
Do wind turbines work when it’s cold?
Turbine blades can ice over at temperatures below freezing, but many turbines come with systems that prevent this.
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Turbine blades can ice over at temperatures below freezing, but many turbines come with systems that prevent this.
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Building a single wind turbine requires a jaw-dropping quantity of energy and resources. Wind turbines are expensive, inefficient, bird-, and bat-slaying.
Data centers are largely powered by fossil fuels today, but that may start to change.
The Ivanpah solar plant uses solar concentration power, very different from the technology used in most solar farms today.
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Diesel generators are powering wind turbines.
We still do not have official information on what caused the blackout, but we can say that blaming solar or wind is likely overly simplistic and misleading.
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Solar panels can heat up their surroundings and have unknown consequences on the surrounding environment.
Adding more solar and wind can increase the price that homes pay for electricity. But energy type is only one piece of the puzzle, and simply because a grid has more solar or wind does not mean it is more expensive.
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Farmers have lost their crops and livelihood due to microplastics and fiberglass from eroding wind turbine blades.
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A staggering quantity of CO2 emissions are required to erect a single wind turbine. A significant proportion of retired turbine blades end up in landfill sites, unable to be recycled.