Volker on Nostr: Big ones need all sorts of approvals from the regulators. We DID roll out a huge ...

Big ones need all sorts of approvals from the regulators. We DID roll out a huge bunch of large wind turbines in Germany recently. A lot of drawbacks: the landscape looks awful, it's a noisy mess, downstream the windmills the ground dries out, overproduction and reserve capacity make energy hideously expensive to the end user., and so on.

They need to be as high up as possible, because wind speed near the ground are relatively slow. That's why they get bigger every year. I'm sure they could efficiently be mass produced, even if they're hard to deploy because of said foundation (a huge heavy concrete slab to weigh the thing down), but I suspect the whole enchillada won't be as energy efficient overall.