Windturbines: the whole truth.
IX1. Are those who make propaganda for windturbines guilty of deceiving the public by conceiling their disadvantages?
It is quite something to accuse people or institutions that recommend the construction of windturbines of deceiving the public! For we may talk of real deceit only if wrong or misleading arguments are purposefully used for recommending the constructions of windturbines or windfarms. There is certainly imposture if all serious disadvantages are being consciously suppressed.
Before pronouncing such a severe judgment, "deceit", we will have to distinguish between those people or institutions that pronounce their opinion through ignorance and those people and institutions, the "propagandists", that surely do know what they are talking about, but often obviously have a direct interest in the construction of windturbines and giving wrong information about the subject. Such personal interest is normally easy to recognize as being a financial connection, a personal job or a political inclination. It is therefore sad that, especially governmental institutions, very rarely, or never, ask and publish the opinion of "neutral" advisers on wind energy. The government has never, for example, asked or wanted to hear an opinion on windturbines from experts that have no interest at all in their construction, or not. Such people are purposefully silenced. Examples of this most indecent behaviour by the government and the various government institutions are many and shameful.
All those with an interest in the construction of windturbines, be it a personal, financial or political interest, will of course manipulate the emotions of the layman by telling the beautiful story about how wonderful it is that without using fuel, we may produce electricity from "clean and sustainable" resources. All limitations and very serious disadvantages are purposefully concealed. The old jewish proverb can be wisely applied to such behaviour: "A half-truth is a whole lie."
What exactly is hidden by the "propagandists in their own interest" may have become clear from the information in the preceding pages:
- That the very small power so produced varies uncontrollably and very sharply hundreds of times per year between maximum and zero output. To state that the power "varies somewhat" because of the variation of the wind force amounts to purposefully hiding the whole and much more unfortunate truth.
- The innovation of windturbines will never be able to bring any improvement in this behaviour as it is determined completely by a law of nature.
- Because of this inconsistent behaviour the production factor can only be low.
- As another consequence of this behaviour of windturbines, the costs per generated kWh will be and will remain high, even more so because the kWh's that are the product delivered by the windturbines, are of a bad and unreliable quality and only available during unpredictable periods, and hence they are unfit for individual consumers. That is why it is misleading to compare the cost of unreliably produced "wind-kWh's" with the cost of almost completely reliably produced "conventional kWh's".
- The jerks in the power of a great amount of windturbines, whether on- or offshore, can become a great danger for the safety of the electricity grid. Compensation for these sways by upward or downward adjustment of conventional plants is only possible to a certain extent. And, if the limit is exceeded, this would lead to a great mechanical risk for the turbines of the conventional plants. Apart from the fact that those plants would then operate with a lower efficiency because of being forced to adjust their output, and consequently their CO2 emissions per produced kWh would be considerably higher then when operating with a constant power.
- The more and the bigger the windturbines that are built, the larger their share in the power jerks between maximum at wind force B-6 or more and zero by wind force B3 or less. Just have a look at the wind force forecast in the newspapers or on television!
And these are certainly not all the concealed disadvantages that result from the application of wind energy.
All propagandists, and certainly also the government and the so-called "institutions that offer information on windturbines" or "consultative institutions" are well aware of these disadvantages that we mention but keep silent about them. That is why the answer to the question whether this can be judged as purposeful deceit must be answered wholeheartedly with a YES.
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