Largest offshore wind farm stuns media | 32 comments (32 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

10 myths about wind (4.00 / 4)

I've never seen, in one place, the 10 myths about wind concisively deconstructed, and exposed as myths with no relation to the truth.

I don't know that there are 10, but in the meme world these types of top ten lists do get some traction. The explanations of why they are myths will have to be short and easy to understand, but with scientific citations and evidence. 200 words max.

Now, I don't track the wind industry, except what I read here, so my suggestions for which myths will be deconstructed in the top 10 list will be only averagely informed.

Birds are killed and migration routes disturbed
They are noisy
They are ugly and destroy the landscape
Wind energy can't be stored
Radar is dangerously affected
The electricity they produce is too expensive
The best wind is too far from the grid
Inefficient
Cause health problems locally
Danger to shipping

Add your suggestions for myths to be debunked. Perhaps there might be something worth doing here? Or am I just out of the loop?

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Sep 23rd, 2010 at 02:24:35 PM EST

Re: 10 myths about wind (4.00 / 3)

11. Intermittence: the wind "stops" and what then?

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Every MW of wind capacity needs a corresponding MW of back-up because of (11)
Wind gets government subsidies (= misallocation of resources, see marketista handbook).
Wind is not Serious™ - it's just OK for fancy niche applications and can't scale up to industrial level.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Sep 23rd, 2010 at 02:51:30 PM EST
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Re: 10 myths about wind (none / 0)

Try