I didn't pay attention to who the poster was. I am sorry everyone.
Wigh, again the baltic is a terrible comparison as they are using a radically different method. Current capacity is also a terrible way to measure green energy efficiency as the government disproportionately invests in fossil fuels. That graph is why change is necessary you are lacking all logic to think that backs you up.
There is not a negative to getting more clean energy, especially because these will be in space that is already occupied by buildings and that is already noisy because of the city. More buildings need to be built this way.
Coleslaw -- Once again transfer of momentum from moving air to moving metal / plastic / wood -- it doesn't matter -- the air is deflected, vorticity and turbulence is produced and the end result is increased noise -- the previous is not in doubt
Now of course the introduction of the structure into the wind field itself leads to much of the same -- e.g. the Howling Wind around a building -- you do have some control over how you shape the structure and how much wind effects there are due to the building itself
Current capacity is also a terrible way to measure green energy efficiency as the government disproportionately invests in fossil fuels. That graph is why change is necessary you are lacking all logic to think that backs you up.
as for the statement that current capacity is not a good way to measure Green Energy Efficiency -- I suppose that the Green Energy Fairy Godmother is going to wave her wand and Isaac Newton's Suggestions are going to disappear in a puff of smoke -- Give it a rest
or is it just that you do not know what is a Capacity Factor
For your edification there are numbers on the generator known as Nameplate Capacity -- i.e. continuous output Power
Take the total output over a period of time [say a year] that is Energy that has been produced
If you take the Energy Produced and divide it by the Possible Energy Production [Power * Time ] the resultant is the Capacity Factor
Note that at the top is the Greenest of all Energy -- Nuclear
Note further that of the "renewables" Wind and Solar are quite low -- they are unreliable
Finally at the bottom is the gas fired combustion turbine -- very low because it is only used infrequently to make peak demand or replace another generator which is unavailable
However -- Even when fully operational Green Energy is diffuse energy -- well over 1000 of that big turbine in Everett still will not equal the output of the new Natural Gas Combined Cycle Units at Everett Station. Further when the wind doesn't blow -- you'd better have some Natural Gas for back-up
