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Canadian engineer Kent Hawkins' analysis, Integrating Renewables: Have Policymakers Faced the Realities, published by the United States Association for Energy Economics, lays bare the reality about industrial wind technology, showing particularly that the vastly subsidized costs, which are substantially more than any form of conventional generation, provice no capacity value, the most desired service for grids that seek to generate reliable, affordable, secure electricity. Moreover, it can offset little, if any, CO2 emissions and cannot significantly reduce the consumption of any conventional fuel, particularly fossil fuels, absent increases in nuclear or hydro production.
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C. le Pair and Kees de Groot, two Dutch engineers, have examined the impact of wind generation on fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. This is their latest findings.
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By Peter Lang
Peter Lang is an Australian engineer who provides in this paper a withering analysis of wind technology's ability to offset carbon emissions.
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By Tom Hewson
Energy expert Tom Hewson published this essay in the July issue of Power Magazine: Calculating Wind Power's Environmental Benefits.
" ... wind's unpredictability means it truly has no generating capacity value, and its construction will not displace building any new coal or natural gas generating capacity. Grid reserve margins require wind-back up, and the inefficiency of quickly firing up a natural gas unit to meet erratic wind generation output means any emissions displacement is minimal. Wind is simply an additional capital cost which proves to be more than twice as expensive for the ratepayer."
Link: http://www.evainc.com/Publications/windpowerbenefit.pdf
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Jon Boone's essay, The Aesthetic Dissonance of Industrial Wind Machines, was published in Contemporary Aesthetics on September 28, 2005. |
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Less for More: The Rube Goldberg Nature of Industrial Wind Development will be published next Spring by McGraw-Hill in an anthology of essays entitled, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Environmental Issues, edited by Thomas Easton. |
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By Gleen R. Schleede
Glenn Schleede is an economist who has written extensively about the problems with the wind industry. In this essay, he clearly demonstrates the Rube Goldberg nature of wind technology while showing the improved effectiveness of other energy technologies.
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On May 3, 2007, the National Research Council of the National Academy of Science, at the behest of Congress, published its conclusions after a year of study about the Environmental Effects of Wind Energy Projects in the nation’s Mid-Atlantic region. It comprehensively evaluates the problems and limitations of the wind industry over a range of issues. See especially Chapter 2 for a Context for Analysis of Effects of Wind-Powered Electricity Generation in the United States and the Mid-Atlantic Highlands.
Link: www.vawind.org/Assets/NRC/NRC_Wind.htm |
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Jesse Ausubel, noted conservation biologist and climate change researcher, and Director for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University, recently published a brief essay, Renewable and Nuclear Heresies in the International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Vol. 1, No.3, 2007. He discusses the importance of conserving important natural habitats on land and the oceans, shows the intrusive nature of renewable energy projects, and summarizes the continuing per capita decline in the use of carbon for energy.
Link: http://phe.rockefeller.edu/docs/HeresiesFinal.pdf |
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Britain’s David White wrote Reduction in Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Estimating the Potential Contribution from Wind-Power, commissioned and published by the Renewable Energy Foundation, December 2004. It is a thorough, beautifully reasoned analysis of the limitations of industrial wind as a source of energy and as a method of reducing CO2 emissions.
Link: www.windaction.org/documents/225 |
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Tom Adam’s Review of Wind Power Results in Ontario: May to October 2006 published in Energy Probe, November 15, 2006. Adams is executive director of Energy Probe, an independent consumer and environmental research team in Canada. He provides a detailed analysis that reports accurately about the subject, despite Energy Probe’s active support of industrial wind development.
Link: www.energyprobe.org/energyprobe/articles/EPreviewofwindpowerresults.pdf |
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