Important information without quite getting to the root of the issue. Due to wind droughts and lack of grid-scale storage, windpower will never work, so get it off the grid!
In Britain after the war people would say “don’t mention the war” because it would upset their German friends.
Now it seems the unspoken watchword is “don’t mention wind droughts.”
They were discovered in Australia round about 2010 and it is most unfortunate that it was too late to avert the rush to wind power which has turned out to be one of the biggest public policy blunders in recorded history.
Trillions of dollars have been spent worldwide to get more expensive and less reliable power with massive environmental impact.
Sailors and wind millers would have known about the prolonged Dunkelflautes for centuries but the meteorologists have apparently been under instruction from the parent body not to issue wind drought warnings.
The WMO is located at the heart of the climate alarm industry in the UN and they know all about wind droughts because the first assessment report from the IPCC in 1990 recommended a survey of the world’s wind resources to see the prospects for large-scale wind power.
You are 100% correct. Extended periods of wind droughts are a critical shortcoming of Wind as a reliable energy source.
My focus on this substack is the intermittency and unreliability on a moment to moment basis.
I am working on an article about energy storage where I am adressing wind & solar droughts as well as seasonal variation which is also a critical issue.
Important information without quite getting to the root of the issue. Due to wind droughts and lack of grid-scale storage, windpower will never work, so get it off the grid!
In Britain after the war people would say “don’t mention the war” because it would upset their German friends.
Now it seems the unspoken watchword is “don’t mention wind droughts.”
They were discovered in Australia round about 2010 and it is most unfortunate that it was too late to avert the rush to wind power which has turned out to be one of the biggest public policy blunders in recorded history.
Trillions of dollars have been spent worldwide to get more expensive and less reliable power with massive environmental impact.
Sailors and wind millers would have known about the prolonged Dunkelflautes for centuries but the meteorologists have apparently been under instruction from the parent body not to issue wind drought warnings.
The WMO is located at the heart of the climate alarm industry in the UN and they know all about wind droughts because the first assessment report from the IPCC in 1990 recommended a survey of the world’s wind resources to see the prospects for large-scale wind power.
We really have to talk about wind droughts.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts
You are 100% correct. Extended periods of wind droughts are a critical shortcoming of Wind as a reliable energy source.
My focus on this substack is the intermittency and unreliability on a moment to moment basis.
I am working on an article about energy storage where I am adressing wind & solar droughts as well as seasonal variation which is also a critical issue.
Thanks for the feedback.