Comments - Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket: Group to file lawsuit Wednesday against wind farm - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-28T15:02:31Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A222436&xn_auth=noGarbage Elites looting Americ…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-08-25:4401701:Comment:2224672021-08-25T16:17:28.853ZThinklike A. Mountainhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ThinklikeAMountain
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Garbage Elites looting America</strong></span></p>
<p>America is currently suffering its own humiliating Afghanistan defeat and messy withdrawal. The whole-of-government approach to failure in a 20-year, $2 trillion fraud and money-laundering scheme has resulted in an epiphany for Americans: their country is ruled by crooks, liars, and thieves.</p>
<p>If there was any doubt about the illegitimacy of this police state, one only need look at the FBI’s…</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Garbage Elites looting America</strong></span></p>
<p>America is currently suffering its own humiliating Afghanistan defeat and messy withdrawal. The whole-of-government approach to failure in a 20-year, $2 trillion fraud and money-laundering scheme has resulted in an epiphany for Americans: their country is ruled by crooks, liars, and thieves.</p>
<p>If there was any doubt about the illegitimacy of this police state, one only need look at the FBI’s latest fabricated terror plots or the Department of Homeland Security’s alarmingly evidence-free security <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorOfFoCo/status/1426405028361691136">warnings that</a> we, the people are the main enemy of America. Expect to see DHS warnings that Americans who are unhappy with the United States’ wholesale surrender and foreign policy incompetence are potential terrorists. America is now a clown show where everyone who doesn’t clap is labeled a terrorist.</p>
<p>Like with the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, our defeat there has exposed the nation’s failed leadership busy looting and wrecking what is left of our country. We can now see that we are led by the worst of humanity—a collection of garbage elites, tyrants, and political grifters. Like the Soviets before us, there are two only two classes in modern America: the ruling class, and everyone else.</p>
<p>More at weblink: <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/24/americas-failure-in-afghanistan-is-a-call-to-ordinary-americans-to-clean-house/" target="_blank">https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/24/americas-failure-in-afghanistan-is-a-call-to-ordinary-americans-to-clean-house/</a></p> Bannon Calls On Trump To Asse…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-08-25:4401701:Comment:2221962021-08-25T15:27:21.830ZThinklike A. Mountainhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ThinklikeAMountain
<p><strong>Bannon Calls On Trump To Assemble ‘Shadow Government’ to Keep Biden ‘From Destroying the Country’</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Vaccine mandates may herald the end of the republic…</strong><br></br></p>
<p><strong>Bannon Calls On Trump To Assemble ‘Shadow Government’ to Keep Biden ‘From Destroying the Country’</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Vaccine mandates may herald the end of the republic</strong><br/><a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/vaccine_mandates_may_herald_the_end_of_the_republic.html" target="_blank">https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/08/vaccine_mandates_may_h...</a></p>
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<p><strong>SUICIDE: How Vaccine Passports Will Cause the Economic Collapse of America</strong></p>
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<p><strong>None Dare Call It Conspiracy</strong></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/none_dare_call_it_conspiracy.html" target="_blank">https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/none_dare_call_it_...</a></p> Tucker Carlson Warns “Elitist…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-08-25:4401701:Comment:2221932021-08-25T15:17:52.110ZThinklike A. Mountainhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ThinklikeAMountain
<p><strong>Tucker Carlson Warns “Elitist Authoritarians” Are Intent On Making Us All “Shut Up And Obey”</strong></p>
<p>Watch the short video at the following weblink:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/video-tucker-carlson-warns-elitist-authoritarians-are-intent-on-making-us-all-shut-up-and-obey/" target="_blank">https://www.infowars.com/posts/video-tucker-carlson-warns-elitist-authoritarians-are-intent-on-making-us-all-shut-up-and-obey/…</a></p>
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<p><strong>Tucker Carlson Warns “Elitist Authoritarians” Are Intent On Making Us All “Shut Up And Obey”</strong></p>
<p>Watch the short video at the following weblink:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.infowars.com/posts/video-tucker-carlson-warns-elitist-authoritarians-are-intent-on-making-us-all-shut-up-and-obey/" target="_blank">https://www.infowars.com/posts/video-tucker-carlson-warns-elitist-authoritarians-are-intent-on-making-us-all-shut-up-and-obey/</a></p>
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<p><strong>Fox News host Tucker Carlson issued a stark warning Tuesday, emphasising that “we’re seeing now what happens when countries tolerate authoritarians, even for a moment” as people worldwide are being told to submit to increasingly draconian “rules” in the wake of the pandemic.</strong></p>
<p>Carlson noted “Has there ever been a clearer window into the society they’re trying to build? Our formerly middle-class nation now has a serf class. They’re the ones wearing the masks, being forced to take drugs they don’t want, being told not to communicate with one another, except through digital channels the Democratic Party controls.”</p>
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<p>He continued, “We now have two groups of Americans, not a broad middle. The favored and the unfavored. The saved and the damned. The vaccinated and the unvaccinated. That’s how the architects of all this see the country.”</p>
<p>Carlson also pointed to former NSA head <a href="https://summit.news/2021/08/23/bush-era-nsa-head-says-its-a-good-idea-to-send-unvaccinated-trump-supporters-to-afghanistan/">Michael Hayden’s assertion</a> that Trump supporters should be sent to Afghanistan to die.</p>
<p>“That’s how contemptuous they feel about you,” Carlson noted, adding “Shut up and fetch another glass of Riesling.</p>
<p></p> WIND AND SOLAR PROVIDE 50 PER…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-08-25:4401701:Comment:2224422021-08-25T15:08:59.626ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p><strong>WIND AND SOLAR PROVIDE 50 PERCENT OF FUTURE NEW ENGLAND ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/wind-and-solar-provide-50-percent-of-future-new-england">https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/wind-and-solar-provide-50-percent-of-future-new-england</a></p>
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<p>RE folks often advocate wind and solar provide at least 50% of the load of the NE grid.</p>
<p>This article provides an easy-to-understand analysis of what…</p>
<p><strong>WIND AND SOLAR PROVIDE 50 PERCENT OF FUTURE NEW ENGLAND ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/wind-and-solar-provide-50-percent-of-future-new-england">https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/wind-and-solar-provide-50-percent-of-future-new-england</a></p>
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<p>RE folks often advocate wind and solar provide at least 50% of the load of the NE grid.</p>
<p>This article provides an easy-to-understand analysis of what would be required for battery storage systems during wind/solar lulls</p>
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<p>ISO-NE, the NE grid operator, provides minute-by minute electricity production from gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, biomass, etc.</p>
<p>This data can be downloaded. Graphs can be prepared for each year.</p>
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<p>The graphs show periods when the sum of wind/solar production is only about 15% of what would be the average production for that time of year. Such lull periods occur at random throughout the year and may last up to 5 to 7 days. A second, usually shorter lull, may follow a few days later</p>
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<p>The annual average load on the NE grid from:</p>
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<p>All sources is about 115 billion kWh, or 0.315 billion kWh/d, or 1.890 billion kWh for 6-days</p>
<p>Wind/solar, at a future date, would be 50% x 1.890 = 0.945 billion kWh for 6 days</p>
<p>Wind/solar, during a 6-day lull, would be 15% x 0.945 = 0.142 billion kWh for 6 days</p>
<p>Wind/solar shortfall would be 0.945 - 0.142 = 0.803 billion kWh for 6 days</p>
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<p>The battery capacity to provide the shortfall would be at least 0.803/0.8 x 1.01 = 1.014 billion kWh, delivered as high voltage AC to the NE grid.</p>
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<p>The turnkey capital cost would be about $500 billion, at $500/kWh for site-specific, custom-designed, utility-grade battery systems.</p>
<p>The systems would need to be, all or partially, replaced every 15 years. Such systems are not comparable to mass-produced battery packs for electric vehicles.</p>
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<p>The battery systems would be empty after the 6-day lull.</p>
<p>If a second lull would occur a few days later, existing sources would not have been able to fill the battery in those few days, i.e., a second battery, of similar capacity, would be needed.</p>
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<p>Battery-system aging, under 24/7/365 utility service, is at least 1.5 %/y</p>
<p>Their capacity reduction would be at least 10%, at the 7-y mid-life, and at least 19%, at the 14-y near-end-life.</p>
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<p><strong>APPENDIX 1</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Turnkey Capital Costs of Grid-Scale Battery Systems</strong></p>
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<p>The <strong>US average</strong> turnkey capital cost of site-specific, custom-designed, grid-scale battery systems is at least $600/kWh, delivered as AC.</p>
<p>The <strong>NE average</strong> turnkey capital cost for such systems is about $750/kWh AC</p>
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<p>Such high $/kWh costs are likely to prevail for at least 10 more years, unless major technical breakthroughs are discovered, and subsequently implemented on a large scale. See URL</p>
<p><a href="https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/economics-of-utility-scale-battery-systems-for-duck-curves">https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/economics-of-utility-scale-battery-systems-for-duck-curves</a> </p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Site-specific, custom-designed, grid-scale battery systems, that operate 24/7/365, have a much higher turnkey cost per kWh (about $600 per kWh, at present), than mass-produced battery packs for installation in EVs, that operate a few hours per day (about $125 - $175 per kWh, at present). The two are <strong>not comparable.</strong></p>
<p> <strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: The EIA graph, based on surveys of battery system users, shows slowly decreasing costs after 2018</p>
<p>The range of values likely would become $900 to $450 per kWh in 2025.</p>
<p>The values would be near the high end of the range in New England. See graph in URL</p>
<p><a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=45596">https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=45596</a></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<table>
<tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Table 6/Battery system turnkey cost</strong></p>
</td>
<td><p>Range</p>
</td>
<td><p>Average</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>Year</p>
</td>
<td><p> $/kWh as AC</p>
</td>
<td><p> $/kWh as AC</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>2015</p>
</td>
<td><p> 2500 to 1750</p>
</td>
<td><p> 2152</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>2016</p>
</td>
<td><p> 2800 to 750</p>
</td>
<td><p> 1250</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>2017</p>
</td>
<td><p> 1500 to 700</p>
</td>
<td><p> 800</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>2018</p>
</td>
<td><p> 1250 to 500</p>
</td>
<td><p> 625</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>2025</p>
</td>
<td><p> 900 to 450</p>
</td>
<td><p> 500</p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>APPENDIX 2</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Energy Losses of Large-Scale Battery Systems</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>1)</strong> This article identifies 18 losses of a battery system, including thermal management, monitoring and control, totaling about 20% for a round-trip, excluding transformer losses. See note</p>
<p>Open URL and click on “View Open Manuscript”</p>
<p>See figures 3, 4 and 17 of article.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261917315696">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261917315696</a></p>
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<p><strong>2)</strong> Per EIA survey, grid-scale battery efficiency is about 80%, AC to AC basis, excluding transformer losses. Aging had only a minor effect, because the battery systems were only a few years old. See note.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46756">https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46756</a></p>
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<p><strong>NOTE: </strong>Usually, AC electricity from a distribution grid has to pass through a step-down transformer, about a 1% loss, to reduce the voltage to that of the battery, then the AC is converted to DC, then inside the battery. The DC energy from the battery has to be digitized, then made into a sine wave with the same phase and 60-cycle frequency as the grid, then via a step-up transformer, about a 1% loss, to the distribution grid, for an overall efficiency of about 78%, much less with aging. See URL</p>
<p><a href="https://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-inverters-work.html">https://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-inverters-work.html</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>NOTE:</strong> This article has detailed analyses of battery systems</p>
<p><strong>HIGH COSTS OF WIND, SOLAR, AND BATTERY SYSTEMS IN NEW ENGLAND</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/high-costs-of-wind-solar-and-battery-systems">https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/high-costs-of-wind-solar-and-battery-systems</a></p>
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<p><strong>APPENDIX 3</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Energy Losses of EVs<span> </span></strong></p>
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<p>Electric vehicle charging has losses of about 16% in summer, about 18% in winter, from AC wall outlet, then the AC is converted to DC, then inside the battery. There are additional losses for on-board auxiliary systems <strong>during charging.</strong></p>
<p>During operation, there are losses from the battery to the wheels, and on-going losses for on-board operating auxiliary systems, such as: 1) battery and cabin cooling/heating; 2) heated seats, mirrors, windows, and 3) music, instrumentation, etc.</p>
<p>Auxiliary losses greatly increase during hot and cold weather.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>NOTE</strong>: This article has four real-world examples of EV charging losses. See part 3 of article</p>
<p><strong>POOR ECONOMICS AND MINIMAL CO2 REDUCTION OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES IN NEW ENGLAND</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/poor-economics-of-electric-vehicles-in-new-england">https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/poor-economics-of-electric-vehicles-in-new-england</a></p>
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<p> </p> Good luck - big bucks on Wind…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-08-25:4401701:Comment:2224402021-08-25T14:57:28.069ZKenneth Capronhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/KennethCapron
<p>Good luck - big bucks on Wind's side.<br/>I don't see why these wind farms are even an option in the specific realm of endangered species.<br/>I have come to believe that the Right Whale issue was created by the Wind profiteers just to get fishermen out of the way. But they need to be equally as accountable.</p>
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<p>Good luck - big bucks on Wind's side.<br/>I don't see why these wind farms are even an option in the specific realm of endangered species.<br/>I have come to believe that the Right Whale issue was created by the Wind profiteers just to get fishermen out of the way. But they need to be equally as accountable.</p>
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