Limitations of Wind Energy

Limitations of Wind energy:migration route includes the pass. Past attempts to
No electricity when there is any windreduce bird kills have included painting the tips of turbine
The limitation of wind power is that no electricity isblades to try to make them more visible to birds and
produced when the wind is not blowing. Thus, it cannotinstalling screens around generators. These measures
be used as a dependable source of base load power.have failed to substantially lower the number of bird
Utilities and merchant generators will not invest hugedeaths.
sums of money into a technology that does not workBat kills are the latest big problem for wind farmers.
when the wind is not blowing. Americans want theResearcher’s estimate that 1,500 to 4,000 bats
lights on when they flip the switch, no questions asked.were killed at the Mountaineer Wind Energy Center in
Wind power will probably increase its market shareWestern Maryland in 2004. This is raising concerns
when we develop a 'smart grid' that can handleabout an expansion of wind turbine use at Backbon
multiple distributed generation input sources of electricalMountain in Maryland, where Clipper Wind power, Inc.of
power.California is planning to build a project 20 miles away
Wind Turbines Killing Migrating Birdsfrom the Mountaineer site.
It has been estimated that about 45,000 birds (goldenSolutions of limitations:
eagles, kestrels and red-tailed hawks) have been killedWe should build wind turbines where there is too much
over the past twenty years by the whirling blades ofof wind like near sea so there will be 24 hours
wind turbines. The rows of spinning blades at Altamontelectricity and the problem of electricity will be solved
Pass, east of San Francisco, turn wind into electricity,and there are less birds near sea so the problem of
but they are killing many predatory birds whose annualkilling birds will also be solved.