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Originally Posted by glend
Wind energy has to be the most over-hyped generation method of them all. Those towers and turbines cost a fortune, and the payback period on that investment is decades, and by then they need to be replaced. The wind turbine that sits on the side of Cormorant Road in Newcastle NSW (ironcially positioned next to the coal loader) is being dismantled and removed, its been there for years but the thing doesn't generate much power and is expensive to keep running. There is no business case that makes sense, especially for a country like Australia with so much natural solar capability.
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These things work very well in the northern sea where the rain falls horizontally 300 days in a year.
That's why the largest manufacturer of wind turbines is Danish.
Now they flogged them all over the world. Well... some are still made by GE. Still, as you pointed out massive production and maintenance costs. They look pretty though.