[theluckycountry]

It’s Okay to Notice When Solar and Wind Fail
Lessons from Spain’s Blackout
https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/ener ... -wind-fail

As an aside, Spain was the nation that went all in Solar Thermal back in the early 2000's. It was a total failure and we don't hear about Thermal anymore do we. It will be the same with Wind in another decade. Just another boondoggle stockmarket ripoff like the EV was.

Urgent reforms in Europe needed to revive wind power growth by 2030
Revive as in it's DEAD.
https://strategicenergy.eu/urgent-refor ... h-by-2030/

Investors Learn Brutal Lesson From Sweden’s Wind Farm Woes
Yes, you were ripped off. Just like everyone that invested in the EV bubble.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n the years since the 179 turbines started spinning, operator Markbygden Ett AB has racked up hundreds of millions of euros in losses and suffered a heavy reputational blow. That traces back to a critical misstep: signing a 19-year contract known as a power purchase agreement that included unrealistic expectations about how much electricity the farm would produce around the clock... Russia’s invasion of Ukraine compounded the problem.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '[')b]It’s Okay to Notice When Solar and Wind Fail
Lessons from Spain’s Blackout
https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/ener ... -wind-fail

[theluckycountry]

Closer to home perhaps...

Coal the new Bridge fuel
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.').. NERC's summer reliability assessment, published on May 18, cited the 15-state Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) as the regional grid most likely to see a meltdown this summer. NERC’s warning proved to be prescient. On May 25, more than 100,000 customers in and around New Orleans lost power for most of the day when electricity demand exceeded supply, despite an emergency order from the Department of Energy several days earlier to keep a 1,560 megawatt coal plant in Michigan on-line that was slated for closure by the end of May. ERCOT, the Texas grid operator, has also warned of possible outages this summer due to potential low solar and wind energy availability during peak demand.

a recent study by the Berkeley National Laboratory found that data centers consumed 4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023 but will account for 12% of power demand by 2028.

At the same time, construction of new base-load power plants—natural gas, nuclear, and coal—has plummeted. Driven by federal, state, and local tax incentives, wind and solar have accounted for the lion’s share of new installed generation in recent years. The problem, of course, is that these power sources are intermittent, which is why New Orleans lost electricity in May and why the Iberian Peninsula suffered a blackout in April.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'C')loser to home perhaps...

Coal the new Bridge fuel
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.').. NERC's summer reliability assessment, published on May 18, cited the 15-state Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) as the regional grid most likely to see a meltdown this summer. NERC’s warning proved to be prescient. On May 25, more than 100,000 customers in and around New Orleans lost power for most of the day when electricity demand exceeded supply, despite an emergency order from the Department of Energy several days earlier to keep a 1,560 megawatt coal plant in Michigan on-line that was slated for closure by the end of May. ERCOT, the Texas grid operator, has also warned of possible outages this summer due to potential low solar and wind energy availability during peak demand.

a recent study by the Berkeley National Laboratory found that data centers consumed 4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023 but will account for 12% of power demand by 2028.

At the same time, construction of new base-load power plants—natural gas, nuclear, and coal—has plummeted. Driven by federal, state, and local tax incentives, wind and solar have accounted for the lion’s share of new installed generation in recent years. The problem, of course, is that these power sources are intermittent, which is why New Orleans lost electricity in May and why the Iberian Peninsula suffered a blackout in April.

[theluckycountry]

'Wind theft': The mysterious effect plaguing wind farms https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2025 ... wind-theft
Just one more unintended consequence plaguing these money wasters

Denmark reboots failed offshore wind tender with subsidy sweetener
Denmark sweetens terms of auction round after disastrous December tender in which developers staged no-show. https://www.rechargenews.com/policy/den ... ott=z1qdGZ
Throw More money at it, that'll change the laws of physics

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '[')b]'Wind theft': The mysterious effect plaguing wind farms https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2025 ... wind-theft
Just one more unintended consequence plaguing these money wasters

[theluckycountry]

Now now adam, don't feel disgruntled. Your loss is another person's win, remember that.

Majority of pension funds have net zero commitment...
In other words they are heavily invested in wind farms and the like. The very companies now going bust!

Kiwi Pension Fund Loses $50 Million in Ogin Ducted Turbine Fiasco
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '2')017- Ogin’s design arrived in a blaze of high-powered hype across the tech press in 2008. DOE’s Arpa, and MIT’s Technology Review swooned over what was, once again, supposed to be breathtaking new technology. Backed by big name venture capital company Kleiner Perkins, FloDesign-Ogin raised untold millions to develop a ducted wind turbine, including investments from New Zealand and Alberta sovereign wealth funds.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '
')Kiwi Pension Fund Loses $50 Million in Ogin Ducted Turbine Fiasco
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '2')017- Ogin’s design arrived in a blaze of high-powered hype across the tech press in 2008. DOE’s Arpa, and MIT’s Technology Review swooned over what was, once again, supposed to be breathtaking new technology. Backed by big name venture capital company Kleiner Perkins, FloDesign-Ogin raised untold millions to develop a ducted wind turbine, including investments from New Zealand and Alberta sovereign wealth funds.

[theluckycountry]

The mistake you make adam is you believe because you had a successful working career you will enjoy a successful retirement. That because you knew a lot about your chosen field when working as a tax donkey you know a lot about how the world works outside of that. You are Wrong.

I worked for myself, and only half the hours a wage slave did so I had endless hours to research. Beginning in 2005 I was all over the web learning the pitfalls of modern life. I knew about the Great Recession a year and more before it happened, many people predicted it and many big insiders were selling out! Reserve bank Governors all over the world were retiring, getting out so they wouldn't be blamed. I saw the housing fall and slump occur just as predicted and bought into a lot of things as Covid lockdowns were kicking off because I knew there would be scarcity and that prices would go through the roof.

I'm not especially savvy on many of these subjects but one doesn't have to be. All you need is an open mind and a good bullshit detector. All the truth is out there, though it's getting harder and harder to search it up on swamp creatures like google. You just wait adam, you'll see those paper/digital assets you have pinned your hopes on collapse because hardly anyone is getting out of this with the shirt still on their back. It's just common sense really, we have untold trillions of promises to pay people in the decades to come and it's mostly held in entities that are already vastly overpriced and ready to collapse.

All the promises were built on Debt, the public companies are built on debt, National governments built on debt. And now the cheap energy is gone there is nothing to repay the debt let alone fuel another great expansion like after WWII. As I have pointed out here before the majority of companies in America are held in private hands and those elites will do fine just like they have always done in ages past. The little pleb in his little house though is loaded up with garbage investments and debts and bills that never stop coming. Debt is toxic adam, you should have retired your debts long ago. All of them.

Every generation gets duded in retirement but every 80~100 years there is a major reset, a real duding that leaves millions homeless and hungry. We're on the brink of that so get ready. Don't worry, you'll have plenty of company, most people in your town will probably be suffering the same poverty just like in those poor southern towns. Poverty is relative isn't it. If you grew up eating steak and buying nice cloths and now you're eating chicken and ground beef, buying you cloths from one of those cheap chain stores, you've already lost ground haven't you. Where did your cloths come from adam? Your shoes? Target? Walmart? It's all junk-wear. Good shoes cost around 100~$150, and upwards for nice boots. Good shirts $30 and more. Those are US prices. Poverty is relative.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'T')he mistake you make adam is you believe because you had a successful working career you will enjoy a successful retirement. That because you knew a lot about your chosen field when working as a tax donkey you know a lot about how the world works outside of that. You are Wrong.

[theluckycountry]

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '[')img]https://www.activenews.ro/images/articole/180368.jpg[/img]

[theluckycountry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') recent study published in Energy, a peer-reviewed energy and engineering journal, found that—after accounting for backup, energy storage and associated indirect costs—solar power costs skyrocket from US$36 per megawatt hour (MWh) to as high as US$1,548 and wind generation costs increase from US$40 to up to US$504 per MWh.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') recent study published in Energy, a peer-reviewed energy and engineering journal, found that—after accounting for backup, energy storage and associated indirect costs—solar power costs skyrocket from US$36 per megawatt hour (MWh) to as high as US$1,548 and wind generation costs increase from US$40 to up to US$504 per MWh.

[theluckycountry]

Let's get slightly technical

The Boom and Bust Cycles of Wind Energy

As of 2024, wind accounts for 10% of US energy generation, comprising a larger share in states like Texas, where the wind resource is particularly great. Over a third of the world’s wind generating capacity, however, is located in China whose expansive wind farms collectively generate 886 TWh annually.



$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here was one company in particular that capitalized on the innovations that poured into the wind industry: the Jacobs Wind Electric Company. Two Montana-based brothers, Marcellus and Joseph Jacobs, decided to build a wind turbine on their farm, which previously relied on gasoline generators for electricity. Refueling would cost them a three-day journey to the nearest town, so they opted to see if they could generate electricity from the wind.

The Jacobs brothers ultimately arrived at a three-blade turbine model, not unlike the kind commonly built today, and the product took small-town America by storm. What started with their neighbors asking them to install turbines on their lots ended up growing into a thriving business which, by the time the company ceased operations in 1956, had distributed 20,000 units all across the United States.

Wind became the heart of a small, but growing movement of decentralized energy generation in America. However, this would soon come to an end as centralized power provision finally made its way across the country. The Rural Electrification Administration was inaugurated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration in 1936 to bring grid power to rural areas once and for all. However, as Brandon Owens notes in his excellent The Wind Power Story, “as a precondition for transmission interconnection, farms with wind turbines were required to destroy them.”

[theluckycountry]

Time for a bike ride, the twisties are calling, Harleys need not apply



This is the section I'm heading for, newly repaved, beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-VHtJtEhs

[AdamB]

[quote="theluckycountry"]Time for a bike ride, the twisties are calling, Harleys need not apply


This is Tail of the Dragon. Squids who confuse displacement with riding talent need not apply.



Australians are banned from this one, it is above the altitude at which they can breath. They just don't have the continent for it, or the cajones.

Run back to your little beginner roads, don't forget to stay at the speed limit of the kangaroo you are riding.

[theluckycountry]

if only kub was still here to lead you along eh adam.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', 'i')f only kub was still here to lead you along eh adam.

[theluckycountry]

Sorry adam, that last pic was a bit rude of me wasn't it
I'm sure you never had your whole face up there, just your nose eh.