Comments - National News Reports Predict Electricity Shortages Are Coming. - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-29T15:56:23Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A240683&xn_auth=no"It doesn't matter that wind…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-05-29:4401701:Comment:2408162022-05-29T14:23:10.092ZPenny Grayhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/PennyGray
<p>"It doesn't matter that wind and solar won't be able to power the planet. They're a symbol of what we should be doing." </p>
<p>I was actually told that by someone who truly believed we must continue down this path. Civilization as we know it is about to be symbolically "reset". </p>
<p>"It doesn't matter that wind and solar won't be able to power the planet. They're a symbol of what we should be doing." </p>
<p>I was actually told that by someone who truly believed we must continue down this path. Civilization as we know it is about to be symbolically "reset". </p> Green Energy Land Requiremen…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-05-29:4401701:Comment:2405962022-05-29T01:22:53.265ZEric A. Tuttlehttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/EricATuttle
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Green Energy Land Requirements</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">1 terawatts = 1,000,000 Megawatts.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Which would be 333,333.33 wind turbines</span> <b>@ 3Megawatts…</b></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Green Energy Land Requirements</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">1 terawatts = 1,000,000 Megawatts.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Which would be 333,333.33 wind turbines</span> <b>@ 3Megawatts</b> <span style="font-weight: 400;">each.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The U.S. in 2021 used 3,930 terawatt hours.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This would require 1,310,000,000 3Megawatt turbines.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Each at 500-600 feet in height needs 3 acres clearance in open areas or forested areas. Totaling 3,930,000,000 acres needed.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The U.S. Has Nearly 1.9 Billion Acres Of Land. (including lakes, ponds, rivers & streams)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If we tore up every building and road and dedicated it to just wind, we are short by 2,030,000,000 acres needed. If we filled the acres of land between wind turbines with solar, we would still fall short of our energy needs, which increase at about 2-4% per year.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The non-electrical power such as direct use of fossil fuels is not included, which calculates out to 4,584.22 terawatts of power.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So now we would need an additional 1.17 times more wind and solar to electrify the roads and fossil fuel dependent industries.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Which would be another 4,598,100,000 acres, to accomplish this task.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This means that we are currently 6,628,100,000 (Billions) acres short of being able to use renewables. This is assuming we left no room to live, travel, or produce crops or products.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This calculation assumes they, both solar and wind produce 24/7.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Neither can, with wind at an average of 28% annually and solar slightly less in overall expected production.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With those known's, we would need an additional 70% more land or 11,267,770,000 (billion) acres total. There are approximately 36 Billion acres for the entire planet Earth (Including all Oceans).</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, of the total of 13,167,770,000 acres needed to go Green, our 1.9billion acres in the U.S. can NEVER produce more than 6.93% of the 2021 energy use between all current electrical production and for fossil fuel conversion to green.</span></p>
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<p></p> National Geographic just came…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-05-28:4401701:Comment:2408092022-05-28T22:51:29.851ZPenny Grayhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/PennyGray
<p>National Geographic just came out with an article explaining why, if you're sleeping poorly, it's because of climate change. Critical thinking has become as rare as common sense. It's up to the people to educate themselves, but most won't. This is going to get very ugly.</p>
<p>National Geographic just came out with an article explaining why, if you're sleeping poorly, it's because of climate change. Critical thinking has become as rare as common sense. It's up to the people to educate themselves, but most won't. This is going to get very ugly.</p> We have predicted that for mo…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-05-28:4401701:Comment:2408062022-05-28T22:06:40.292ZMonique Aniel Thurstonhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/moniqueaniel
<p>We have predicted that for more than a decade now. I remember in an issue of the National Geographic a few years ago the following sentence ending a paragraph on wind power: " Wind power is the grid operator nightmare ," </p>
<p>Intelligence comes from Latin :" Intel Lego ",to discern, to read in between.</p>
<p>So we all know the equation : A corrupt politico/ business model brainwashes a voting group devoid of intelligence . </p>
<p>We have predicted that for more than a decade now. I remember in an issue of the National Geographic a few years ago the following sentence ending a paragraph on wind power: " Wind power is the grid operator nightmare ," </p>
<p>Intelligence comes from Latin :" Intel Lego ",to discern, to read in between.</p>
<p>So we all know the equation : A corrupt politico/ business model brainwashes a voting group devoid of intelligence . </p>