Harnessing Wind Power

Exploring the power of wind. Wind turbines are just becoming popular here in Canada. I think there should be way more done to help the environment. By reducing greenhouse emissions.

More about the Wind Farm:
80 meters (262.467192 feet) high towers

Credits:
Kevin MacLeod
Site URL: http://incompetech.com/m/c/royalty-free/
Song Title: Heroic Age / Griphop
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Harnessing Wind Power
Harnessing Wind Power
Harnessing Wind Power
Harnessing Wind Power

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[d2099y]

Fuel from 50 years of nuclear reactor operation fits in a single football field, amounting to 77,000 tons (1,540 tons per year). We discard 179,000 tons of batteries per year in the United States and they contain toxic heavy metals. I know Germany is spending billions of dollars on energy storage technology research but this will probably just be a huge battery. Is it possible that for renewables to be efficient enough they will be producing just as much waste as nuclear?

[GodlessManitoban]

@d2099y

I am not sure. I guess only time will tell.

The power produced at wind farms here is added to a grid from hydro electric generation. As far as I know.

[d2099y]

@GodlessManitoban Thanks for your quick response. You don't happen to know how often the small batteries need to be replaced in these wind turbines do you? Thanks for your video by the way.

[GodlessManitoban]

@d2099y

No sorry I don't.

You're welcome.

[Themyarhills]

This is utterly horrible.Scotland is currently being carpeted in 495ft turbines.They are symbols of greedy energy companies.The largest one in Europe nearly completed by SSE with 152 of these monsters destroying wild land.

[GodlessManitoban]

@Themyarhills

So what's better, nuclear power or wind power?

[d2099y]

@lukeseti NZ is a small country but wind farms require 300 times more land than conventional power plants to produce the same amount of electricity and there are paramters around each turbine that takes extra space. But maybe NZ is an example of where renewables might work with low populations? Places like China & India are a different story. India has announced it is building a thorium reactor by 2020 which can't melt down & is safe from earthquake, tsuanami, terrorists or human error.

[77tubuck]

@lukeseti I don't care if New Zealand goes nuclear but here in Canada we can't get all our power from wind because of our large population and industry. I am not against wind power if the turbines are place away from peoples homes. Secondly our nuclear reactors are surrounded by a two meter concrete wall strong enough to withstand a jet crashing into them.

[lukeseti]

@77tubuck Also, BTW, out of interest, what is the name of this wind farm? I see it is in Canada.

[lukeseti]

@77tubuck Problem with Nuclear in New Zealand is that we are one of most seismically active regions in the world, literally thousands of faults scatter our countryside, couple that with a small population and we've never really thought about building a reactor. We've learned to 'live without them', so to speak.

Also your statement about a 747 brings back a funny scene from the TV show Boston Legal where the protagonist ridicules opposing counsel by mocking their NPP designs.

[77tubuck]

@lukeseti I am not sure what is happening in New Zealand but here in Canada the wind mills that the Libs are building will not generate a small fraction of what nuclear generates. Believe me the Libs (or Republican as they are called in US) are not going to get rid of nuclear. Secondly our power plants are designed to with stand a 747 crashing into them. Finally a CANDU reactor has never had a nuclear meltdown.

[lukeseti]

@77tubuck Yeah, damn those liberals, trying to protect us from nuclear fallout and carcinogenic coal ash. Well, 2011 was the year Renewables overtook Nuclear in the US.

And, those nuclear reactors are the safest in the world, until there's a bomb, a jetliner, earthquake, tsunami, flood, etc.

I'm glad I live in nuclear free New Zealand.

[77tubuck]

@lukeseti There is no study because it has never been studied and even if it had it would just reflect the bias of the politicians. There is no study because the Libs are just pushing things through without a care for people health. Why can't they find an area away from people homes for there turbines? People are reporting negative effect from wind turbines therefore there are negative health affects to wind. Secondly our nuclear power plants are the safest in the world.

[lukeseti]

@77tubuck There is no scientific standing for the idea that people are getting sick from wind turbines, and even if they were, So what? Some people are also affected by mercury, and toxic dust emissions from coal and oil plants. Some people are affected by radiation from nuclear catastrophe's. Oh wait, I think that's everyone. In this case, wind is the least objectionable energy source. If you don't like them, move away. NIMBYism has taken too much of a toll on this country.

[77tubuck]

@lukeseti It dose not matter if I can build my own nuclear power plant. That is a red herring fallacy. The fact is that these wind turbines are making people sick. Yes some people are not affected by wind turbines but some are. It is the same thing with sea sickness. Just because some people are not effected does not mean everyone is not effected.