That's a pretty cool clip. These giant turbines are wasteful though. 7% of the power is lost in transmission. We have home windmill installers doing home windmills in Kansas. Click to see on our channel. I have three home windmill systems installed in Kansas now. It's a great state for wind power and people are saving on their home electric by putting in home windmills in Kansas.
Smoky Hills Wind Farm is still under construction. Even when everything is finished and tested, in a large wind farm there is a rotating maintenance schedule so a few turbines will be down at a given time, but probably not as many as you see in this video, which was shot while the wind farm was very new.
I remotely run this windfarm at night. This park is in 2 partitions SHI and SHII and it is a process to get everything up. Also depending on market prices, we do not also run at full capacity, due to the fact that it can actually cost us money to produce. So you will not always be seeing 100% of the park running. Plus if winds are low, the computers read this and put the turbine into pause to let it rest. It is stressful and will lessen the life of the turbine to let it run full cap 24/7.
From what I understand, you can't economically save excess generated electricity. So do these wind farms help with the base load or the peak load? The peak load is what is so expensive on hot summer days, and yet that's not necessarily when the wind is the strongest. In other words, if we were to produce the vast majority of electricity from wind mills, wouldn't we need a lot of peak load plants for when the wind dies down?
Not that I really know, this is my guess. When the wind is available, it will supply peak load, when not available, natural gas fuel peak power plant will be fired up. The more we plan to use wind, the more coal and natural gas there will be for future generations. In the mean time we could be working in viable storage solutions.
3. We are debating the pro's and con's of wind farms here on youtube precisely because there is NO RELIABLE DATA published out there. The only "data" are either environmental advocacy speculations or "white papers" from wind turbine manufacturers. Let's have some real numbers to debate, please.
4. There's acres of decrepit solar plants in California because it turned out not to be economical to repair them. Let's learn from history, not just project our environmental hopes.
1. It cost certain amount of BTU in energy terms to build each wind turbine. Any analysis should start with how long it takes to get that energy back.
2. Even if there were economical means of storing excess electricity, it may be far cheaper to just crank up our nuclear plants and split the output to base load and peak load than to build wind farms.
A certain amount of energy is required to build any electrical power plant. Also there is an energy input to produce the fuel for coal, nuclear, an Natural gas power plants. Cost that wind, solar thermal, and photovoltaic. Though I'm not promoting photovoltaic. There is a value to less pollution and fuel conservation.
Windmills: new source of power for today to counter rising electric rates. Rely on it.
lordbemylight 5 months ago
That's a pretty cool clip. These giant turbines are wasteful though. 7% of the power is lost in transmission. We have home windmill installers doing home windmills in Kansas. Click to see on our channel. I have three home windmill systems installed in Kansas now. It's a great state for wind power and people are saving on their home electric by putting in home windmills in Kansas.
HomeWindTurbines7 1 year ago
Yes, this is why diversity is very important when developing our infrastructure.
joudheus 2 years ago
why do some turn and not others? are they down for matinence or something?
creamyfilling102 3 years ago
If its a new site they may be down for problems, it takes about a year to get all of the bugs worked out.
noaa555 3 years ago
Smoky Hills Wind Farm is still under construction. Even when everything is finished and tested, in a large wind farm there is a rotating maintenance schedule so a few turbines will be down at a given time, but probably not as many as you see in this video, which was shot while the wind farm was very new.
Teratornis 3 years ago
I remotely run this windfarm at night. This park is in 2 partitions SHI and SHII and it is a process to get everything up. Also depending on market prices, we do not also run at full capacity, due to the fact that it can actually cost us money to produce. So you will not always be seeing 100% of the park running. Plus if winds are low, the computers read this and put the turbine into pause to let it rest. It is stressful and will lessen the life of the turbine to let it run full cap 24/7.
joudheus 2 years ago
From what I understand, you can't economically save excess generated electricity. So do these wind farms help with the base load or the peak load? The peak load is what is so expensive on hot summer days, and yet that's not necessarily when the wind is the strongest. In other words, if we were to produce the vast majority of electricity from wind mills, wouldn't we need a lot of peak load plants for when the wind dies down?
emineid 2 years ago
Not that I really know, this is my guess. When the wind is available, it will supply peak load, when not available, natural gas fuel peak power plant will be fired up. The more we plan to use wind, the more coal and natural gas there will be for future generations. In the mean time we could be working in viable storage solutions.
westkan 2 years ago
3. We are debating the pro's and con's of wind farms here on youtube precisely because there is NO RELIABLE DATA published out there. The only "data" are either environmental advocacy speculations or "white papers" from wind turbine manufacturers. Let's have some real numbers to debate, please.
4. There's acres of decrepit solar plants in California because it turned out not to be economical to repair them. Let's learn from history, not just project our environmental hopes.
emineid 2 years ago
1. It cost certain amount of BTU in energy terms to build each wind turbine. Any analysis should start with how long it takes to get that energy back.
2. Even if there were economical means of storing excess electricity, it may be far cheaper to just crank up our nuclear plants and split the output to base load and peak load than to build wind farms.
emineid 2 years ago
A certain amount of energy is required to build any electrical power plant. Also there is an energy input to produce the fuel for coal, nuclear, an Natural gas power plants. Cost that wind, solar thermal, and photovoltaic. Though I'm not promoting photovoltaic. There is a value to less pollution and fuel conservation.
westkan 2 years ago
Smoky Hills Wind Farm. Phase I is operational: 56 Vestas V80 1.8 MW wind turbines. Phase II is under construction: 99 GE Energy 1.5 MW wind turbines.
Teratornis 3 years ago
5 months ago was when we opened Phase II. We started production towards the end of feb.
joudheus 2 years ago
I drove that section of road for years going to Hays from Manhattan. The turbines really add to the drive!!
whittyjane 3 years ago