Robert Dunn
@AgingWheels
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Obscure car enthusiast, youtuber, model, billionaire, best-selling author, and compulsive liar.
St Louis, MO
Joined February 2015
@T_stroya Like I said, probably just excess generation capacity or maintenance. It takes energy to slow them down, but that energy is vastly outweighed by the energy they generate. It also takes energy to get them up to speed from a stand still (if I'm not mistaken)
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@T_stroya Energy to hold the brakes? We have locking mechanisms. Besides, they typically tilt the rotors perpendicular to the wind so they don't generate thrust. Wind farms can be offline for any number of reasons including excess capacity and maintenance
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@ArthurRoy1388 It's like you parroted the exact wrong information that was debunked in the video I linked. Jiminy
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@MaxBalesteri Also, being easy to breakdown would be a bad trait in something that has to withstand the elements for 30 years
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@AcidGreen19 @mike77cos @richardbrunning Again, 40dB is impossibly quiet for outside. I can barely get a reading that low inside with everything off
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@bassman88fl @richardbrunning This is nonsense. Wind makes up enormous chunks of the power grid in many countries. Power companies keep building them not because they're "green", but because they're a cheap source of electricity
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@AcidGreen19 @mike77cos @richardbrunning That chart is insanely misleading. 50 dB is incredibly quiet. Very, very few window units in the world are that quiet. I've been up next to many wind farms. They're essentially inaudible unless you're right up next to one. Even then the transformer is nearly as loud
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@brandenflasch Thinking about this more, the better solution would've been to have the resulting stations be independently tested on a regular basis and fined for down time. But no, let's nuke the whole program because why not nothing matters
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