WHY WIND WON'T WORK
by Charles S. Opalek, PE
believes alternative energies are the answer to all our power problems,
with wind power leading the way. The
truth is: Wind
power is unsustainable and a total waste of resources.
This the book exposes the utter uselessness of wind power,
Wind Power is Big
big winners will be developers, land owners, brokerage houses, banks,
manufacturers, governments, the "green" movement, environmentalists,
researchers, academia, and the news media. The big
will be the taxpayers and electric bill payers.
- Wind turbines rarely produce their
full power. On average, wind turbines only produce about 20%
their nameplate rating.
- Wind power is unreliable and
undispatchable. When it is needed
most, it will likely be unavailable to provide any power when it is
- Wind power is not clean. It
takes a lot of
dirty energy to make the materials, manufacture and install a wind
- Wind turbines are not environmentally
are noisy, unsightly, kill bats and birds, interfere with radars, and
have been shown to be responsible for a slew of health problems.
- Wind turbines consume electricity
whether operating or not.
Often this power is not even metered. Care to guess
paying the bill for this power?
- In theory, if 20% of US electric
replaced by wind power, the decrease in CO2 emissions would be an
- In reality, wind power doesn't reduce
all, because backup fossil power plants have to cycle wildly
inefficiently trying to keep up with erratic wind power output.
- Wind power will not replace fossil
fired power plants. Germany estimates that by 2020
up to 96% of its wind power capacity will need to be backed up by new
coal fired power plants.
- Wind power will not
reduce US dependency on foreign oil. If
wind power replaced 20% of US electric generation, the resulting
decrease in oil imports would be a measly 0.292%.
- Wind turbines have an embarrassingly
low Energy Returned On Energy Invested value of
manufacture, installation and operation of wind power facilities will
consume more than 3
times the energy they will ever produce.
suspect that wind
power isn't all
that it is crapped up to be -
are suspicious with all the seemingly
endless positive hype surrounding wind power -
wonder why no one
has anything negative to say about wind power -
need a complete source of
information to refute all the claims about wind
is the book for you.
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Author: Charles S. Opalek is a
registered Professional Engineer with a Bachelor
of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has been
practicing engineering since 1965, and has been in private practice
since 1987. Much of his background was in power generation.
He is an active consulting engineer to architects, designing
heating, ventilating, and air conditioning, plumbing and electrical
systems for industrial, commercial and residential projects.