Wind turbines: the whole truth.

V1.  The silly statement:

"It powers so many households"

For various reasons this is a silly statement.

  1. The only agreed measurement unit for delivered electricity is the kilowatt-hour. Imagine you receive an invoice for your own consumption stating that it is a certain fraction "of the delivery to an average household". Would you not think somebody had gone out of their mind?
  2. All the electricity produced by Wind turbines simply flows into the general electricity grid and certainly not only to households, but also to thousands of other consumers. Nobody, even if they would live right next to the Wind turbines, would get their current straight from the turbines through their plugs, but simply electric current, 99% of which comes from power plants.
  3. This graph demonstrates the absolute silliness of the statement "It powers so many households"

    Electricity consumptiom per capita and country.
    For a complete graph of worldwide yearly electricity consumption per capita, please visit:
    Worldwide electricty consumption per capita.

And it is just as well that is so, because if not, one would not get any current at all from those Wind turbines for many days per year as they would happen to be motionless. The term "so many households" is nothing but an expression for impressing the public with a big and striking number. For a question on the effective yield of a wind turbine, one should always demand the data expressed in kWh. You also need to ask for a graph of the produced power, in kilowatts, through the year, so as to get an idea of the "reliability" of delivery. The supplier will not be too grateful for such an enquiry.


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