested in littering their skies with massive turbines, but Americans aren't -- in fact, Americans are currently working to stop Big Wind, much of which is foreign-owned.

    You didn't like my links, but they were not written by people with vested interests, so that claim is false.

    Here's one from a man who has dedicated his life to environmentalism -- if you don't read any other article this year -- read this one. I mean -- if you're truly interested -- if you're just here to troll, you probably won't get much out of it.

    https://quillette.com/2019/02/27/why...ve-the-planet/
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    So, when the coal runs out...amazing isn't it? Solar wind is abundant, there is truth in storing it. Your articles are written by those with vested interests, or because of a temporary offset. It is always time to bank on it. The specific situations mentioned may exist because of inefficient politics. JAP's article concerns Scotland. There are more energy supplies, as there will be additional suppliers. Each local area is different, as one size fits all, does not fit. The monopoly on power will be broken by it.
    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    We have substantial coal deposits, but this isn't about coal's longevity -- this is about finding a reasonable substitute for coal if we decided not to use it anymore. That substitute is currently nuclear, which supplies fully 20% of our nation's energy needs right now. Wind is not reasonable for a number of reasons.

    Scotland is a tiny place and perhaps they're interested in littering their skies with massive turbines, but Americans aren't -- in fact, Americans are currently working to stop Big Wind, much of which is foreign-owned.

    You didn't like my links, but they were not written by people with vested interests, so that claim is false.

    Here's one from a man who has dedicated his life to environmentalism -- if you don't read any other article this year -- read this one. I mean -- if you're truly interested -- if you're just here to troll, you probably won't get much out of it.

    https://quillette.com/2019/02/27/why...ve-the-planet/
    You are lying, as it seems you work for, as also, protect vested interests. Monopoly, interests. Grow up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Just AnotherPerson View Post
    See more at the link https://www.physics-astronomy.org/20...much-wind.html

    Excerpt:

    Seeing countless renewable energy records broken and milestones passed has been a constant source of encouraging news for our planet. Now, we have yet another impressive stat to celebrate: in the first half of 2019, Scotland generated enough energy from wind power to supply its homes twice over.

    Specifically, turbines generated 9.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity between January and June, enough to supply power to 4.47 million homes – not bad for a country that has around 2.6 million homes to its name.


    It's a record high for wind energy in Scotland, and it means the turbines could have provided enough electricity for every dwelling in Scotland, plus much of northern England as well, for the first six months of the year.
    March was the high watermark, with 2,194,981 MWh of output produced in the month.

    "These are amazing figures, Scotland's wind energy revolution is clearly continuing to power ahead," says Robin Parker, the Climate & Energy Policy Manager at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). "Up and down the country, we are all benefiting from cleaner energy and so is the climate."
    "These figures show harnessing Scotland's plentiful onshore wind potential can provide clean green electricity for millions of homes across not only Scotland, but England as well."
    There's a book out called How the Scots Invented the Modern World

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    Quote Originally Posted by jet57 View Post
    There's a book out called How the Scots Invented the Modern World
    That looks interesting. Thank you for sharing that. I will check it out.
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    No doubt wind and solar energy are good things but they dont provide reliable 24 /7 power output.
    When we have developed massive energy storage devices to store excessive power out put for off periods of production we would have done a amazing thing.
    Hard to do will billions of users world wide.

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