Wind generation

[DCon]

Let me guess, Denmark doesn't have much of a professional protest class so things can get done without years of battling hordes of social, emotional and intellectual failures?

Meanwhile, back in Ireland

The Campaign for Responsible Engagement with Wind Energy — or CREWE — has been set up to co-ordinate opposition on environmental and health grounds.

And the group has backed a Seanad bid to clamp down on where the spinning chargers can take root.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...t-hot-air.html

[DCon]

Good old Seanad

But the Labour heritage spokesman predicted: “Lots of these developments are going to be appealed all the way through Bord Pleanala. I’m not opposed to wind energy, but there is evidence of health and noise effects of turbines.”

http://ramblingsdc.net/Australia/WindProblems.html

[Baron von Biffo]

Meanwhile, back in Ireland

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...t-hot-air.html

I refer the honourable member to the thread I started some time ago.

http://www.politicalworld.org/showthread.php?t=11580

They're like athletes foot - an unsightly irritant that's no use for anything but is difficult to get rid of.

[TotalMayhem]

In Denmark many wind farms are run by local co-ops.

Very Un-Irish

Indeed, they have tried that on Inis Meáin... well, the co-op "collapsed in controversy" and the turbines were never used again.

[Count Bobulescu]

There's enough wind energy to power the planet 100 times over.

At the moment, wind power supplies about 4.1 percent of electric power in the United States. Still a bit player. Yet there’s a whole lot of untapped wind left in the world. Wind whipping through the Great Plains. Wind gusting off the shores. Wind circulating high up in the sky. So what would happen if we tried to harvest all of that wind?

We’d have enough energy to power the world. At least in theory. A new study published this week in Nature Climate Change finds that there’s enough wind potential both on the Earth’s surface and up in the atmosphere to power human civilization 100 times over. Right now, humans use about 18 terawatts of power worldwide. And, technically, the study found, we could extract about 400 terawatts of wind power from the Earth’s surface and 1,800 terawatts of power from the upper atmosphere.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-worlds-needs/

[Count Bobulescu]

Here’s another more practical assessment.

Wind energy could provide up to half the world's power supply with little environmental impact, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Delaware and Stanford University.

The study debunks previous assessments that suggested wind wouldn't be a feasible way to power much of the world's grid due to environmental and power output concerns. According to the University of Delaware's Cristina Archer, about 4 million turbines could provide the world with 7.5 terawatts of energy annually, about half of the estimated power necessary to run earth's power grids in 2030.

"We've seen some papers out there that have been somewhat annoying or confusing because they had very low estimates of the total potential of wind energy," Archer says. "We decided to run our own model and we found wind is very abundant—we feel very strong these previous studies were incorrect

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http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...-energy-demand

[DCon]

Somebody told Enda to say he favours Wind Energy development

The Taoiseach says the development of wind energy off the Atlantic coast holds huge potential for developing the Irish economy.

Speaking in Brussels, Enda Kenny said plans are well advanced to launch an integrated marine strategy to take full advantage of Ireland’s off-shore resources.

It’s an initiative which will be watched closely, both in terms of where infrastructure will be located, and what opportunities exist for facilities such as Killybegs port and Donegal Airport to win transport and servicing contracts.

http://www.highlandradio.com/2012/10...-the-atlantic/

[DCon]

Living close to Industrial wind turbines may damage your health.

“Participants living near industrial wind turbines had worse sleep, as evidenced by significantly greater mean PSQI and ESS scores,” the researchers, Michael Nissenbaum, Jeffery Aramini and Chris Hanning, found.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ene...cientists.html