Orbiting Wind Turbines: The Best Solution

It was recently reported that the Danish wind-energy-dominated electricity-generation system has failed to meet performance expectations, contributing to Europe’s catastrophic power shortage and incurring massive financial losses as a result.

The large-scale use of wind turbines to produce electricity has also slaughtered billions of birds. Furthermore, it has disrupted electrical grids by imposing massive power throttling and switching requirements on fossil-fuel or nuclear-power backup systems to match the unpredictable variation in output from the wind generators. In addition, the hordes of windmills necessary to produce such intermittent power at scale are ugly and desecrate any area they infest, on land or sea.

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Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer and the author of twelve books, most recently The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet.

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It was recently reported that the Danish wind-energy-dominated electricity-generation system has failed to meet performance expectations, contributing to Europe’s catastrophic power shortage and incurring massive financial losses as a result.

The large-scale use of wind turbines to produce electricity has also slaughtered billions of birds. Furthermore, it has disrupted electrical grids by imposing massive power throttling and switching requirements on fossil-fuel or nuclear-power backup systems to match the unpredictable variation in output from the wind generators. In addition, the hordes of windmills necessary to produce such intermittent power at scale are ugly and desecrate any area they infest, on land or sea.