71 Wind Turbines at Windfarm in Scotland Powered by Diesel Generators!

[PoS]

Dozens of giant turbines at Scots windfarms powered by diesel generators

Scottish Power admitted 71 of its windmills were hooked up to the fossil fuel supply after a fault developed with their power supply.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

LOL LMAO ROTFLMFAO!

 

[HIP56948]

Some of it was poor maintenance and downright stealing. There's over a thousand windmills but the CEO is from Spain.
His salary is over 11 million per year. They need to get their act together.

"At the time Sharon Graham, Unite general secretary, said: “How’s that for trickle-down economics? Billion of pounds are being handed over from Scottish Power to Iberdrola in Spain.

"Trickle down from Scotland to Spanish shareholders."

Galan, the CEO of ScottishPower’s parent company Iberdrola, once appeared before Spain’s High Court in relation to allegations that he spied on the chairman of Real Madrid. He gave testimony behind closed doors over whether Iberdrola hired police chief turned private detective Jose Manuel Villarejo.

 

[BlueTex]

Another title that could have been used: "Emergency generators activated to protect power generation facilities"

 

[Threegoofs]

Dozens of giant turbines at Scots windfarms powered by diesel generators

Scottish Power admitted 71 of its windmills were hooked up to the fossil fuel supply after a fault developed with their power supply.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

LOL LMAO ROTFLMFAO!

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Its from the 'You-couldnt-make-it-up' department.... yet.... they made it up.

The generators are not powering the wind turbines. They are being used to de-ice them, because the company that runs them didnt install the de-icing wiring correctly.

Thats a fault of the people running it, not the technology. But thats over the head for a guy who writes science fiction, apparently.

 

[phoenix2020]

Its from the 'You-couldnt-make-it-up' department.... yet.... they made it up.

The generators are not powering the wind turbines. They are being used to de-ice them, because the company that runs them didnt install the de-icing wiring correctly.

Thats a fault of the people running it, not the technology. But thats over the head for a guy who writes science fiction, apparently.

Well, they got the fiction part down.

 

[lemmiwinx]

Still and all it makes environmentalists all gooey inside knowing they're saving a few baby ducks from all out climate change.

 

[Slartibartfast]

This fight between wind power and fossil fuels is dumb and juvenile.

Power generation technology is evolving, it’s as simple as that.

 

[Galactic Spin]

Another title that could have been used: "Emergency generators activated to protect power generation facilities"

But that isn't painfully shallow and retarded!

 

[Mr Person]

Another title that could have been used: "Emergency generators activated to protect power generation facilities"

But that wouldn't let him share his....

LOL LMAO ROTFLMFAO!

..... uhh... farting noises, apparently?

 

[Threegoofs]

But that wouldn't let him share his....



..... uhh... farting noises, apparently?

The guy gets clowned so often I suspect hes just an attention whoring POE.

 

[longview]

When we push technology beyond our capability, it can sometimes end poorly.
With wind power the trade off was that to capture a higher percentage of the wind, they required
large volumes of clean moving air, and precision blades.
It remains an open question if our material science is up to the task, of making a windturbine,
that can withstand the variety of conditions outside.

 

[Galactic Spin]

When we push technology beyond our capability, it can sometimes end poorly.
With wind power the trade off was that to capture a higher percentage of the wind, they required
large volumes of clean moving air, and precision blades.
It remains an open question if our material science is up to the task, of making a windturbine,
that can withstand the variety of conditions outside.

Only one way to find out...

 

[longview]

Only one way to find out...

The Experiment is not going well!
Inflation crippling wind energy despite Biden climate law, turbine giant says

A leading wind turbine maker is imploring Washington and state governments for more policy support only months after Congress passed hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies for green energy, arguing the new law alone is insufficient to help the industry reckon with high inflation.

The bottom line is that if the turbines cannot compete with traditional sources without subsidies,
then they are not ready. We see lots of news stories about how wind is how cheaper than coal,
but it sounds like all the costs have not been figured in.
US offshore wind prices fell 13%, to $84/MWh, in 2021 as the project pipeline grew: DOE

The estimated levelized cost of energy for U.S. fixed-bottom offshore wind projects fell 13% to $84/MWh on average last year from 2020, with prices expected to drop to around $60/MWh by the end of the decade, according to the Department of Energy.

It is very subjective about what a MWh of electricity cost to generate, but we know the wholesale price
of between $40 and $60 per MWh is very common, and since people do not sell things at a loss,
we are left to assume it cost them less than that to generate.

 

[Galactic Spin]

The Experiment is not going well!

That's quite the short-sighted opinion. I'll Reserve judgment.

 

[VanceMack]

“People should be aware that, while their energy costs continue to rise, our windfarms are not operating as efficiently as they could be due to corporate greed.”

So...apparently its not poorly operating turbines at fault...its...well...corporate greed.

 

[BlueTex]

When we push technology beyond our capability, it can sometimes end poorly.
With wind power the trade off was that to capture a higher percentage of the wind, they required
large volumes of clean moving air, and precision blades.
It remains an open question if our material science is up to the task, of making a windturbine,
that can withstand the variety of conditions outside.

Imagine how Texas would have fared if compressor stations had diesel generators last year?

 

[longview]

That's quite the short-sighted opinion. I'll Reserve judgment.

It is estimated that in Hurricane zones, they could lose half of the turbines in a given field in any given storm.
It is very difficult to design something that can be both gracefully efficient and robust enough for the weather variables.

 

[longview]

Imagine how Texas would have fared if compressor stations had diesel generators last year?

The problem was they were not identified as critical recourses to be excluded from the rolling blackouts.
The diesel generators would have only helped if they were at all the pumping stations in the chain to the power plants.

 

[BlueTex]

The problem was they were not identified as critical recourses to be excluded from the rolling blackouts.
The diesel generators would have only helped if they were at all the pumping stations in the chain to the power plants.

Sort of like in this case where they used the diesel generators?

 

[longview]

Sort of like in this case where they used the diesel generators?

No, if there are 10 pumping stations between the major pipeline and a given power plant and only 9 have backup generators,
then the power plant still goes down! The entire delivery chain needs to be complete, or the process breaks.

 

[BlueTex]

No, if there are 10 pumping stations between the major pipeline and a given power plant and only 9 have backup generators,
then the power plant still goes down! The entire delivery chain needs to be complete, or the process breaks.

Sounds a lot more fragile than wind turbines... They only needed six diesel generators to de-ice 71 wind turbines in the case above.....

 

[longview]

Sounds a lot more fragile than wind turbines... They only needed six diesel generators to de-ice 71 wind turbines in the case above.....

Please go read up on the failure mechanisms on the 2021 freeze in Texas.

 

[PoS]

Another title that could have been used: "Emergency generators activated to protect power generation facilities"

Its from the 'You-couldnt-make-it-up' department.... yet.... they made it up.

The generators are not powering the wind turbines. They are being used to de-ice them, because the company that runs them didnt install the de-icing wiring correctly.

Thats a fault of the people running it, not the technology. But thats over the head for a guy who writes science fiction, apparently.

Well, they got the fiction part down.

But that isn't painfully shallow and retarded!

LOL look at all the retarded replies from the death cult, and this one below is the dumbest one of all:

But that wouldn't let him share his....



..... uhh... farting noises, apparently?

Yeah, Mr P talks about his fart and how it will save the world from climate change.


LOL they apparently missed the point of the thread due to their non-existent reading comprehensions, in which wind power was supposed to replace fossil fuels... and yet these idiotic wind farms need diesel generators whenever there's an emergency!

 

[BlueTex]

Please go read up on the failure mechanisms on the 2021 freeze in Texas.

How many compressor stations would have needed diesel generators during the 2021 freeze?

 

[OrphanSlug]

Looks like engineers and designers need to go back to the drawing board.