How offshore wind drives up global carbon emissions #USA

Executive Summary Offshore wind facilities are enormously expensive and environmentally destructive. The primary purported justification for constructing them is to reduce “carbon” (carbon dioxide or CO₂) emissions and save the planet from “catastrophic climate change.” However, this justification is not just built on a false premise, but adding offshore wind to a state’s energy mix will most likely also increase global CO₂ emissions. That means the net emission benefits are hugely negative, as are other net environmental and economic effects. . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/how-offshore-wind-drives-up-global-carbon-emissions/

How offshore wind drives up global carbon emissions #USA

Executive Summary Offshore wind facilities are enormously expensive and environmentally destructive. The primary purported justification for constructing them is to reduce “carbon” (carbon dioxide or CO₂) emissions and save the planet from “catastrophic climate change.” However, this justification is not just built on a false premise, but adding offshore wind to a state’s energy mix will most likely also increase global CO₂ emissions. That means the net emission benefits are hugely negative, as are other net environmental and economic effects. . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/how-offshore-wind-drives-up-global-carbon-emissions/

Impact of offshore wind farms on a tropical depression through the amplification effect by the downstream mountainous terrain #CHN

Highlights The evolution of a tropical depression is modified significantly by upstream offshore wind farms. The enhancement of convergence in the western side of the tropical depression is associated with gravity waves. Wind-farm wakes affect the low-level vertical wind shear through the downstream mountainous terrain. Abstract The influence of offshore wind farms in the northern South China Sea on a tropical depression far away (over the Beibu Gulf) is investigated through a fully coupled atmosphere-ocean model. Results show that in . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impact-of-offshore-wind-farms-on-a-tropical-depression-through-the-amplification-effect-by-the-downstream-mountainous-terrain/

Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge

In this timeline, STT sets out a chronology of what the wind industry and its pet acoustic consultants knew (and when they knew it); what the wind industry did in response to that knowledge; and how the wind industry and its parasites are fighting tooth and nail at present to ensure that that knowledge has no impact on its freedom to ride roughshod over the human rights, health and well-being of people living next door to wind farms.


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/three-decades-of-wind-industry-deception-a-chronology-of-a-global-conspiracy-of-silence-and-subterfuge/

Seasonal variability of wake impacts on US mid-Atlantic offshore wind plant power production #USA

Abstract. Wind turbines and wind plants create wakes, or regions of reduced wind speed, that may negatively affect downwind turbines and plants. We evaluate wake variability and annual energy production with the first yearlong modeling assessment using the Weather Research and Forecasting model, deploying 12 MW turbines across the domain at a density of 3.14 MW km−2, matching the planned density of 3 MW km−2. Using a series of simulations with no wind plants, one wind plant, and complete build-out of lease areas, we calculate . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/seasonal-variability-of-wake-impacts-on-us-mid-atlantic-offshore-wind-plant-power-production/

Impact of offshore wind farms on a tropical depression through the amplification effect by the downstream mountainous terrain #CHN

Highlights The evolution of a tropical depression is modified significantly by upstream offshore wind farms. The enhancement of convergence in the western side of the tropical depression is associated with gravity waves. Wind-farm wakes affect the low-level vertical wind shear through the downstream mountainous terrain. Abstract The influence of offshore wind farms in the northern South China Sea on a tropical depression far away (over the Beibu Gulf) is investigated through a fully coupled atmosphere-ocean model. Results show that in . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impact-of-offshore-wind-farms-on-a-tropical-depression-through-the-amplification-effect-by-the-downstream-mountainous-terrain/

Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge

In this timeline, STT sets out a chronology of what the wind industry and its pet acoustic consultants knew (and when they knew it); what the wind industry did in response to that knowledge; and how the wind industry and its parasites are fighting tooth and nail at present to ensure that that knowledge has no impact on its freedom to ride roughshod over the human rights, health and well-being of people living next door to wind farms.


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/three-decades-of-wind-industry-deception-a-chronology-of-a-global-conspiracy-of-silence-and-subterfuge/

Seasonal variability of wake impacts on US mid-Atlantic offshore wind plant power production #USA

Abstract. Wind turbines and wind plants create wakes, or regions of reduced wind speed, that may negatively affect downwind turbines and plants. We evaluate wake variability and annual energy production with the first yearlong modeling assessment using the Weather Research and Forecasting model, deploying 12 MW turbines across the domain at a density of 3.14 MW km−2, matching the planned density of 3 MW km−2. Using a series of simulations with no wind plants, one wind plant, and complete build-out of lease areas, we calculate . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/seasonal-variability-of-wake-impacts-on-us-mid-atlantic-offshore-wind-plant-power-production/

Impact of offshore wind farms on a tropical depression through the amplification effect by the downstream mountainous terrain #CHN

Highlights The evolution of a tropical depression is modified significantly by upstream offshore wind farms. The enhancement of convergence in the western side of the tropical depression is associated with gravity waves. Wind-farm wakes affect the low-level vertical wind shear through the downstream mountainous terrain. Abstract The influence of offshore wind farms in the northern South China Sea on a tropical depression far away (over the Beibu Gulf) is investigated through a fully coupled atmosphere-ocean model. Results show that in . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/impact-of-offshore-wind-farms-on-a-tropical-depression-through-the-amplification-effect-by-the-downstream-mountainous-terrain/

Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge

In this timeline, STT sets out a chronology of what the wind industry and its pet acoustic consultants knew (and when they knew it); what the wind industry did in response to that knowledge; and how the wind industry and its parasites are fighting tooth and nail at present to ensure that that knowledge has no impact on its freedom to ride roughshod over the human rights, health and well-being of people living next door to wind farms.


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/three-decades-of-wind-industry-deception-a-chronology-of-a-global-conspiracy-of-silence-and-subterfuge/

Seasonal variability of wake impacts on US mid-Atlantic offshore wind plant power production #USA

Abstract. Wind turbines and wind plants create wakes, or regions of reduced wind speed, that may negatively affect downwind turbines and plants. We evaluate wake variability and annual energy production with the first yearlong modeling assessment using the Weather Research and Forecasting model, deploying 12 MW turbines across the domain at a density of 3.14 MW km−2, matching the planned density of 3 MW km−2. Using a series of simulations with no wind plants, one wind plant, and complete build-out of lease areas, we calculate . . .


https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/seasonal-variability-of-wake-impacts-on-us-mid-atlantic-offshore-wind-plant-power-production/