Wind Watch: October 2022

Ici le gouvernement préserve le climat.

Here the government saves the climate.
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Full Cost of Electricity “FCOE” and Energy Returns “eROI”

Abstract Understanding electricity generation’s true cost is paramount to choosing and prioritizing our future energy systems. This paper introduces the full cost of electricity (FCOE) and discusses energy returns (eROI). The authors conclude with suggestions for energy policy considering the new challenges that come with global efforts to “decarbonize”. In 2021, debate started to occur regarding energy security (or rather electricity security) which was driven by an increase in electricity demand, shortage of energy raw material supply, insufficient electricity generation . . .
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Full Cost of Electricity “FCOE” and Energy Returns “eROI”

#NOR Magnetic fields produced by subsea high-voltage direct current cables reduce swimming activity of haddock larvae (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

Abstract – High-voltage direct current (HVDC) subsea cables are used to transport power between locations and from/to nearshore and offshore facilities. HVDC cables produce magnetic fields (B-fields) that could impact marine fish. Atlantic haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) is a demersal fish that is at risk of exposure to anthropogenic B-fields. Their larvae drift over the continental shelf, and use the Earth’s magnetic field for orientation during dispersal. Therefore, anthropogenic magnetic fields from HVDC cables could alter their behavior. We tested the behavior . . .
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Wind and Solar—The Penetration Problem: The More You Do, The Harder It Gets

There seems to be a belief that increasing the level of wind and solar projects will make subsequent progress with these resources easier. Nothing could be further from the truth. Increasing penetration levels of wind and solar is like a Sisyphean task, except that it is worse. The challenge may be better understood as akin to pushing a huge rock which is getting heavier and heavier, up a hill of a steeper and steeper slope while the ground below gets . . .
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Fire in Williamsburg, Iowa

Wind turbine fire, Williamsburg, Iowa, October 24, 2022 - photo by Williamsburg Fire Department
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#NOR Magnetic fields produced by subsea high-voltage direct current cables reduce swimming activity of haddock larvae (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

#USA Wind turbine wakes can impact down-wind vegetation greenness

Abstract—Global wind energy has expanded 5-fold since 2010 and is predicted to expand another 8–10-fold over the next 30 years. Wakes generated by wind turbines can alter downwind microclimates and potentially downwind vegetation. However, the design of past studies has made it difficult to isolate the impact of wake effects on vegetation from land cover change. We used hourly wind data to model wake and non-wake zones around 17 wind facilities across the U.S. and compared remotely-sensed vegetation greenness in . . .
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#MO Understanding the Opposition: From a Knox County Land Owner

“There are four of us leading this battle in Knox County [Missouri]. (We are all land owners, three of us are “Century Farms”). I can tell you they are smooth. Tenaska had been invited in by a local lawyer. From there they “quietly” approached land owners promising high payments for their land to be leased. “All you have to do is sign the contract”. Well … inside this contract is a “gag order” – meaning you cannot discuss said project . . .
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#MO Understanding the Opposition: From a Knox County Land Owner

Pre-Sleep Cognitive Arousal and Sleep Misperception

Pre-Sleep Cognitive Arousal Is Negatively Associated with Sleep Misperception in Healthy Sleepers during Habitual Environmental Noise Exposure: An Actigraphy Study Abstract – Specific noises (e.g., traffic or wind turbines) can disrupt sleep and potentially cause a mismatch between subjective sleep and objective sleep (i.e., “sleep misperception”). Some individuals are likely to be more vulnerable than others to noise-related sleep disturbances, potentially as a result of increased pre-sleep cognitive arousal. The aim of the present study was to examine the relationships between . . .
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#OH Crawford Anti-Wind campaign spots

Crawford Anti-Wind
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Pre-Sleep Cognitive Arousal and Sleep Misperception

Call for Papers — Tenth International Conference on Wind Turbine Noise

Wind Turbine Noise 2023 June 21-23, 2023 Trinity Business School, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland https://www.windturbinenoise.eu/content/conferences/10-wind-turbine-noise-2023/ This is our tenth Wind Turbine Noise conference and we are back live on site again. This time in Dublin for three days on 21st to 23rd June 2023. We have a great venue on the historic campus at Trinity College Dublin right in the very heart of Dublin City. It is a few minutes’ walk from Temple Bar, Grafton Street, O’Connell Street and most . . .
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Wind and Solar—The Penetration Problem: The More You Do, The Harder It Gets

#USA Wind turbine wakes can impact down-wind vegetation greenness

The truth is leaking out

From Citizens Against Wind Turbines in Lake Erie
http://dlvr.it/SZYlHQ

#FRA Le Prix du Vent [The Price of Wind]

Le prix du vent: Des éoliennes, des bêtes et des hommes Maxime Poisot, Sioux Berger, Baptiste Chouet L’intérêt général ne peut s’affranchir de l’intérêt des particuliers au seul nom du progrès. [The general interest cannot ignore individual interests in the name of progress.] Sioux Berger est auteur et journaliste spécialisée dans les sujets d’écologie et de bien-être. Originaire d’Auvergne et vivant en région parisienne, elle a été confrontée à l’installation d’éoliennes dans le village familial et a dans ce contexte . . .
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