Re: Research: Wind power pricier, emits more CO2 than thought

On Jul 7, 2:44 am, disgoftunwells <disgoftunwe...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Wind Power is still not a mature technology - the largest wind farms
in operation are only several hundred MW of capacity. That puts them
with early PWR designs in terms of maturity.

How do you define mature?

It is not merely a matter of size. A mature technology is where all
of the black art has been codified to the point that you can stick
performance numbers and constraints into a formula and crank out a
design. Wind power has more constraints, so the result is not
particularily desirable, but that does not make it less mature.

Every component of wind power, taken in isolation, is mature. Towers
are mature. Airfoils are mature. Generators are mature. Even power
electronics are mature. I fail to see how you can consider wind power
to be less than a mature technology. They have been building wind
turbines for power production for seventy years, and then some. How
can it not be mature?
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