'Repowering' a wind farm

[Finishline42]

This series of tweets illustrates one of the reasons a windmill gets retired before it actually breaks down. (doubling the diameter of the blades more than triples the output, which is why windmills keep getting bigger)

Shortcut to the end - 16 new 6.6MW Siemens Gamesa turbines will replace 50 existing windmills and produce 6 times the previous output.

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[NNadir]

1. Wow, replacing disposable junk with more junk.

We're over 424 ppm cincentratuons of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide on this planet, after 50 years of hyping continuous band aids for unreliable jwind junk that has done nothing to address climate change.

Of course the people who attack the world's only reliable source of climate change free energy, nuclear energy, are spectacularly disinterested in climate change. They don't call on Germany to shut its coal plants because wind energy is so great. Rebuilding this junk over and over and and over will not shut one fossil fuel plant or prevent new ones from being built, particularly with the "we don't seriously give a shit about climate change" excuse that all the new gas and coal plants built in this century are "transitional."

If we gave a rat's ass about climate change - we don't - we would simply haul the tens of thousands of wind turbines scattered across thousands of square miles of industrial parks, replacing all of them with reliable nuclear plants that do not require obscene redundancies that are environmentally and economically unsustainable.