I have finally seen proof that wind energy works – and of course it would be in Denmark!
Anti Wind Evidences
My apologies, in advance, to all the people who are going to protest.
I find Jim Wiegand’s research, on how wind turbines are wreaking far more raptor casualties than is being acknowledged, conclusive.
The manner in which wind farms are being forced upon the residents of East County and Ocotillo, in California, is morally offensive.
Furthermore, the Ocotillo Wind Farm does not really work! Jim Pelley has been documenting the lack of wind since the project went online. Though his report has not arrived yet this morning, I suspect it will be yet another video of wind turbines that are not moving and wind speeds of somewhere between 0 and 4 mph. You can see hundreds of his videos – 373 at last count – at the youtube site Save Ocotillo: https://www.youtube.com/user/SaveOcotillo
Wind energy works
I have heard a few stories about wind farms that work and far more about those that do not. So much, in fact, that I have come to question whether this technology even works.
It does. Let me direct you to the website: http://energinet.dk/Flash/Forside/UK/index.html It is an live online register of Denmark’s power.
Note the figures for energy being produced by wind turbines (3407 MW) and electricity consumption (3,608 MW) in the graph above . At the moment the wind turbines are producing a little more than 94% of the energy being used. When I first saw this site, last night, the turbines were producing between 96 and 97%. Earlier this morning, it was close to 100%.
Googling the site, I came across a report from last fall that shows the Danes frequently produce +90% of their energy demand.
As I am typing this, the wind picked up and those turbines are now producing 99.7% of the energy Denmark needs.
I love the simplicity of this system! Rather than waste our time with the hypothetical capacity that turbines seldom reach, the Danes show you how much is being produced and consumed at any given moment.
The graph at the top of this page is much more complex because Denmark imports a fixed amount of energy from Germany and exports surplus energy to Norway and Sweden.
In addition to wind turbines, the Danes have central power stations and local CHP stations.
They are always exporting more energy than they import, which is why the graph says “net exchange eksport.”
At the moment they are exporting 813 MW. The wind has picked up a little and if consumption had not increased even more, they would now be at +100%. Instead, they are meeting 93.38% of the amount domestically consumed.
