Wind Mines

Hi and thanks very much for clicking on this. We may have met online or this has been referred to you or you found it in a search for the future of wind turbine tech. Either way, you are already 100% a champion just for clicking on it. We all care about life on the planet and sometimes we get duped by profiteers trying to sell miracle cures. To do that they use true science but just not all the truthful science. It’s no big secret that they do this so what I’ve put together below is just a simple single observation of science that has been omitted from the wind turbine promotions. Please be aware that there is no real-life data for this scenario just yet but there are laws of physics and a little maths that hopefully shows you that studies need to be done to answer this question. After all, wind turbines are sold on the premise that they will cool the planet by reducing the amount of coal needing to be burned. This asks if the impact on the environment by retarding the natural convection cycles that regulate local surface temperatures is greater than the impact of the coal equivalent on the temperature of the region. Are wind turbines worse than coal for our planet?

Funding for such a study is very unlikely to come from governments, universities or companies who may see the result as threatening the profits they hope to make through their investment in the technology. So if you’re passionate about the truth of wind turbines then the funding will have to come from people or companies that are invested more in the truth rather than the profits from the turbines.

If the result shows that wind turbines are worse than coal then you will win, we all win. There will be NO FINANCIAL reward or profit but the turbines may be removed and the planet may then be a much nicer place for our children without a horizon full of aging turbines, wasting away and causing more harm than good. Do you see how hard this will be? Finding out the truth and making a difference without being able to offer a $$ profit is hard but it may be the only way. If we wait on this it’s only gonna be a more expensive clean up operation than it already will be.

Did you ask for the maths or physics workings? Below is a simple essay that covers the basics.

OK, when looking at a wind generator it’s only 3 little blades innocently twirling in a great big empty sky and our intuition and assumptions may not see all the science of it. So here’s a different way of looking at the wind generators as miners or harvesters of wind energy.

What I’m about to write is hard enough to write let alone for it to be immediately understood by a reader. You will either get it immediately or the thought of it might linger and the penny may drop sometime in the future. It will either seem to be completely 2019 bat poop tin hat crazy or just plain old 2018 bat poop boring. It’s taken me years to simplify it all down into something simple so I hope it works. There is some maths for it but I’ll not bore you with that in this article. I can provide it on request if want to see more. This is just a POC article.

Either way, I’ll try to convey some science that I’ve not heard discussed anywhere regarding wind farms and trust me this is a very non-intuitive science to discuss so you may not have heard about it either. It is so non-intuitive that it will be a bit like Nick Copernicus trying to tell the world that we are just a tiny ball of snot orbiting the sun when everyone else believes that we are at the centre of the universe with everything orbiting around us like a merry go round or something. Trust me that’s exactly how the night sky looks intuitively.

It may not be immediately obvious so I won’t be offended if you think it’s completely bananas as one day the penny may drop and the non-intuitive aspect of this will present itself when you look at an image of just how many wind energy electricity generators are extracting energy from the wind. I don’t have any images and I don’t want to breach any silly copyright legal eagles. I actually like wind turbines and see their value in highly isolated places where one or two would be efficient and great but fields full of these things are on a completely different scale.

My apologies from here on ( wind mine = wind farm ). Farming is about putting energy into a system to produce a primary product whereas mining is about putting energy into a system to extract a natural resource. It may be petty but it is appropriate, especially for corporate and mining laws. Think of the wind as like a natural resource, like water from a river.

We cannot see wind or heat. We can see its effects but we don’t really see what it is doing or how fast it’s doing it or how important its job is. So as far as most of us can see, all we see is wind pushing fans around so extracting energy from the wind to turn it into electricity seems harmless and it looks free. We learn in primary school that hot land makes hot air cells that rise up as the cool wind comes in to replace it. That’s about where the science of wind lessons end in school. \

Maybe we learn a little about wind erosion or how the wind and pressure cells make rain as it gets pushed up a mountain side but we don’t really follow the energy of that system in any meaningful way until we learn some physics of the systems, say at university. Physics that had it been known by more folks might have had more people asking a few special questions about energy conservation laws long before we started treating wind farms like some miracle cure that will save the planet from the horrific climate change events by extracting an ever-increasing amount of wind energy from the wind and turning into electricity. The electricity from cool wind is turned into heat via resistance while running fridges, aircon, heaters, kettles, everything.

According to the promotional science after the costs of installing, maintaining and replacing them when they die, the devices provide all that energy absolutely 100% free and that extracting it has absolutely no impact on the local environment. It was like water in Australia’s Murray Darling, or Africa’s Nile with fully abundant water forever, until our overconsumption affected that intuitive belief of perpetuity and so tariffs and management were put in place. Nothing is free.

“But this is only wind” you might say. “ It’s nothing like water and we can very clearly see that extracting energy from it is not affecting anything environmentally. Maybe a few dead birds but that’s an acceptable cost for saving the planet” Hmm, yes clearly and whales too. Not being able to immediately see a problem has often bitten us in the backside. As I say, this is really not intuitive but it’s vital information we need to study.

It seems obvious to almost everyone now that you don’t just dump toxic waste into the river from which others must drink but it wasn’t intuitively obvious to anyone until enough damage and death was being reported and even then, laws needed to put in place to properly manage our waste because some businesses just don’t care about anything but profits despite how much they might say so. Sadly people and industries still practice it because it’s convenient and improves profits. The damage and death may not affect you immediately but indirectly it does. That’s obvious, right?

If I pull the maths out now, I might confuse and lose you so let’s look at some words of physics. The law of conservation of energy is pretty simple when applied to air. Hot air rises and cool air comes in, then that cool air heats up and rises and more cool air comes in and then that cool air heats up and rises and so on and so forth. The cool wind speed and energy are relative to the size/volume and force of the cell of hot air rising. The bigger and hotter the cell rises, the stronger the cool wind. - ( What is going on here is that heat is being transported away from the hot surface and up into the atmosphere where some of it lingers in the air and some gets lost to outer space ). Consider that for a moment. Lost to space. Regulated.

Heat is being transported away from the hot surface. The rate at which it can do this is determined by the rate of cool wind coming in to replace the hot air rising. If we retard the rate of cool wind coming in then what else are we retarding? The hot air rising. How would having the hot air on the surface longer affect the environment? Apply it to land or on water systems and both flora and fauna are impacted.

These wind mining installations retard nature’s own cooling system. What happens? The hot cells linger longer, they keep things hotter longer, more evaporation occurs and the cells get bigger without noticing these increments immediately so we don’t see the long-term effect immediately. Much like dumping toxic wastes in the river and plastics in our oceans. Out of sight, out of mind until someone shows us the clear and present danger. Perhaps also like other experimental things untested for their long-term detriments before proper examination of their effects before we roll them out on a global scale. Sad that we panic and do this.

The danger of the bigger hot cells is long-term heat stress on the land and the life on it. Larger systems mean bigger localised weather cells. More rains, bigger winds to compensate and all of the devastations described in the climate change debate. The wind mines may help reduce Co2 emissions and Co2 does convert light energy to heat so there is a measurable effect on the climate from this but the amount of this effect compared to the localised changes of climate due to this subtle yet very effective extraction of wind energy has not been discussed publicly nor studied.

Perhaps a small team of people could take a few years to build a database sufficient to inform the public of exactly how much impact these wind mines really have as they extract the energy from the cooling winds.

I’m sure folks living inland and downwind from these wind mines, really appreciate having the wind being taken from them, especially in summer. Crops and forests too. I know wind turbine engineers spend millions of dollars trying to resolve the problems of reduced and unstable airflow downwind from the rotor zone so they can try to extract even more energy from the one farm/mine site’s body of wind. Especially when the bigger weather systems come through and flood areas and create undergrowth to help really fuel those bushfires that destroy lives and local economies.

Let me know if you’d like to see some more maths and numbers or even a referenced journal-style paper to reinforce what I’m talking about above. I’m more than happy to share that stuff too. It’d be nice if someone might help fund a secret study to gain a meteorological database of such a thing. I certainly wouldn’t make it publicly known since many investors in the wind mine technology might do anything to keep their miracle money makers safely mining the sky of the planet’s own cooling system energy.