Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Wind power is a disaster for Ontario

Anybody who can stare at the Pickering wind mill all day, knows this for a fact. The damn thing never rotates when you need power. I remember whole summers when you could hang limp laundry on the blades!

Now, there is more data on the entire Ontario fleet, and it's not pretty. With wind power, it never rains, but it pours, and it does so everywhere all at once! When we are locating seismometers in Ontario, the only thing we look out for are trees, because wind can blank out the whole array. Anything else, such as trains, cows, farmers, etc, only happens to one seismometer at a time.

Getting power from this is like trying to harness lightning. What do you do when there is no wind? What do you when there's lots, dry the clothes in the dryer? Close the windows and put on the air conditioner? All the time on the highway, I see these huge wind turbine blades being transported to somewhere, and I know that somebody is making a lot of money...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wind power is the biggest hoax of the decade. When I've contacted wind companies asking to clarify their grandiose claims of CO2 reduction, I get no response.

When will the public wake up? Meanwhile, the coal plants keep chugging away in Ontario with no scrubbers....

We've slid back into the dark ages. I think human sacrifice will do more to curb global warming than wind turbines. Let's start with David Suzuki.

Harold Asmis said...

And we're in the worst spot in the world for solar as well. If we never get nuclear off the ground, as looks likely (I think OPG just said it's 150 year project!), then scrubbed coal is the most realistic option. We'll have to cut CO2 in the transport sector by having congestion pricing.