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May 29, 2009, 6:55 am
How to generate wind power when the wind doesn’t blow.
The global warming crowd constantly bleats that wind power is our salvation and to complete the analogy, that we should follow Denmark’s example like a bunch of sheep.
“Denmark’s wind generation industry already employs 9000 people,” said Australian Green leader Bob Brown, “will nicet (sic) 10% of electricity demand by 2000, and is growing at 20% per annum. It’s a major export earner.”
Not so fast. Turns out Denmark’s windmill miracle is more hot air than hot news. When the recalcitrant winds refuse to blow, the country draws its power from Sweden, Germany and Norway.
Uh-oh. Sweden and Germany generate their power with coal and nuclear.
Another uh-oh. Under the Kyoto Protocol, Denmark committed itself to a 29% reduction in green house gasses in the 2008-2012 period. Even with outsourcing their power production to other countries, the country’s 2006 emissions rose 1.7% above its base year emissions.
Of course, as you might expect, Danes pay the highest prices in all of Europe for their power.
This may not be scientific, but it looks like the only way this wind power thing is going to work is if Al Gore puckers up and blows.
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