About those "green" windmills

[r3020]

Be more efficient to just have a diesel engine turn a generator.

Scotland’s green-obsessed left-separatist government has been left with egg on its face by revelations that dozens of gigantic onshore wind turbines are having to be hooked up to diesel generators, leaking thousands of litres of hydraulic oil into the countryside.

Scottish Power — led by a Spaniard, Ignacio Galan, and actually a subsidiary of Spanish firm Iberdrola — conceded that some 71 of its turbines had to be hooked up to diesel generators to keep them warm in December, according to the Sunday Mail, with a whistleblower telling the left-leaning newspaper that problems with the turbines are deep-seated.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/02/06/green-fail-dozens-scottish-wind-turbines-powered-disel-g...

[sdholloway56]

Renewables were the largest source of generation in Europe last year.

Which is unfortunate for Putin and an existential threat to the lifeblood of the global fascism nexus.

[rickgthf]

... winterized two years ago all those Texans won't have frozen to death.

  Turdy obviously does not understand how di-icers work or how emergency systems only use power when necessary, aka. a few hours per year, compared to the thousands of hours of cheap renewable energy generated.

  But then again, Turdy is one of the stupidest sh*theads alive today.

[sdholloway56]

I.e., Brietbart is a professional disinformation network and Turdy is an eager disseminator.

[r3020]

Coal, does not need to be deiced. And ice and wind has the ability to take down power lines which leads to power outages. Some time it takes days to restore those outages.

[bruce MN]

34K still out, right there in the capital city a week in.