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Monday, 10 March 2025
OUR EXPENSIVE AND UNCERTAIN ELECTRIC GRID
As more renewable energy is added to the grid so the costs increase and the reliability gets less. This new video by Paul Burgess explains what is happening:
In Britain they used to say don’t mention the war, nowadays the unspoken injunction appears to be don’t mention wind droughts. Why not? I am a retired dairy farmer with an agricultural science degree and 60 years of experience in a wide range of research projects in health and welfare policy and the history and philosophy of science. Lately I have become a student of wind droughts, which I discovered on Jo Nova’s climate blog when she hosted comments about the work of Anton Lang and Paul Miskell. They checked the continuous record of wind power generation collected by our Energy Marketing Authority and found periods up to three days in duration when there was next to no wind power generated across the whole of SE Australia, when high pressure lingered. Your Dunkelflautes last for weeks on occasion although it seems they only came to notice in June 2021. Mariners and millers much have known about them for centuries but the meteorologists didn’t warn anyone and the planners who decided to subsidise and mandate wind power apparently didn’t check the reliability of the wind supply. Consequently trillions have been spent worldwide to get more expensive and less reliable power with massive damage to the environment. Has there been a worse public policy blunder in peacetime history? This information has been available for years from The Energy Realists of Australia, how come it is not common knowledge among climate and energy realists worldwide? List of briefing notes - Flickerpower
In Britain they used to say don’t mention the war, nowadays the unspoken injunction appears to be don’t mention wind droughts. Why not?
ReplyDeleteI am a retired dairy farmer with an agricultural science degree and 60 years of experience in a wide range of research projects in health and welfare policy and the history and philosophy of science.
Lately I have become a student of wind droughts, which I discovered on Jo Nova’s climate blog when she hosted comments about the work of Anton Lang and Paul Miskell. They checked the continuous record of wind power generation collected by our Energy Marketing Authority and found periods up to three days in duration when there was next to no wind power generated across the whole of SE Australia, when high pressure lingered.
Your Dunkelflautes last for weeks on occasion although it seems they only came to notice in June 2021. Mariners and millers much have known about them for centuries but the meteorologists didn’t warn anyone and the planners who decided to subsidise and mandate wind power apparently didn’t check the reliability of the wind supply.
Consequently trillions have been spent worldwide to get more expensive and less reliable power with massive damage to the environment. Has there been a worse public policy blunder in peacetime history?
This information has been available for years from The Energy Realists of Australia, how come it is not common knowledge among climate and energy realists worldwide?
List of briefing notes - Flickerpower
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/the-late-discovery-of-wind-droughts
https://open.substack.com/pub/rafechampion/p/we-have-to-talk-about-wind-droughts
www.flickerpower.com/images/RAFE_CHAMPION_CAN_THE_US_ESCAPETHE_WIND_DROUGHT_TRAP_The_Spectator_Australia.pdf
I hope these links are alive,
ReplyDeletehttps://www.flickerpower.com/index.php/search/categories/general/list-of-briefing-notes
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/the-late-discovery-of-wind-droughts