Could Wind Turbines Be A Catastrophe In The Making?

Christopher Booker is a journalist in the UK for the Sunday Telegraph through which he shows a sceptical attitude to global warming and wind turbines. There is little scepticism about climate change - it is definite. Scepticism would be thrown aside if it could be shown that it and possibly global warming are actually being contributed to by wind turbines.

The changes we see here might be the unintended consequences of their action as it coincides with the massive installation of them across the world but in the UK and Europe in particular.

Locally speaking, farmers in California actually choose to be in  the lee of wind farms to  avoid damaging night-time frosts. Friction or air tumbling might be the cause of this warming effect..

From a global viewpoint however, the Lorenz effect should be considered, given it contends that a butterfly’s flapping in the Amazon can disturb critical weather systems such as to cause a tsunami in Hawaii. How much more then the trillions of cubic kilometres of post turbine air that are is persistently rising into the brittle fabric of the atmosphere. Those massive volumes, being of low density and warmer air, are able to hold more water as vapour and rise and carry with them many thousands of tonnes of water which, perhaps, we are seeing descend in the North of the UK or anywhere else for that matter.

Also, not to diminish the effects of carbon dioxide with which it interacts very unfavourably, water vapour is the most important greenhouse ‘gas’.It's levels must rise with the rise in sea levels that are predicted and will aggravate in time the effects outlined above and contribute to global warming.
It is said that modelling of the weather is difficult. Forget modelling here.Turbines are everywhere.
What needs to be done now is getting measurements and sampling from what exists to determine what truth is in that which I have outlined.

I think, with a sizeable fraction of a trillion pounds spent on wind turbines already in the UK, it would be a good time to take stock before the rest of the planned installations here go ahead.

Time to take stock over wind turbine installations

The present situation with wind turbines needs assessment. Their installation by the many thousands across the world and the thousands in the UK in particular as a result of Ed Milliband signing us up to the dictates of the EU when he was energy secretary in the last Labour Government would imply that they are controversially rationale or that the industry producing them could do no better by way of design etc.
Worrying factors are:
- They all produce electricity which cannot be stored.
- The carbon footprint for their manufacture, installation and upkeep is not known or is not revealed.
- Their power contribution and the cost of their contribution from installation to the present and prospectively individually and collectively is not known or is not revealed.
-They don't work all the time and when they do it is at the behest of the weather and their potential contribution to the grid needs is unreliable.
- They need backup from other sources to cope with this unreliability from other grid sources of power.
- The conventional back-up sources are being run down or are not unequivocally known to cope.
- Their presence in the UK is mostly in the hands of foreign investment.
- Their is little or no contribution to their manufacture by the UK.
- Contractual arrangements mean owners of wind turbines are paid to shut them down to prevent grid over load so reflecting poor distribution of their output.
- It is almost certain that the increasing size of turbine size will conflict with the changing wind patterns as the slot of wind spectrum to start and stop them narrow.
- They all produce electricity which cannot be stored.
- Materials for their manufacture are increasingly in short supply and that their costs will rise.
- Their presence spoils a spectrum of naturally beautiful landscapes.

Some further understanding of the WASPHEAD

The silo as depicted appear to be floating just under the surface. I apologise for this illusion but it was really difficult to demonstrate the water flow beneath the Wasphead without doing that. The silos go to the sea bed but are deeply scalloped to allow flow throughout the footprint of the whole 'island'.
Of course the two lower diagrams in Fig. 8 show cut off sections and the plan view of the circulation of water beneath the 'island'.

The normal running of the hydroelectric generating unit is through the overspill or overflow from the top of the water-head in the silos thus keeping in hand that water-head potential when wind, tide wave and solar are inadequate to the grid's needs.
This allows tide and overspill from the central hydro-electric generating unit and from any overfill of the silos themselves which is not being diverted to this generating unit, to contribute to the tidal effect on the marginal tidal/wave generators.

In the vimeo there is some detailing of the flow of rainwater into the marginal silo

The whole of the 'islands' margin will be contained by these particular silos and the pump action of the tide and waves on the drum turbine in the base of the silos will contribute to the total water-head driving the central generation turbine and of course be separate from the section of silo above it containing the fresh water.

A diagram of the action of the drum turbine is shown in Fig. 9 below.

Some detail as to how the rotary and vertical reciprocation action of the drum pumps water through a cam mechanism is shown below.