Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows

Re:Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, n... by Alupis on Thursday May 16, 2024 @07:39PM (#40384665)

California also experiences rolling blackouts each summer - and lately turns off the power when it's too hot, wind blows too hard, wind doesn't blow enough, etc.

It's incredibly unreliable for biggest state in the union. But... we can sure pick a couple ultra-rare events and say "see, wind works" when it in fact does not.

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Re:Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, n... by zer00eyz on Thursday May 16, 2024 @11:57PM (#40386246)

> rolling blackouts each summer

We haven't had a rolling blackout since the early 2000 and Enron.

What we do have is decades of PGE not doing any work to maintain or upgrade their grid. Our power company is so incompetent it has a death toll.

Texas gets something like 24 percent of its power from wind. IT has now updated its rules to force all renewables to be ride through sources (this will add cost but it isnt going to slow things down).

Go take a deep dive into the numbers, you might be shocked at what you find.

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