Denmark making a big investment on wind

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From the tweet...

The additional capacity should produce around 35-55 TWh/year, that's 100-160% of current national electricity consumption.

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1. From the Danish Energy Agency:

Our Responsibilities, Oil and Gas.

Unfortunately for people adoring and apologizing for this offshore oil and gas drilling hellhole, Denmark, they also maintain a database that shows how long this crap lasts before it needs replacement, under 20 years, under 18 years on average after I went through the data after an antinuke here said "big turbines last longer." (They don't, they're even crappier than the big ones.)

Master Data Register of Wind Turbines

A Commentary on Failure, Delusion and Faith: Danish Data on Big Wind Turbines and Their Lifetimes.

Probably this scheme is an attempt to subsidize an already useless industry that soaks up money and does nothing at all to address climate related issues.

Vestas losses top €1bn after Q4 costs hit

Vestas, and the rest of the fossil fuel supporting wind industry is bleeding money.

All of the wind companies in Europe and the US are bleeding money, because of the rise in commodity prices, since they are mass intensive and thus not even close to being sustainable.

It's 2023, half a century into cheering for the wind industry, trillions of dollars spent, for 7 Exajoules (as of 2021) on a planet where humanity is consuming 624 Exajoules, all 7 Exajoules dependent on back up by gas, oil and coal.

It's a great victory for advertising and marketing, but it's a disaster for humanity since it generates far more complacency and wishful thinking and denial than energy.

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2. Once again, jumping up and down DQIIIIIIII

One equation explains a lot - double the diameter of the blades and you triple the output of a windmill. That's the main reason older, smaller windmills bit the dust before their useful life comes to an end.

You only have data on when they are taken out of service, you don't have why and you don't have what happened to them. You claim they end up in landfills but any reasonable person looking at what a windmill is comprised of knows there a lot of valuable components that will get recycled.

I think you missed something though...

that's 100-160% of current national electricity consumption.

Demark obviously is planning ahead - they are building enough wind capacity to supply their electricity on low wind days and when they have a typical windy day - over supply their needs and will be exporting their excess (or using energy storage methods for when the wind stops blowing).

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3. Once again, Denmark is an oil and gas drilling hellhole.

I don't care about the destructive building of soon to rot toys to be cheered by people who don't give a shit about reliability or about future generations.

I care about climate change, a topic of complete indifference to antinukes.

All the fucking "percent talk" in the world will not change the fact that we hit 424 ppm of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere, despite Denmark building close to 10,000 wind turbines, over 3000 of which are already nonfunctional garbage.

They could build 3 nuclear reactors, let all that mass intensive wind junk rot easily become an electricity exporter.

But they don't, because they don't give a rat's ass about the environment, and they want to protect what they do export, oil and gas.