The Platte River Power Authority built giant wind and solar farms in Wyoming and Colorado to power Northern Colorado. Last night wind and solar produced almost no electricity. This afternoon we drove past their giant wind farm west of Cheyenne, and the turbines were almost motionless in the calm air.
Coming from the Panhandle area and being landowners there and in Northern Colorado we experience the weather patterns you saw quite often – it’s a given that when it’s a really warm/hot summer eve or chilly/bitter winter night the wind can’t be found. Yet they are tearing down the tiny couple hundred feet turbines around Sidney/Kimball and replacing them with the 600 footers. If that wasn’t bad enough they are taking thousands of acres of pasture and putting in mirrors (or umm solar panels).
Your observations and ability to put them into distinct sentences gives me faith and hope that before it is all destroyed someone will flick that light bulb on and say “Maybe this isn’t the best idea.”.
For almost two decades I’ve wondered just how much these wind turbines consume in power when the wind does not blow because they must turn to be lubricated and to my knowledge they haven’t harnessed any of Tesla’s energy.
Just love your articles so thanks for the hope you spread!