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Remember, we need to build solar panels and wind turbines for “clean green energy” to save the planet.
Now those turbine blades are not really recyclable, have a limited shelf life and delivering them will require the world’s largest plane (which doesn’t run on wind or solar) and it will require special airport facilities.
Enter Radia, which has unveiled plans for the world’s largest airplane. Dubbed the WindRunner, this behemoth aircraft promises to revolutionize the renewable energy sector by simplifying the transportation of colossal wind turbine blades…
The WindRunner’s gargantuan form will necessitate specialized infrastructure. 6,000-foot semi-prepared runways will be needed at sites where turbine blades are manufactured to accommodate its landings and takeoffs.
Nothing says clean energy and green like “6,000-foot semi-prepared runways”. And this plane is not the Spruce Goose either. (Pictured above.)
Off-shore wind farms also need specialized vessels.
Clarksons Offshore Renewables, a shipping broker that matches vessels with project developers, estimates that there are between 15 and 20 ships outside China able to install turbines with a minimum 15-megawatt capacity and that more will be needed in the next several years. Consultant Wood Mackenzie says that there are about 40 ships operating outside China, though not all are used exclusively for offshore wind. To meet future demand, Woodmac anticipates about $14.8 billion will need to be invested. So far, only about a third of that has actually been committed.
Building an enormous wind turbine is a complicated task on land, never mind on the open ocean. It starts with carefully loading components onto a ship. Towers and blades can be more than 100 meters long and the container that houses the generator, called a nacelle, is around the size of a villa. Once the ship reaches the future site of the turbine, the pieces must be removed and assembled. It takes roughly three days to install just one turbine, depending on travel time to port.
The looming shortage of ships capable of handling such turbines, some of which are almost as tall as the Chrysler Building, comes on the back of a tumultuous 2023 for the offshore wind industry.
We could be using this money and ingenuity to build reliable energy systems. Especially nuclear. But instead, we’re getting unreliable energy at premium prices. And the cost of unreliable ‘green’ energy is crushing businesses and homeowners. It’s depressing our economy.
And there’s nothing clean or green about it.
When your ‘clean energy’ needs the world’s largest plane and specialized runaways to install massive non-recyclable blades that are themselves toxic and will wear out and then go into a landfill, that’s not clean.
That reminded me, the first plane ride I ever had was in a seaplane, over San Francisco Bay, back in the 1950s. Seaplanes don’t need a runway, just suitable water and weather. They were still a big thing back then.
Hold on, are you finally admitting that we need “reliable energy systems” to combat climate change? Big step for you, Daniel. Kudos!
That’s not what he wrote.
Flying boats and amphibians can, indeed, land on water. But, to be useful, they must land near shore facilities on at least on end of the trip, where designated space properly aligned to prevailing winds and sheltered from excessive waves must be declared and preserved. That area is a lot like a runway, even if not “improved.” And aircraft that land on water require extensive protection and cleaning, especially if they land on salt water. Chalks Airways finally failed when their old Grummans had corroded beyond economic repair, and one lost a wing at the cost of several lives.
This Quixotic business of using wind to generate electricity, part time and only when the wind is neither too strong nor too weak, and requiring standby power in the form of on-demand fueled generation or immense and life-limited battery storage, is a massive financial scam. No honorable person can, confronted with the true economic and environmental consequences of wind-generated electricity, support such facilities.
It will be interesting to see how long it takes the American collective consciousness to realize the only thing green about “green” energy is the greenbacks in someone else’s pocket. It might be different if it were a zero sum gain, but it’s as far from that as “clean” energy is from being clean…and none of this matters to Karen and her 146 mile range EV as long as she can ignorantly boast her environmental prowess.
Yeah, that’s funny. The first time I remember getting suspicious about the Green movement was some decades ago when I bought some “Green” lightbulbs which were supposed to last much longer but cost 10 times as much. Naturally they all burnt out in short order. Worse, they were full of mercury or some such hazardous substance. I remember thinking that Green was a scam to sell bad products.
Those were my moment to begin to doubt the persons pushing for a green future too. Much of this planned future for humanity really does mean reduced life, and those few lording over the world for – fun and profit.
I broke one of those once when I was in Solvang, CA. There were pages of instructions on clean-up and remediation procedures advised by, I believe, the federal EPA in case of breakage due to the presence of that mercury. Ridiculous.
Oh yeah, I remember those. You basically needed a hazmat team to dispose of them…but they still ended up in the landfill. I’ll freely admit that high end LED bulbs with a power-up delay/surge protection, while annoying, have saved me hundreds of dollars a year on my electric bill and I haven’t had to replace one of them yet…I just need to go make a sandwich while I wait for full illumination. They are proof to me that good things can actually come from all of this, but the bad certainly outweighs the good.
Taking these behemoths down is just as difficult as putting them up.. Oh, and they cannot be turned into compost but make great landfill — acres of it and just as ugly as the turbines themselves.
What is the number of birds killed by those windmills. I have heard that it is hundreds per day. They break down a lot and only work when there is actual wind
The entire wind energy system is a scam. It will never be able to produce reliable energy as the energy industry now does. Nor will it ever be able to operate as a backup system because it is totally unreliable.
Those behind the wind and solar scam know this and they are just trying to destroy America’s energy system which will lead to our destruction.
Back when I lived in California I remember driving through some huge areas full of giant wind turbines, seemed like hundreds of them, and not a single one of them was turning. Not a great return on investment.
So do the Eco-Freaks still support those Bird maiming Whale Killing Wind Turbines? if so then their allowing stupid ideolgy to get in the way of their Common Sense
Not to worry, that huge plane is fueled on solar power.
the biggest most expensive hoax in world history, perpetrated by the Church of the Satanic Gases
You notice the Chinese and Indians are not playing. I suspect the whole push to litter America with these damn windmills is financed by the Chinese to ruin our grid and waste trillions of dollars.
Climate gate was always a force and a scam. This is but one more example.