WIND ENERGY is extremely efficient

[Hamloc]

Wind energy makes sense in Canada at a generation at a cost of 3 to 4 cents per kWh as the article I posted indicates.
What are you currently paying for hydro in Sask and Alberta? cents per kWh?

So I am curious Integrity Farmer today is the first day out of the last seven that wind power is being generated in any useable amount in Alberta due to the lack of wind for the previous six days, so in that context does it matter what it costs to generate when there is none to buy?

[sumdumguy]

Three windmills around here. All are STOPPED. Guess why? Wind is not a constant speed and ice forms on the blades. Both perils destroy them.

[furrowtickler]

Wind also has a better fit in a costal location. It is always windy on the coast. Denmark has lots of windmills in the Ocean.

Agree .
What’s the power demand in Denmark per household when they are 40 below with now wind?
Just asking for a friend...

Also the incredibly consistent trade winds from the ocean in and around Denmark...... well that’s non existent in Sask and Alberta .

[furrowtickler]

Wind also has a better fit in a costal location. It is always windy on the coast. Denmark has lots of windmills in the Ocean.

George Straight comes to mind .... “Ocean Front Property”

Wind power will only be a temporary relief of the power required in the centre of continental areas.
Comparing Sask and Alberta to coastal regions let alone tropical coastal regions is a bit of a stretch . Most of the areas mentioned have never been below 0 deg C ........

[TSIPP]

I do want to believe wind turbines are a great way to help for powering our future but I’m not sure the numbers are real or not, if you remember roughly 10 years ago 3 hockey rinks had gotten wind turbines I think sask power helped purchase the turbines and a website was made so people could check on how much electricity was produced, Pretty much every time I checked the turbines were actually using more electricity than they made and now I’m having a hard time even finding any thing on the web about these turbines.

There’s a ton of money going into these turbines and people are getting rich on our tax dollars and I’d really like real world numbers and not the BS ones.

[jimmy]

We live on a block of ice for over half a year where people’s lives depend on system that can supply heat 24/7. You can’t compare Canada to other parts of the world it’s bloody cold here plus we sit in the dark for over half of it. In Billing’s Montana when it hit -20 with no wind they where in a panic and thought the world was going to end. Meanwhile north of 49 it was -40 with a normal breeze. Costa Rica vs Canada is about the same as comparing a penguin to a hummingbird

[ColevilleH2S]

Denmark WIND ELECTRICITY

Denmark hit a major renewable energy milestone in 2019, producing nearly half of its electricity from wind alone.

State-run energy operator Energinet announced its new wind record on Twitter Thursday. The renewable energy source now makes up 47 percent of the country’s energy consumption, heating the previous record set in 2017 of 43 percent.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/denmark-sets-new-record-for-wind-energy-putting-us-all-1840777389

Interesting you bring up Denmark. They have the highest mix of renewable generation in the EU, and they also have the highest consumer electricity rates in the EU.
If wind generation is so cheap, why do the Danes pay so much more for their power?

[sumdumguy]

I’d like to make one big wind funnel, point it at Chuck and Integrity and blow them to the coast of Denmark. After a few years, they can report back to us on windmills. I bet you all knew what I really wanted to say😂

[furrowtickler]

Denmark WIND ELECTRICITY

Denmark hit a major renewable energy milestone in 2019, producing nearly half of its electricity from wind alone.

State-run energy operator Energinet announced its new wind record on Twitter Thursday. The renewable energy source now makes up 47 percent of the country’s energy consumption, heating the previous record set in 2017 of 43 percent.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/denmark-sets-new-record-for-wind-energy-putting-us-all-1840777389

Kinda meaningless to us here in the centre of a huge continent with very unreliable wind patterns and velocities.
Great that it works well in areas like Denmark with continuous steady reliable trade winds from off the oceans .
Not a reality here though , then add in much lower temperatures that demand more power usage. Power consumption at -30 to -40 is much different than areas like Denmark that rarely drop below freezing .
You make a good point that it works in certain areas in the world , but any grade 10 student knows that .

[jazz]

The GST on carbon tax is bringing in about $150m a year. Why dont they build 150 windmills with that money if renweables are so great and the climate is going to hell?

[TSIPP]

I guess I was close but not three but four hockey rinks got wind turbines, at five hundred thousand each and hopefully making 8 thousand in power a year and costing 25 hundred a year in maintenance.
It sure doesn’t sound like a winner.

The wind turbines were installed in Central Butte, Eatonia, Shaunavon and Strasbourg. I’m wondering if these turbines are in operation.

A guy down the road put up a fairly large turbine I think it cost a little more than a hundred grand and a few years later the company that built it went broke and the blades haven’t turned since.

If these turbines were such a good deal there'd be way more installations in the country side, after all most farm houses in the 40s and 50s had a water pump windmill and a 6 volt battery charger windmill.

[chuckChuck]

The flat earth society on Agriville isn't prepared to admit human caused climate change is an issue nor something they should do anything about.

So they will find and fabricate any reason possible not to support any efforts to reduce carbon emisssions with renewable energy sources.

About the only thing they will support is ethanol and bio-fuels which have questionable carbon emission reduction benefits, but they do help prop up ag commidity prices based on government mandated Renewable Fuel Standard.

"The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requires U.S. transportation fuel to contain a minimum volume of renewable fuel. The RFS—established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-58; EPAct05) and expanded in 2007 by the Energy Independence and Security Act (P.L. 110-140; EISA)—began with 4 billion gallons of renewable fuel in 2006 and aims to ascend to 36 billion gallons in 2022. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has statutory authority to determine the volume amounts after 2022."