There are so many negative factual wrongs here . 1/You say that a Chinese company is DESIGNING a windmill the size of the Eiffel Tower. Denmark have a windmill higher than the Eiffel Tower raised and in PRODUCTION. THAT are one of the mills the worlds largest transition project are going to be based on. 2/I have dived around n offshore windmill. It´s just like diving at a coral reef. It functions as a nursery for the bottom of the aquatic marine life. When you dive you can hear a large ship before you can see it. Windmills do not disturb underwater. First the foundations gets seaweed and mussels and then the life begins to flourish. Seaweed and mussels EAT CO2. One of the issues with burning fossil fuels besides the catastrophic build up of CO2 in our atmosphere are that the same happens in our heating oceans at a delayed rate. The foundations thus will have a both local and global positive effect in removing the excess CO2 just as it will have a positive effect on fish stocks. By making the offshore windmill farms "safe heavens" they will provide positive replenishment of local and global fish stocks that are under pressure. Result thus will be more fish for the fishermen where they fish because as the protected fish gets bigger they will seek to deeper waters, where the fishermen roam. 3/Windmills produce the CHEAPEST emission free electricity, far cheaper than nuclear power AND it can be raised many times faster AND it does not come will the risk of disastrous accidents nor a 100.000 year demand of storing and protecting the waste, 4/How on earth can you claim that 98% of the materials come from China? That are factually not the case. Denmark´s neighbouring countries have both iron and steel production and that constitutes the vast part of the material. On top Denmark´s neighbouring countries are leading the world in fossil fuel free steel production, 5/ Hoe many birds live at sea? There are no Albatrosses in Denmark. Birds have eyes and I have seen seagulls bobbing around the offshore windmill farms close to Copenhagen. They learn they are there and do not fly into them. They though love to take advantage of the many small fish attracted by the foundations and enjoy the easy food there as well. 6/The energy island concept truly are a gamechanger. The worlds largest transition project away from fossil/nuclear fuel will transition 220 million Europeans to emission free electricity in just a decades time. On top the worlds largest green hydrogen production. A small one digit percentage of this hydrogen will be used to ensure emission free energy also when the wind does not blow. Thus NO batteries demanding rare earth materials that CHINA actually controls 90% of world market off THUS the combination of windmills and green hydrogen production makes a nation independent of BOTH Russian and Chinese moods. Thus this concept also comes with energy production security stability AND national security stability and enhancements! 7/ It´s not just Denmark (and Belgium, Netherlands, Germany that also are part of the worlds largest transition project) that have good conditions for cheap offshore windenergy. The large nations with highest greenhouse gas emissions per caita, Australia, USA, Canada also have great conditions to utilise this solution and NOTHING but themselves prevent them from doing so. The three named nations today use taxpayer money on SUBSIDISING fossil fuels and that truly are insanity and unsustainable considering we have an atmospheric carbon content of over insane 420 when it SHOULD be 220 PPM. Basically all nations with sea access, except at a band closest to Equator, will be able to take advantage of these emission free cheap solutions. The climate change effect we see with increases in draughts, floods, hurricanes etc etc. every year comes with higher and higher costs in human suffering, negative financial consequences and instability. The last 5 years we have seen us going from being in the meridian of projected climate consequences to the very highest end of projections, even exceeding them on some points. It are only a matter of short time, can be next year, in 5 or maybe 10 if we are "lucky" where we will see several large farming nations harvests fail at the same time caused by climate extremes and that can easily cause famine for 100 of millions of people or worse. Offshore windmills are the perfect answer to create bulk amounts of emission free energy. WE cannot afford NOT to take this opportunity to make a fast and cheap transition to emission free energy while the world still stands.
You are missing some information in your video at the end with the islands. The main reason for building the islands is to build a hydrogen plant out there so that all the excess energy is converted into hydrogen that can be burned later when there is not so much wind the island in North Sea is also used as a meeting point for the energy grid and is connected to Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark and a hydrogen line will also be made to Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. when the project is finished
You are missing some extra information ;) These hydrogen plants are to be used in the container industry, more specifically Maersk who are creating a new fleet of dual fuel engines that should be able to run on Methanol.
@@Andreassoegaardinteresting DK and Maersk... Are you using North Cotean slaves to build these ships as well.... Burnring them alive when/if they don't work the "real" Danish way!?!? This IS what you did a few years ago I'm aware.... 😰
@@Mosern1977 thas only looking at numbers tho. Lets not forget the inherent risk of nuclear, and the long lifetime of nuclear residues. It can be key buy thats why we should couple it with wind and solar
Yes, we need to keep nuclear around, who knows we might need it for space travel. Here on earth, the issue is base load. The way things look is that base load is not as important as it has been. Wind and solar energy will become super abundant. Battery storage continues to develop. Long distant transport of electricity (HVDC) will eliminate intermittency. Actually, advanced geothermal could out compete nuclear.
Denmark doesnt pay higher power prices because of wind. The price of power in European countries is ironically tied to the price of gas regardless of what the primary generation source is. They pay higher prices primarily due to tax. The UK also pays higher prices despite generating huge amounts of power from wind, but the reason is different, they pay more because of their privatisation economic model - private sector price gouging, fees, subsidies and inefficiencies.
It has indeed bit us that electricity price is tied to gas prices. When the gas prices rose a few years ago the electricity followed despite we had more that 100% covered by wind at good windy days. Well, at least it was still produced by winds and not fossil gas.
Absolutely. My heat pump produces less than half the CO2 per kwh of what a gas boiler would and that ratio is geting better as more renewables are coming online. Owing to the scandalous way in which the electricity price is linked to that of gas I actually have to pay more per kwh than if I used gas. If wwe are to take global warming seriously that has to change. I am not on the gas main so I used to have to use oil so it is not so bad.
@@snydogpisYou just forget that "100% covered by wind" is straight up nonsense in financial terms. Sure, you can get your power cheaply from wind - sometimes. But would you really want to keep that deal if the trade off was no power on not so windy days, or waiting for industrial production to shut down on normally windy days before you get electricity? The price of power from source which doesn't deliver permanently cannot be calculated without including the price of the backup plants, which at this point means 100% backup capacity because no viable storage form exists.
@@poulwinther the offshore wind farms will have mills that is around 250 m high, there is always wind up there. same time in denmark we wont just be depending on winds but also of sun cell farms, and talk about of mini Nuclear power, that we are researching to make safer than those in use atm. actually they have proto type of such that can fit in a 40" container and deliever power to a medium danish city, meaning around 500 000 households. also off shore means that water heat and cool with the earth in shores, it naturally makes vinds, either forward of off land due to the cold and warm, as all know that had Geografi in schools that when hot air is less dens than cold, and the hot will be push upward and then cold drags in. mean normal wind will be created off shore.
Less than 6,000,000 people and living the nightmare of Republicans in a social democracy using the free market to control most things. Yet Denmark has invented LEGO, wegovy, Mærsk, Vestas, Novo and many more. Creativity and willingness to build a company works well in a country where nearly everyone are economically safe throughout their lives.
Social mobility allows Denmark to utilize the skills of Danes from lower class backgrounds. We get the best of the best, because we have a greater talent pool.
USA and Denmark are very different countries and both Republicans and the Democratic Party are totally wrong about how we are both parties are noticing like what we are In Denmark the social Democrats are very hard line on migration, especially illegal migration, we don’t allow people to live illegally in Denmark, we are not like the Nazis so the government doesn’t register your skin color 😂 there are no black or white danish only Danish ethnicity, which only means one of your parents or both was a danish citizen when you where born = Danish citizen and ethnic Danish, if you’re adopted from Chad by Danish parents you automatically become a citizen and ethnic Danish. Almost everyone in the work force are members of corporatist Unions the same with the employers they have there own unions. Denmark of course doesn’t have a government set by law minimum wage, because that’s what fascist do, but because our market is much more free the the USA protectionism market, the private union’s set the wages and working conditions because the market knows better than the government what’s the right wages. We don’t give harmful chemicals to children suffering from gender dysphoria, who are treated with psychiatric therapy, and of those who have it before puberty after puberty 2/3 has found comfort in their genetic gender, try to imagine the USA are castigating children who have a severe mental illness which 2/3 can get better without harming them like the Democratic Party wants, no we definitely have not in common whit people who for no scientific reason, or medical reason are castigating children and they are probably bragging about their inhumane treatment of those children who are the most vulnerable. Hop those responsible will get held accountable soon
I think you are wrong about the price of wind power compared to other sources. As far as I know, wind power has a total cost of less than ,25 dkk/kkWh, at the mill, while traditional nuclear power costs more than ,75 dkk/kWh at the power plant. Considered that a Nuclear power plant can deliver power on demand, this is not so bad everything considered. But it raises some questions about nuclear plants ability to turn production up and down fast enough, so that nuclear power does not hinder the use of cheap wind and solar energy. And what is the production price of nuclear power, if they have to compete on the Nordic energy marketplace Nord Pool? They would have to shut down nuclear capacity in long periods of the summer, where there will be a surplus of wind + sun. Then I think the production price/kWh would rise considerably.
the price of electricity in Denmark just now (today at 17:30 ) is 0.0238 DKr/KW = approximately 0,0035 $ then you add what it costs to use the grid and the tax and that adds up to 1.39 DKr/KW ≈ 0,20 $/KW Today the wind is blowing and the prise of electricity falls
@@mammasut8280 Yes, the power itself is almost free, but the infrastructur and taxes are what drive up the cost. At time of speaking (12:50), the power cost is aprox 1.13kr, roughly $0.17 and if you remove taxes and transport from the price it is actually so low that it's technically negative (but I can't get a more accurate price than -0.00kr), which means that right now we are only paying taxes and transport. At around 14:00 (2PM) the prices are projected to fall to -0.02kr, that is, the price of wind will fall so low that every kW/h is subsidized with 0.04kr (or $0.006), not much, but hey free energy is free energi ;), At that point in time however terrifs, taxes, infrastructure etc will bring the price up to 1.12kr ($0.17), which still isn't bad, I mean sure it's a far cry from the roughly $0.2 that people in the US tend to pay, but our infrastructure is in way better shape and I can't actually see if the US prices include taxes tarrifs etc
@@mammasut8280 You didn’t read what was written, 1.39 DKR was including all. And you don’t know what you are talking about, green energy is target for fewer taxes and wind energy price is relative to wind - the last years we had days with free power, only to pay distribution costs :)
Onshore wind is cheaper than natural gas. Offshore wind is about 2x as expensive as onshore wind. At 8:52 you said that offshore wind is 3 times as expensive as natural gas, but the internet says it's about 1.4 to 1.8 times as expensive. I bet pollution from coal and gas does more harm to birds than wind turbines do.
Onshore wind is NOT cheaper than natural gas. I bet you are not an Energy Engineer and have no idea how perfected scrubbers on Coal Plants or the use of Natural Gas has minimal impact on the environment. Further, you said nothing about Nuclear Power... the cleanest, more power for the buck, efficient power source known to mankind.
@@stephenresler Clean while being operated, as any other heat source, but leaving the most absurdly poisonous waste as a result of this production!!! Come back when you have found out to neutralize the waste, as the wings from the Wind Mills! We still have many years of waste from our Nuclear Research Station at Risø to get rid of!!! Though we in Denmark never have built Nuclear Plants, we had one of the most famous Theoretical Nuclear Scientists, Nobel Prize Winner: Niels Bohr! He also ended up participated in the US Manhattan Project, as a Jew.
@@stephenreslernuclear is by far the most expensive. Clearly you are not an engineer so stop spouting lies. Onshore is now cheaper than gas having dropped 70% in ten years.
I had a Danish neighbor living next door to me in Cambridge, MA USA in 2012. He was the most beautiful guy I have ever met! He made me a homemade meal and also greeted me and welcomed me to the community! I only know his first name: Seth and I wish someday to meet him again.... And here in Palm Springs, CA USA we have a lot of turbines and it has become part of the landscape and artwork here.
Such a great video and it opens up for tons of new ideas and new perspectives and it’s a great project that’s going on and a big thanks to for sharing this video with the whole world 💕 Thank youuuu and thank youuuu
You say that a Chinese company are DESIGNING a windmill the size of the Eiffel Tower. Denmark have a windmill higher than the Eiffel Tower raised and in PRODUCTION. THAT are one of the mills the worlds largest transition project are going to be based on.
@@lester8403 That can be true but point were that he pointed to China. I think it should be very clear that the worlds most productive and advanced windmills are being produced in the free world, not China. The cheapest means of bulk energy production now are windmills, not just the cheapest emission free bulk energy but cheapest, period. Many nations are stuck in old established systems and downright subsidise fossil/nuclear fuel in 2024 and that´s bonkers to put it mildly. The production output from the windmill made in Denmark, higher than the Eiffel tower, demonstrates it are the highest producing windmill in the world.
@@Photosounder Because it should make a difference for people of morals and ethics if they are on the side of dictators violating UN charter, international law, human rights and rules of war or not. When it are mentioned, wrongly, that largest mills are made in China, it were important to me to underline that it were a wrong statement. The same manufacturer, Vestas, that are HQ´ed in Co-founding NATO nation Denmark, consistently for last 4 decades been beaten world record after world record when it comes to windmill productivity and ability to also place such with high reliability at sea. I hope my explanation makes it clear why it are not a revelation as such but a point I want to stress. Nations like Australia, USA, Canada have optimal conditions for creating cheap bulk emission free energy this way and important they know they can do so via both best and reliable free world suppliers that wont bring them in trouble should any potential global insecurities materialise in the future.
Wind power is great and all but is temperamental. Green energy as a whole is great but other than hydropower which is relatively consistent and geothermal which isn't being focused on nearly enough, the 'big hitters' of wind and solar are simply too unreliable to be the primary energy source. We're trying to solve this issue with energy storage, but as you've said in this video we're not eve close in that regard. The problem is not with green energy itself but rather the obsession with it(and picking the 2 worst options: wind and solar) at the expense of other energy sources. Germany's anti nuclear crusade for example led them to actually bring coal power back, yes coal! Nuclear certainly has its issues with waste, but it's still by far the lesser evil compared to what it brings to the table. The problem is that nuclear energy has all been all but abandoned in the west, especially Europe, in favor of green energy to the point where Asia(and Russia which is partially in Asia) is now the leading force behind nuclear power rather than the west. Wind and solar energy simply can't be the primary source of energy until storage technology catches up, and we're decades away from that if not more. In the meantime we're all suffering because the greens decided nuclear power is as bad as fossil fuels for some weird reason and use fearmongering: be it Chernobyl or Fukushima, to justify their retarded stance, thus we all lose.
It’s not correct that «we have no way of storing the energy from wind». Battery parks are ot the only way. Almost next door is Norway, with huge hydro pwer resources. Through subsea HVDC cables it functions as Noethern Europe’s battery. There are several cable to Denmark, several to Germany and The Netherlands, and even one crossing the Noeth Sea to Britan
Norway's "huge hydro pwer resources" aren't pumped. They can't store energy from wind. Did you mean Norway can import Danish wind and stop its hydro? Exporting energy to a country who can turn off some generators works but you can't 'get it back'. Storing national-scale energy from wind needs conversion to fluid (cheap to store) energy medium. Many scientists suggest hydrogen. Methane is less efficient but already has matching applications (like power stations) and is a stepping stone to e-fuels, and Europe already has a huge capacity gas network. But at present it's sadly largely true "we have no way of storing energy from wind".
@@trs4u What? Norway has hydro plants that pump water into reservoirs and "save" the energy for when it's needed or gets more expensive. It's actually quite simple and super smart. Use all the unused electricity at night where it's practically free, or the excess production from solar in the summer etc. and pump water into reservoirs. Let it flow back down through turbines when needed/when it's expensive again. Pretty much a battery. Not super effective, but it doesn't have to be, when the thing that fills it up is free.
@@DennisEldrup Norway's hydro is mostly not-pumped, more than 30GW of it, which means they can't store energy supplied from some other source. They have only about 1GW of pumped hydro, which is probably used for peak fill-in. Pumped works 'like a battery', natural hydro doesn't
Lack of efficient storage space for energy, is why the plan is to make hydrogen when there is a surplus of energy, and then use it when there is a lack of energy.
You say electricity from wind is expensive, but as a dane I can say that our prices are lowest when the wind is producing the most of our electricity, sometimes (if you take away the taxes) the price is negative and you get paid to use the power…
And you cant see that is fucked up?? Imagine you would have to pay to go to work sometimes?? Yes if you remove the taxes of fossil fuels EVs can go to the junkyard.
Context is important. Obviously the demand in this video was in reference to the electrical power grid. Demand was clearly not referring to the food calories you eat to power your body or the sun rays needed to power your garden's photosynthesis.
The system cost for wind power is very high, since you also need to completely fund what ever is supposed to deliver electricity when the wind is not blowing.
Yes it gets annoying to sleep hearing wind is green and cheaper -- if you remove the taxes, Santa clause and dont consider your salary. The price just keep going up and i think we have the highest prices together with Germany in Europe!! We just had a dunkelflaute where it went over 10 kr kWh.. so whether wind is 0.75 kr if you remove all the expense for removal and scraping, the subsidiaries that ex Vestas had and tried to not pay taxes. It still get a power grid that seems expensive and Yeah power maybe cheap at 3:00 - but what does it help when you need to cook food when its 4 kr? Like those who just bought a solar system for 150000 kr -- oh i have free power. . Yeah ok. Must be nice to earn that much money..
I learned so much ty. Im from Denmark and I might get a job at Siemens Gemase. My dad worked there where they only has 800-1200 people at the company in the 90’s. Its high paid job while having no degree.
Modern nuclear reactors are pretty safe from what I've heard with a ton of redundancies in place but they're also likely targets for saboteurs and a few well placed missile strikes that manage to get past the air defenses or even a bomb could very well send the plant into a meltdown and make a wide zone around the plant irradiated and uninhabitable just like with Hiroshima and Nagasaki because US military so carelessly threw atomic bombs above those areas back when they had serious beef with Japan. The Chernobyl disaster was because of an early reactor design that wasn't as safe and didn't have as many redundancies as a modern nuclear plant would have today.
Dude i fucking love being Danish and being completely fucking disconnected from reality, never leaving my little internet bubble, then seeing on my youtube recommended "Denmark is doing X thing" and i'm just sitting here going "we're doing that? cool." i love it here
Som dansk fisker er jeg både for og imod, som han selv siger i videoen the fisherman is f***ed selvom fiskeriet er et af Danmarks største erhverv, så på grund af den negative medie omtale som kun er 20% korrekte data og "research" er politikerne ved at ødelægge fiskepladser med disse vindfarme, som højst sandsynligt vil være endnu mere skadende for fiskebestandene i Nordsøen end fiskeriet nogensinde har været, men så længe dem der sidder på borgen kan virke grønne og miljørigtige så er det ligegyldigt hvad sandheden egentlig er, og hvis alle disse farme er komm op om 30 år, så findes der ikke dansk fiskeri længere, Mette smadrede mink industrien men de alle smadrer fiskeriet 😔😔
Minister Svend Auken played a big role building up this green industry. Stones in earth, liquid salt etc etc is planned as batteries. Who knows.... maybe surplus windenergy could be used to raise water in waterbatteries around Europe in grid.
Most energy companies in Denmark set their prices to vary based on the price of the energy used. Let's say that you spent 10KW thursday, and the energy used, the company bought wednesday at a high price due to weather or having to buy a different source. That price then reflects on the consumer bill. You can also, as a consumer, fix the price for 6-12 months at a time, where the price doesn't fluctuate based on the variation in price. The fixed price is typically a bit higher, but averages out to be about the same annually, since you can predict seasonal event and winds fairly accurately. Energy might be slightly expensive in Denmark, and in the past few years, unforseen circumstances has made it even more expensive. So the government stepped up and actually provided tax-free financial assistance to those most affected by it. Students, elderly, people making under a certain amount of money, people with high rent compared to income and such. They did the same with the inflation crisis and passed a law about it in 2022. Just this month for example, the government paid my rent, because I was one of the "lucky few" eligible. I believe it was last year, the government even fixed the energy price by law for 6 months, to make it the same as the EU average(price was at the time 3x-6x EU average if I remember correctly), due to the Russo-Ukraine conflict raising energy prices dramatically. Even so, the taxes on the energy have consistently been higher than the price of the energy itself, so the taxes on energy is the cause of the higher price of energy in Denmark, not so much the price of the energy itself. While I am more of a fan of nuclear power, as it is cleaner and more efficient(And can reliably produce 100% of the energy needed), i'm more than willing to endure slightly higher energy prices, when the outcome is going to be both cheaper and cleaner energy in the long run, as exporting both wind turbines and energy will more than likely reduce energy prices in Denmark. It is also far more unlikely to lose power completely, when the power produced is based on the weather.
I really did enjoy this video. You can not underestimate the power of the wind. It can be 24/7. Yes expensive but in the long run, it will pay for it's self. I do enjoy this channel, and your first video really did hit home on global warming. Sorry, I never did get your name, but thanks again, Steve..
Everything we do has positive and negative results. But it's about staying honest and seeking towards best practise that evolution occurs. Look how far the industry has come already. And I am sure at some point the "Investment" will pay off. I don't know enough of course - but grateful that you have found yourself educated - and shifted - through the process. 🌟
it may well be that it makes sense to use an anemometer for electricity but now it's like that without stable electricity from another way of getting power, you won't be able to use wind energy it can be used when there is someone who can hold electricity (EL) from the mains e.g. from water, coal, oil or anything else that can do it
All countries must do what is best and for Denmark it is investing in wind energy, for Norway it is hydro, Spain solar energy and France nuclear energy. The price of wind energy is falling slowly and now it is profitable and in most cases cheaper than other forms of energy
I don’t know if it was intentionally left out, but I’m rather intrigued in a counter argument to nuclear since you brought it up. It seems safer than ever and capable of producing more power with less risk to ecosystems
I’m leaning towards yes, but in the long term as technology and the grid develops. And as long as it’s used in combination with other sources of renewable energy.
Regarding storing energy, there are ways. Power to X(extract hydrogen from water, or other similar processes) and make central heating based on large accumulators, to be heated doing night and high wind periodes. regard to the wind profit, i think your right. but the issue is everyone wants more wind power but nobody wants 200+ m high wind farm close to where they live. also a big issues are that alot who are vocal for this live in urban centres and not in rural areas. I think wind power in combination with solar power in desert like areas, and fisson and hopefully fusion will be the future solution. My biggest issue atm is solar panels put up on perfectly good farm land (could write a book of how many bad effects this have globally). Btw i am a Danish engineer in the offshore energy industry.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I like alternative forms of energy, yet it is a scam if you only want a single form for the future. There should be wind, solar, hydroelectric, coal, gas, oil, and nuclear. Allowing for the energy grid to be powered by a diversification of different sources would make it stronger, and enable it to be more versatile. Additionally I imagine that in the future there will be new forms that have yet to be developed that will add to the system.
Coal!? No thanks. With wind, solar, hydroelectric and nuclear, we don't need to burn any fossil fuels in the near future. Let's ween ourselves off of that please.
This except pretty much every single house (at least in the area I'm from) could be fitted with solar panels and batteries to become 95% energy independent. That way energy would be produced on site and we could majorly cut down on grid losses. This would make overall energy production more efficient and the grid could be used exclusively for backup and industrial/dense residential needs for the few places that couldn't be self-sufficient via solar.
You are right in This is also why Denmark has created Energinet to distribute electricity around northern Europe which connects hydropower for Norway and Sweden wind power from the Netherlands, Germany, England and Denmark
Electricity produced by water turbines or Windmills is by far the most green electricity. People often forget that burning natural gas still produces co2. Only thing you burn that is totally green is hydrogen.
Not true ! Once in a while, there is no sufficient wind for weeks. Yes ! It actually hap- pens, in this wind blown country ! Last time it happened, the prices for gas (the Rus. Ukr. war) went through the roof. Which created a rible effect, because there are many different ways to warm up houses, hot water etc. But they A L L got expensive. Which again sparked a further inflation.
@@petersoerent2554 The numbers don't lie. Search the report at energinet. Be that as it may some days wind are 150% of Denmarks' energy and overall it contributes to 40% It's not like it's the only clean energy. We have sun power and water power, bio gas and bio mass. Yes gas prices went up because they are fossil fules dependent on hostile nations - so let's not have those? And we managed much better than our less green neighbours after the russian war. The plan now is to convert wind energy into hydrogen so we can store the energy and use it in ships which make up most of Denmark's fossil fule emmissions. Even if you don't believe the numbers - when was the last time you were out of power at your house ?
As a former student on Tvind,it was NOT a cult ,and it was not only for trouble kids ,there was a school under tvind call småskole ( smallschool ,that was for trouble kids ) then there was highschool .It was for 20+ age ,and then there was efterskole ( dont know the english words for it ) it was for kids from 15 too 18
There's another reason why we are building in the North Sea, because waters are rising and we want to save our coastlines and we need to know how the waters react to bad weather and the fields will be able to give us good warning.
The land RISE is about 1mm per year in Skåne, and has been since the last ice age. 100 years ago we had rivers reaching long into the land. Now not so much. The idea/model/fear that this all is going to change fast is based on Faith/guesswork/climate models.
@@andersemanuel faith, no. Guesswork, maybe an educated guess. Climate models, yes models created by scientists who have a greater understanding of the world than _you._
@@DennisEldrup det ved du godt. Hvor tit har vi ikke haft stormflod. Timer til at reagere kan afgøre gigantiske summer i forsikring, at familier har et hjem de kan vende tilbage til efter højvande og beredskabet kan supplere med ekstra opbakning til den i forvejen etablerede sikring af alle ramte kystområder.
As it is now, wind energy has no cost in denmark. We use alot of other energysources like burning of trash or natural gas, which is sustainable, but alot more expensive. So on a "good day" where our eind grids produce excess energy, the electricity bill is practically free.
Almost all wind farms are practically bankrupt but they stay in business due to subsidies and inputs of taxpayers money. When the wind blows, the electricity prices go zero. When the wind doesn’t blow and the prices are extremely high, they don’t produce any electricity. This must be the most stupid business model ever. If it wasn’t for the subsidies and the taxpayer’s money.
This is a great idea IMO and worth investigating and testing further. While there may be some problems associated with it, mention one energy source that does not have massive environmental problems and ramifications? IMO, wind, solar and nuclear are the best options we got. Nuclear is not as unproblematic as some want it to be, namely the radiactive isotopes are in fact rather hard to get and expensive, and building and commisioning a nuclear power plant is very time-consuming and expensive. On the plus side, France has tested it large-scale and it works. And Germany probably regret dismantling their nuclear power. But it is dumb to put all eggs in one basket as far as energy-solutions go. Always have backup-systems for redundancy. Solar and wind-farms look like great alternatives, and with AI control and more sophisticated grid control technologies, storage and directing the power to where it is needed is not as big of a problem as it used to be. The overwhelming benefit is getting rid of coal, oil and natural gas. We need to get that out of the energy supply. Because they are, environmentally, certainly the worst and only dishonest people like CEPOS and the American oil lobby and Bjørn Lomborg will oppose this fact by now. The whole thing with Russia, the oil cartels etc. also show that oil and gas is very expensive, and that the prices are NOT stable for these commodities either. Add to that CO2 and particle contamination and you got a loosing cause. I am concerned about how well wind mills can get recycled for their materials for future electronics / other wind-mills.
I agree with your analysis of wind energy. I believe wind energy will be a vital energy resource in the future. But our current implementation is far from ideal. Some wind installations will be very profitable due to wind availability, grid location, and robust turbine design that lasts a long time with minimal maintenance. Many other wind installations will fail for these same reasons. Also, wind and solar need to be paired with both medium term cheep grid storage and 100% backup power, likely provided by fossil fuels, for wind and solar to be effectively integrated into the grid at large scale.
I lately heared the blades made of composite material have quite some abrasion, which means that the woods or sea arround it get polluted with that material. I think its fiberglass and plastic. And they know it, wooden blades are in developement but far from working.
But even if it has bad sides, what is our other option for energy? In the long run I see nothing else that makes sense without combining it with wind in the north
I like your content, but because you are now using clickbait to generate traffic I am unsubscribing. I am totally done with "You won't believe ..." or "We did X and watch what happend!" Stop.
I'm a bit torn on this subject. I posted a poll last week and asked whether I should make my titles/thumbnails less clickbait-y and 37% said yes. I think that's quite a high figure, but it's a minority. My goal is to be "smarter" with how I create curiosity but that's a process that will take some practice. The particular challenge with this video is that the topic is quite different from what regular viewers might expect from this channel. I was personally fascinated by the topic but I can imagine that not everybody in the audience shares that curiosity about wind energy. But I thought that if I can just get a few seconds of your attention (by making you click on a video while you don't know what the topic is about) I can convince you that it's really interesting and worth your time. Thank you for your feedback and I'll continue to reflect on this.
Unlike the US we have a grid able to transport huge amounts of electricity, so if the wind doesn't blow, Norway and Sweden delivers power from water or nuclear Power (Sweden), also from Germany, so we are in a sweet spot.
So the unreliable wind energy of Denmark is reliant on Hydro, Nuclear and Gas/Coal power from neighboring countries? Doesn't sound like something that can scale very much.
@@Mosern1977 Relying on several sources, instead of just one or a few, is rather Smart I would think? We are also trying to make power from the waves in the Ocean or the different temperatures, when drilling a hole in the ground, with a compressor to make high temperatures from that. It may become a Seller as the Wind Power has already been for Denmark? When others also found out that Windmills may be a fine idea, we had the Technology to sell!
@@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188 - Denmark is a small country, so the instability can be absorbed by the countries around. However, it doesn't scale. And wind also has a very bad business case. When there is a lot of wind, there will be too much power generated, and the price will therefore be very low (might even be negative). So you don't earn money selling the power. When wind doesn't blow, the price will be high, but you will have nothing to sell. The only good thing about wind-power is that it can be used to convert government subsidies into private money in a tax haven. For that it is great.
@@Mosern1977 At intervals we have "free" electricity and only pays for the transport, because of a huge/too much production. They are able to stop windmills also, if needed. But it isn't tax-supported much by the State and may only be free income very late in the period of a particular windmills life span. Too late for me as an investor to consider supporting at least. Finn
@@Mosern1977 All wrong. No subsidies here in he UK but new wind is being installed. Unfortunately the previous government gave huge tax breaks so that oil and gas companies could search for and develop oil and gas that we dare not use without cooking our descendants.
Coupled together with Sweden and Norway, Denmark has the ability to really benefit from the cheap and quick grid balancing services provided by both country's hydropower plants. No more need for natural gas or coal as a backup source. Power prices will just fall. And with the advent of direct-drive wind turbines, there's no need for a gearbox.
Interesting, I was not aware they were direct drive. I understood synchronization is important for grid stability and a regular speed, but perhaps this is changing.
@@piezobarrel4750No, nothing is changing. You still need the synchronisation with the inverter. Direct drive only takes away the gearbox. (Less maintenance)
Stating that the wind industry is strugeling to be profitable could be misinterpreted like wind power is not profitable. That is far from the truth. Wind energy is by far the chepest energy in the grid. The industry is only strugeling because of the firce competition from China.
Yes, we pay fees. Because the government can't put up taxes much more, so they put fees on many things here. BUT. The fees helps building and maintenance the roads, free school, education, hospitals and much much more. Actually people here don't mind paying taxes and fees. Because the day you get sick and need hospital or maybe loose your job, the government helps you. So if you live on the streets and don't have a home, it's Manly your own fault somehow. It's not that easy to understand if you haven't tried it.😅😅😅
I am interested in the cost of construction and maintenance and how long these last. It can not be cheap or easy to replace large parts like gearboxes and blades. I would think nuclear would take less space, not need such a large grid with, storage and probably last longer.
Hey, great video. If you want to find a green energy lie, try looking at the use of wood chips in our power and heating plants. The wood chips are imported from many places around the world and aren't as green as they want us to believe.
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denmark didn't start building windmills for green energy, yes some politicians say that now. But the real reason 50 years ago was the oil crisis, denmark needed a energy source to gather themselves.
Oil was found in the North Sea in the 60’s and first danish offshore oil field started production in 1972. Denmark have been a net oil producer for a long time exporting oil. The wind adventure was started by idealists wanting a cleaner world.
My concern is bird migration. Offshore wind is a great idea but we need to be mindful of unintended consequences. Amarillo TX has wind farms as far as you can see in every direction, but they don't have any birds anymore.
Cats kill 2.4 billion birds a year, glass in buildings 600 million, cars 200 million and wind turbines 400 k. It does worry me slightly on the migration patterns, but nothing I won’t bet on!
one would think that placing a massive array of essentialy hollow pipes with a mechanical rotating turbine on top would create a resonating sound vibration travelling at extreme length underwater would make oceanic life a living hell , especially whales that can detect sound travelling nearly halfway around the planet..but that's something the 'green friendly' parties should worry about, right? .. right?
I’m sorry to say that you have forgotten a huge downside to windmills and that is the destructions on the frequency in the grid? It is a major problem in the eu as an electrician I’m helping to build the energy equipment to help level out the very high peaks of frequencies via load banks. which cost the electricity bills to go up and nobody knows about it. all are willing to talk about it. it’s such a shame that we don’t have a nuclear power plant because that will help frequency to go to normal, but the danish people voted against it long time ago
The biggest problem is that we cant store it, if it get to windy we have to stop them, even Germany pays us to stop them so they can get rid of ther extra energy.
Yeah it's all a nightmare with this wind turbine energy. We better go on using cheap polluting oil energy - right ? Or even better : use the much cheaper coal energy we have. That will definately save the planet !
One of the reasons for that is that wind power has had a lot more time to be tested and advanced compared to tidal power. Tidal power is also a lot newer and we haven't found a good, stable and cheap design yet. Not like we have with wind. But as people continue to test and work in time tidal power will come.
I'm not sure wind turbines are something to be proud of, there are huge and numerous downsides, I'm prepared to be convinced. You didn't bother to do that.
Dane here: the price we pay for electricity is mostly dominated by taxes and secondly by speculation on the energy market. Weather does have an effect, but nothing that comes even close to speculation.
An estimated 5.13 million (3.63 to 6.32) excess deaths per year globally are attributable to ambient air pollution from fossil fuel use and therefore could potentially be avoided by phasing out fossil fuels.
bornholm isent artificial island lol. there live around 40000 ppl on it, the biggest city is rønne, and yes they make them in rønne but just to correct you.
Such large and complicated projects will never succeed in Denmark and always fails if started - simply due to political disagreements on every minor detail.
I live in Denmark and worked with wind turbines in the 80s when the largest turbines were 150 Kw. Back then, the problem was to get rid of the wind turbine blades and it still is. They are still buried as waste, no one talks about wind turbines using diesel generators?? The Danish wind turbines on Danish soil are owned by German and Swedish electricity companies (private equity funds) with roots to the elite. The sea wind turbines are largely owned by the Danish state. But as a citizen, the price of electricity becomes expensive for each turbine that comes, our property prices are rising and I suspect that the reason is that large private equity funds buy land for wind turbines and solar cells. Homeowners are offered DKK 1 million above the valuation price to sell their property to these Energi parker. I have gone from being a supporter of wind turbines to being a big opponent. It is a money machine that lives off the climate crisis and is paid for by the ordinary consumer, without benefiting the climate pressure. The wind turbine blades crumble and pollute the sea, the blades are still buried and no one looks at the climate pressure it costs in the lifetime of the turbine in relation to the energy the turbine produces.
Exactly, its a racket pure and simple and it runs on the fear created in the media. They wash money out of the tax bases of Denmark, thats all it is. We already have the technology to make cheap energy in abundance its called nuclear and oil/gas from Russia but clearly some powerful interests doesnt want us tapping into that. Besides, wind turbines is killing so much bird life and sea life whales especially, that im amazed that its still legal(and non recyclable like you said) Solar isnt much better, filled with toxic substances like mercury and lead. All you need is one storm and it all goes into the soil. Everything in the nuclear process is not only recyclable but there's a market for the radioactive "waste" in the medical industry. There's no excuse for what they're doing. They are creating articificial scarecity to enrich themselves bleeding the public(whoever they are).. Its one big scam.
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Could you make more history videos like you did before like the Vietnam war and more
wtf
like wtf
why not use nuclear power
like bro?
There are so many negative factual wrongs here .
1/You say that a Chinese company is DESIGNING a windmill the size of the Eiffel Tower. Denmark have a windmill higher than the Eiffel Tower raised and in PRODUCTION. THAT are one of the mills the worlds largest transition project are going to be based on.
2/I have dived around n offshore windmill. It´s just like diving at a coral reef. It functions as a nursery for the bottom of the aquatic marine life. When you dive you can hear a large ship before you can see it. Windmills do not disturb underwater. First the foundations gets seaweed and mussels and then the life begins to flourish. Seaweed and mussels EAT CO2. One of the issues with burning fossil fuels besides the catastrophic build up of CO2 in our atmosphere are that the same happens in our heating oceans at a delayed rate. The foundations thus will have a both local and global positive effect in removing the excess CO2 just as it will have a positive effect on fish stocks. By making the offshore windmill farms "safe heavens" they will provide positive replenishment of local and global fish stocks that are under pressure. Result thus will be more fish for the fishermen where they fish because as the protected fish gets bigger they will seek to deeper waters, where the fishermen roam.
3/Windmills produce the CHEAPEST emission free electricity, far cheaper than nuclear power AND it can be raised many times faster AND it does not come will the risk of disastrous accidents nor a 100.000 year demand of storing and protecting the waste,
4/How on earth can you claim that 98% of the materials come from China? That are factually not the case. Denmark´s neighbouring countries have both iron and steel production and that constitutes the vast part of the material. On top Denmark´s neighbouring countries are leading the world in fossil fuel free steel production,
5/ Hoe many birds live at sea? There are no Albatrosses in Denmark. Birds have eyes and I have seen seagulls bobbing around the offshore windmill farms close to Copenhagen. They learn they are there and do not fly into them. They though love to take advantage of the many small fish attracted by the foundations and enjoy the easy food there as well.
6/The energy island concept truly are a gamechanger. The worlds largest transition project away from fossil/nuclear fuel will transition 220 million Europeans to emission free electricity in just a decades time. On top the worlds largest green hydrogen production. A small one digit percentage of this hydrogen will be used to ensure emission free energy also when the wind does not blow. Thus NO batteries demanding rare earth materials that CHINA actually controls 90% of world market off THUS the combination of windmills and green hydrogen production makes a nation independent of BOTH Russian and Chinese moods.
Thus this concept also comes with energy production security stability AND national security stability and enhancements!
7/ It´s not just Denmark (and Belgium, Netherlands, Germany that also are part of the worlds largest transition project) that have good conditions for cheap offshore windenergy. The large nations with highest greenhouse gas emissions per caita, Australia, USA, Canada also have great conditions to utilise this solution and NOTHING but themselves prevent them from doing so. The three named nations today use taxpayer money on SUBSIDISING fossil fuels and that truly are insanity and unsustainable considering we have an atmospheric carbon content of over insane 420 when it SHOULD be 220 PPM. Basically all nations with sea access, except at a band closest to Equator, will be able to take advantage of these emission free cheap solutions.
The climate change effect we see with increases in draughts, floods, hurricanes etc etc. every year comes with higher and higher costs in human suffering, negative financial consequences and instability. The last 5 years we have seen us going from being in the meridian of projected climate consequences to the very highest end of projections, even exceeding them on some points. It are only a matter of short time, can be next year, in 5 or maybe 10 if we are "lucky" where we will see several large farming nations harvests fail at the same time caused by climate extremes and that can easily cause famine for 100 of millions of people or worse. Offshore windmills are the perfect answer to create bulk amounts of emission free energy. WE cannot afford NOT to take this opportunity to make a fast and cheap transition to emission free energy while the world still stands.
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in denmark we got a app that shows how cheap it is, many hours a week its free. so theres that.
You are missing some information in your video at the end with the islands.
The main reason for building the islands is to build a hydrogen plant out there so that all the excess energy is converted into hydrogen that can be burned later when there is not so much wind
the island in North Sea is also used as a meeting point for the energy grid and is connected to Belgium, Holland, Germany and Denmark and a hydrogen line will also be made to Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. when the project is finished
You are missing some extra information ;) These hydrogen plants are to be used in the container industry, more specifically Maersk who are creating a new fleet of dual fuel engines that should be able to run on Methanol.
@@Andreassoegaard Yes, I know there has been talk about it, I just can't seem to find it in writing, that's why I didn't mention it :)
That is nothing but an idea and will never happen
@@Andreassoegaardinteresting DK and Maersk... Are you using North Cotean slaves to build these ships as well.... Burnring them alive when/if they don't work the "real" Danish way!?!?
This IS what you did a few years ago I'm aware.... 😰
@@Jetmab04 close in South Korea
Wind + Solar + Nuclear is the way we solve our energy issues.
If you have nuclear, you don't need wind and solar. Just make nuclear cheaper.
@@Mosern1977 the world could run off of effecient nuclear.
@@Mosern1977 thas only looking at numbers tho. Lets not forget the inherent risk of nuclear, and the long lifetime of nuclear residues. It can be key buy thats why we should couple it with wind and solar
Yes, we need to keep nuclear around, who knows we might need it for space travel. Here on earth, the issue is base load. The way things look is that base load is not as important as it has been. Wind and solar energy will become super abundant. Battery storage continues to develop. Long distant transport of electricity (HVDC) will eliminate intermittency. Actually, advanced geothermal could out compete nuclear.
Just wait for solar to become God
Denmark doesnt pay higher power prices because of wind. The price of power in European countries is ironically tied to the price of gas regardless of what the primary generation source is. They pay higher prices primarily due to tax. The UK also pays higher prices despite generating huge amounts of power from wind, but the reason is different, they pay more because of their privatisation economic model - private sector price gouging, fees, subsidies and inefficiencies.
Nice with some real information
It has indeed bit us that electricity price is tied to gas prices. When the gas prices rose a few years ago the electricity followed despite we had more that 100% covered by wind at good windy days. Well, at least it was still produced by winds and not fossil gas.
Absolutely. My heat pump produces less than half the CO2 per kwh of what a gas boiler would and that ratio is geting better as more renewables are coming online. Owing to the scandalous way in which the electricity price is linked to that of gas I actually have to pay more per kwh than if I used gas. If wwe are to take global warming seriously that has to change. I am not on the gas main so I used to have to use oil so it is not so bad.
@@snydogpisYou just forget that "100% covered by wind" is straight up nonsense in financial terms. Sure, you can get your power cheaply from wind - sometimes. But would you really want to keep that deal if the trade off was no power on not so windy days, or waiting for industrial production to shut down on normally windy days before you get electricity? The price of power from source which doesn't deliver permanently cannot be calculated without including the price of the backup plants, which at this point means 100% backup capacity because no viable storage form exists.
@@poulwinther the offshore wind farms will have mills that is around 250 m high, there is always wind up there. same time in denmark we wont just be depending on winds but also of sun cell farms, and talk about of mini Nuclear power, that we are researching to make safer than those in use atm. actually they have proto type of such that can fit in a 40" container and deliever power to a medium danish city, meaning around 500 000 households.
also off shore means that water heat and cool with the earth in shores, it naturally makes vinds, either forward of off land due to the cold and warm, as all know that had Geografi in schools that when hot air is less dens than cold, and the hot will be push upward and then cold drags in.
mean normal wind will be created off shore.
Less than 6,000,000 people and living the nightmare of Republicans in a social democracy using the free market to control most things. Yet Denmark has invented LEGO, wegovy, Mærsk, Vestas, Novo and many more.
Creativity and willingness to build a company works well in a country where nearly everyone are economically safe throughout their lives.
Social mobility allows Denmark to utilize the skills of Danes from lower class backgrounds. We get the best of the best, because we have a greater talent pool.
You forgot Novo
USA and Denmark are very different countries and both Republicans and the Democratic Party are totally wrong about how we are both parties are noticing like what we are In Denmark the social Democrats are very hard line on migration, especially illegal migration, we don’t allow people to live illegally in Denmark, we are not like the Nazis so the government doesn’t register your skin color 😂 there are no black or white danish only Danish ethnicity, which only means one of your parents or both was a danish citizen when you where born = Danish citizen and ethnic Danish, if you’re adopted from Chad by Danish parents you automatically become a citizen and ethnic Danish.
Almost everyone in the work force are members of corporatist Unions the same with the employers they have there own unions.
Denmark of course doesn’t have a government set by law minimum wage, because that’s what fascist do, but because our market is much more free the the USA protectionism market, the private union’s set the wages and working conditions because the market knows better than the government what’s the right wages.
We don’t give harmful chemicals to children suffering from gender dysphoria, who are treated with psychiatric therapy, and of those who have it before puberty after puberty 2/3 has found comfort in their genetic gender, try to imagine the USA are castigating children who have a severe mental illness which 2/3 can get better without harming them like the Democratic Party wants, no we definitely have not in common whit people who for no scientific reason, or medical reason are castigating children and they are probably bragging about their inhumane treatment of those children who are the most vulnerable. Hop those responsible will get held accountable soon
Quick question: How did we invent Wyoming? just curious ... :)
I think you are wrong about the price of wind power compared to other sources. As far as I know, wind power has a total cost of less than ,25 dkk/kkWh, at the mill, while traditional nuclear power costs more than ,75 dkk/kWh at the power plant. Considered that a Nuclear power plant can deliver power on demand, this is not so bad everything considered. But it raises some questions about nuclear plants ability to turn production up and down fast enough, so that nuclear power does not hinder the use of cheap wind and solar energy. And what is the production price of nuclear power, if they have to compete on the Nordic energy marketplace Nord Pool? They would have to shut down nuclear capacity in long periods of the summer, where there will be a surplus of wind + sun. Then I think the production price/kWh would rise considerably.
the price of electricity in Denmark just now (today at 17:30 ) is 0.0238 DKr/KW = approximately 0,0035 $ then you add what it costs to use the grid and the tax and that adds up to 1.39 DKr/KW ≈ 0,20 $/KW
Today the wind is blowing and the prise of electricity falls
And so what, transport prices and various taxes makes it super expensive.
@@mammasut8280 Yes, the power itself is almost free, but the infrastructur and taxes are what drive up the cost. At time of speaking (12:50), the power cost is aprox 1.13kr, roughly $0.17 and if you remove taxes and transport from the price it is actually so low that it's technically negative (but I can't get a more accurate price than -0.00kr), which means that right now we are only paying taxes and transport.
At around 14:00 (2PM) the prices are projected to fall to -0.02kr, that is, the price of wind will fall so low that every kW/h is subsidized with 0.04kr (or $0.006), not much, but hey free energy is free energi ;),
At that point in time however terrifs, taxes, infrastructure etc will bring the price up to 1.12kr ($0.17), which still isn't bad, I mean sure it's a far cry from the roughly $0.2 that people in the US tend to pay, but our infrastructure is in way better shape and I can't actually see if the US prices include taxes tarrifs etc
So the wind producers make no money when the wind blows? And when the wind doesn't blow, they also make no money?
Wow - what a business model.
@@mammasut8280 uhh? Okay. If you live in a country with lower taxes it won't be as expensive then.
@@mammasut8280 You didn’t read what was written, 1.39 DKR was including all.
And you don’t know what you are talking about, green energy is target for fewer taxes and wind energy price is relative to wind - the last years we had days with free power, only to pay distribution costs :)
Onshore wind is cheaper than natural gas. Offshore wind is about 2x as expensive as onshore wind. At 8:52 you said that offshore wind is 3 times as expensive as natural gas, but the internet says it's about 1.4 to 1.8 times as expensive.
I bet pollution from coal and gas does more harm to birds than wind turbines do.
Not to mention Nuclear Waste, which is normally wiped below the carpet, but will be a problem for our children for many hundred years
Onshore wind is NOT cheaper than natural gas. I bet you are not an Energy Engineer and have no idea how perfected scrubbers on Coal Plants or the use of Natural Gas has minimal impact on the environment. Further, you said nothing about Nuclear Power... the cleanest, more power for the buck, efficient power source known to mankind.
@@stephenresler Clean while being operated, as any other heat source, but leaving the most absurdly poisonous waste as a result of this production!!! Come back when you have found out to neutralize the waste, as the wings from the Wind Mills! We still have many years of waste from our Nuclear Research Station at Risø to get rid of!!!
Though we in Denmark never have built Nuclear Plants, we had one of the most famous Theoretical Nuclear Scientists, Nobel Prize Winner: Niels Bohr!
He also ended up participated in the US Manhattan Project, as a Jew.
@@stephenresler Natural gas and coal still sucks.
@@stephenreslernuclear is by far the most expensive. Clearly you are not an engineer so stop spouting lies. Onshore is now cheaper than gas having dropped 70% in ten years.
I had a Danish neighbor living next door to me in Cambridge, MA USA in 2012. He was the most beautiful guy I have ever met! He made me a homemade meal and also greeted me and welcomed me to the community! I only know his first name: Seth and I wish someday to meet him again....
And here in Palm Springs, CA USA we have a lot of turbines and it has become part of the landscape and artwork here.
I doubt even a single person in Denmark is named Seth.
@@DennisEldrup I'm not sure why you doubt me. There is a Seth out there who is from Denmark...who was my neighbor in Cambridge, MA in 2012.
@@DennisEldrup Sure, It's an uncommon name. But, maybe this Seth was/is half English? Maybe?
@@DennisEldrup Officially there are 57 with the first name "Seth" living in Denmark ( updated 2024 Danmarks statistik ).
@@angelvaldez8048 According to "Danmarks Statistik" there are officially 57 with the first name "Seth" living in Denmark (2024).
Denmark really want to be a wind bender
We already are. :)
The Avatar beats earth, water and fire benders!
Such a great video and it opens up for tons of new ideas and new perspectives and it’s a great project that’s going on and a big thanks to for sharing this video with the whole world 💕 Thank youuuu and thank youuuu
0:07: The TVIND windmill near Ulfborg. Yeah!!
You say that a Chinese company are DESIGNING a windmill the size of the Eiffel Tower. Denmark have a windmill higher than the Eiffel Tower raised and in PRODUCTION. THAT are one of the mills the worlds largest transition project are going to be based on.
Larger doesn't always mean more efficient brother xD
@@lester8403 That can be true but point were that he pointed to China. I think it should be very clear that the worlds most productive and advanced windmills are being produced in the free world, not China. The cheapest means of bulk energy production now are windmills, not just the cheapest emission free bulk energy but cheapest, period. Many nations are stuck in old established systems and downright subsidise fossil/nuclear fuel in 2024 and that´s bonkers to put it mildly. The production output from the windmill made in Denmark, higher than the Eiffel tower, demonstrates it are the highest producing windmill in the world.
@@Mike-zx1kx "in the free world, not China" 🤣 I don't know why you'd reveal your biases like this.
@@Photosounder Because it should make a difference for people of morals and ethics if they are on the side of dictators violating UN charter, international law, human rights and rules of war or not. When it are mentioned, wrongly, that largest mills are made in China, it were important to me to underline that it were a wrong statement. The same manufacturer, Vestas, that are HQ´ed in Co-founding NATO nation Denmark, consistently for last 4 decades been beaten world record after world record when it comes to windmill productivity and ability to also place such with high reliability at sea. I hope my explanation makes it clear why it are not a revelation as such but a point I want to stress. Nations like Australia, USA, Canada have optimal conditions for creating cheap bulk emission free energy this way and important they know they can do so via both best and reliable free world suppliers that wont bring them in trouble should any potential global insecurities materialise in the future.
Wind power is great and all but is temperamental. Green energy as a whole is great but other than hydropower which is relatively consistent and geothermal which isn't being focused on nearly enough, the 'big hitters' of wind and solar are simply too unreliable to be the primary energy source. We're trying to solve this issue with energy storage, but as you've said in this video we're not eve close in that regard. The problem is not with green energy itself but rather the obsession with it(and picking the 2 worst options: wind and solar) at the expense of other energy sources. Germany's anti nuclear crusade for example led them to actually bring coal power back, yes coal! Nuclear certainly has its issues with waste, but it's still by far the lesser evil compared to what it brings to the table. The problem is that nuclear energy has all been all but abandoned in the west, especially Europe, in favor of green energy to the point where Asia(and Russia which is partially in Asia) is now the leading force behind nuclear power rather than the west. Wind and solar energy simply can't be the primary source of energy until storage technology catches up, and we're decades away from that if not more. In the meantime we're all suffering because the greens decided nuclear power is as bad as fossil fuels for some weird reason and use fearmongering: be it Chernobyl or Fukushima, to justify their retarded stance, thus we all lose.
Just in time for my morning commute! 🚃 Great video as always😃
3:55 The school teacher still very much the most wanted man in Denmark.
It’s not correct that «we have no way of storing the energy from wind». Battery parks are ot the only way. Almost next door is Norway, with huge hydro pwer resources. Through subsea HVDC cables it functions as Noethern Europe’s battery. There are several cable to Denmark, several to Germany and The Netherlands, and even one crossing the Noeth Sea to Britan
Norway's "huge hydro pwer resources" aren't pumped. They can't store energy from wind. Did you mean Norway can import Danish wind and stop its hydro? Exporting energy to a country who can turn off some generators works but you can't 'get it back'. Storing national-scale energy from wind needs conversion to fluid (cheap to store) energy medium. Many scientists suggest hydrogen. Methane is less efficient but already has matching applications (like power stations) and is a stepping stone to e-fuels, and Europe already has a huge capacity gas network. But at present it's sadly largely true "we have no way of storing energy from wind".
@@trs4u What? Norway has hydro plants that pump water into reservoirs and "save" the energy for when it's needed or gets more expensive. It's actually quite simple and super smart. Use all the unused electricity at night where it's practically free, or the excess production from solar in the summer etc. and pump water into reservoirs. Let it flow back down through turbines when needed/when it's expensive again. Pretty much a battery. Not super effective, but it doesn't have to be, when the thing that fills it up is free.
@@DennisEldrup Norway's hydro is mostly not-pumped, more than 30GW of it, which means they can't store energy supplied from some other source. They have only about 1GW of pumped hydro, which is probably used for peak fill-in. Pumped works 'like a battery', natural hydro doesn't
Lack of efficient storage space for energy, is why the plan is to make hydrogen when there is a surplus of energy, and then use it when there is a lack of energy.
Thanks for the awesome content and all the amazing videos!!
You say electricity from wind is expensive, but as a dane I can say that our prices are lowest when the wind is producing the most of our electricity, sometimes (if you take away the taxes) the price is negative and you get paid to use the power…
And you cant see that is fucked up??
Imagine you would have to pay to go to work sometimes??
Yes if you remove the taxes of fossil fuels EVs can go to the junkyard.
Mogens Amdi Petersen is still wanted on an international arrest order to this day
he is 90 years old, might as well help him do coffin shopping lol
He hides in Mexico in a Twind owned top Luxury Facility for High Members of the Sekt, I think to remember?
Half of the ELECTRIC energy demand in Denmark, NOT half of the energy demand.
True and that’s why there is a need for much more electricity production so that there is enough for Power2X as well for shipping etc.
Context is important. Obviously the demand in this video was in reference to the electrical power grid. Demand was clearly not referring to the food calories you eat to power your body or the sun rays needed to power your garden's photosynthesis.
@@DemPilafian Wtf are you talking about? He obviously meant heating etc. It's an important distinction to make.
The system cost for wind power is very high, since you also need to completely fund what ever is supposed to deliver electricity when the wind is not blowing.
Yes it gets annoying to sleep hearing wind is green and cheaper -- if you remove the taxes, Santa clause and dont consider your salary.
The price just keep going up and i think we have the highest prices together with Germany in Europe!! We just had a dunkelflaute where it went over 10 kr kWh.. so whether wind is 0.75 kr if you remove all the expense for removal and scraping, the subsidiaries that ex Vestas had and tried to not pay taxes.
It still get a power grid that seems expensive and Yeah power maybe cheap at 3:00 - but what does it help when you need to cook food when its 4 kr? Like those who just bought a solar system for 150000 kr -- oh i have free power. . Yeah ok. Must be nice to earn that much money..
I learned so much ty.
Im from Denmark and I might get a job at Siemens Gemase. My dad worked there where they only has 800-1200 people at the company in the 90’s.
Its high paid job while having no degree.
Modern nuclear reactors are pretty safe from what I've heard with a ton of redundancies in place but they're also likely targets for saboteurs and a few well placed missile strikes that manage to get past the air defenses or even a bomb could very well send the plant into a meltdown and make a wide zone around the plant irradiated and uninhabitable just like with Hiroshima and Nagasaki because US military so carelessly threw atomic bombs above those areas back when they had serious beef with Japan.
The Chernobyl disaster was because of an early reactor design that wasn't as safe and didn't have as many redundancies as a modern nuclear plant would have today.
Dude i fucking love being Danish and being completely fucking disconnected from reality, never leaving my little internet bubble, then seeing on my youtube recommended "Denmark is doing X thing" and i'm just sitting here going "we're doing that? cool." i love it here
As a dane. Yes we are doing that. But thats only because i lyttede to a old man in thy vindmølle park.
Som dansk fisker er jeg både for og imod, som han selv siger i videoen the fisherman is f***ed selvom fiskeriet er et af Danmarks største erhverv, så på grund af den negative medie omtale som kun er 20% korrekte data og "research" er politikerne ved at ødelægge fiskepladser med disse vindfarme, som højst sandsynligt vil være endnu mere skadende for fiskebestandene i Nordsøen end fiskeriet nogensinde har været, men så længe dem der sidder på borgen kan virke grønne og miljørigtige så er det ligegyldigt hvad sandheden egentlig er, og hvis alle disse farme er komm op om 30 år, så findes der ikke dansk fiskeri længere, Mette smadrede mink industrien men de alle smadrer fiskeriet 😔😔
Minister Svend Auken played a big role building up this green industry.
Stones in earth, liquid salt etc etc is planned as batteries.
Who knows.... maybe surplus windenergy could be used to raise water in waterbatteries around Europe in grid.
Yes his daughter also wrote the wef paper -- you will own nothing and be happy . They are stalinistic tyrants!
Most energy companies in Denmark set their prices to vary based on the price of the energy used. Let's say that you spent 10KW thursday, and the energy used, the company bought wednesday at a high price due to weather or having to buy a different source. That price then reflects on the consumer bill. You can also, as a consumer, fix the price for 6-12 months at a time, where the price doesn't fluctuate based on the variation in price. The fixed price is typically a bit higher, but averages out to be about the same annually, since you can predict seasonal event and winds fairly accurately.
Energy might be slightly expensive in Denmark, and in the past few years, unforseen circumstances has made it even more expensive. So the government stepped up and actually provided tax-free financial assistance to those most affected by it. Students, elderly, people making under a certain amount of money, people with high rent compared to income and such. They did the same with the inflation crisis and passed a law about it in 2022. Just this month for example, the government paid my rent, because I was one of the "lucky few" eligible.
I believe it was last year, the government even fixed the energy price by law for 6 months, to make it the same as the EU average(price was at the time 3x-6x EU average if I remember correctly), due to the Russo-Ukraine conflict raising energy prices dramatically. Even so, the taxes on the energy have consistently been higher than the price of the energy itself, so the taxes on energy is the cause of the higher price of energy in Denmark, not so much the price of the energy itself.
While I am more of a fan of nuclear power, as it is cleaner and more efficient(And can reliably produce 100% of the energy needed), i'm more than willing to endure slightly higher energy prices, when the outcome is going to be both cheaper and cleaner energy in the long run, as exporting both wind turbines and energy will more than likely reduce energy prices in Denmark. It is also far more unlikely to lose power completely, when the power produced is based on the weather.
I really did enjoy this video. You can not underestimate the power of the wind. It can be 24/7. Yes expensive but in the long run, it will pay for it's self. I do enjoy this channel, and your first video really did hit home on global warming. Sorry, I never did get your name, but thanks again, Steve..
There is a windmill in thyborøn, which is 280 meters high
Everything we do has positive and negative results.
But it's about staying honest and seeking towards best practise that evolution occurs.
Look how far the industry has come already.
And I am sure at some point the "Investment" will pay off.
I don't know enough of course - but grateful that you have found yourself educated - and shifted - through the process.
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it may well be that it makes sense to use an anemometer for electricity
but now it's like that without stable electricity from another way of getting power, you won't be able to use wind energy
it can be used when there is someone who can hold electricity (EL) from the mains
e.g. from water, coal, oil or anything else that can do it
All countries must do what is best and for Denmark it is investing in wind energy, for Norway it is hydro, Spain solar energy and France nuclear energy.
The price of wind energy is falling slowly and now it is profitable and in most cases cheaper than other forms of energy
I don’t know if it was intentionally left out, but I’m rather intrigued in a counter argument to nuclear since you brought it up. It seems safer than ever and capable of producing more power with less risk to ecosystems
Loved this video, Guus. Do you think the advantages of this kind of energy outweigh the disadvantages?
I’m leaning towards yes, but in the long term as technology and the grid develops. And as long as it’s used in combination with other sources of renewable energy.
high quality and deep investigation
Regarding storing energy, there are ways. Power to X(extract hydrogen from water, or other similar processes) and make central heating based on large accumulators, to be heated doing night and high wind periodes. regard to the wind profit, i think your right. but the issue is everyone wants more wind power but nobody wants 200+ m high wind farm close to where they live. also a big issues are that alot who are vocal for this live in urban centres and not in rural areas. I think wind power in combination with solar power in desert like areas, and fisson and hopefully fusion will be the future solution. My biggest issue atm is solar panels put up on perfectly good farm land (could write a book of how many bad effects this have globally). Btw i am a Danish engineer in the offshore energy industry.
Only negative, what a Masterpiece. Imagine what the world could do without you
Good video
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
I like alternative forms of energy, yet it is a scam if you only want a single form for the future. There should be wind, solar, hydroelectric, coal, gas, oil, and nuclear. Allowing for the energy grid to be powered by a diversification of different sources would make it stronger, and enable it to be more versatile. Additionally I imagine that in the future there will be new forms that have yet to be developed that will add to the system.
Coal!? No thanks. With wind, solar, hydroelectric and nuclear, we don't need to burn any fossil fuels in the near future. Let's ween ourselves off of that please.
This except pretty much every single house (at least in the area I'm from) could be fitted with solar panels and batteries to become 95% energy independent. That way energy would be produced on site and we could majorly cut down on grid losses. This would make overall energy production more efficient and the grid could be used exclusively for backup and industrial/dense residential needs for the few places that couldn't be self-sufficient via solar.
You are right in This is also why Denmark has created Energinet to distribute electricity around northern Europe
which connects hydropower for Norway and Sweden wind power from the Netherlands, Germany, England and Denmark
@@caldepen372why?
@@ccdsds3221 because burning coal for example is messing up the planet for our children. Science tells us this…
Electricity produced by water turbines or Windmills is by far the most green electricity. People often forget that burning natural gas still produces co2. Only thing you burn that is totally green is hydrogen.
You should dig into PTX technology, that is strongly attached to the offshore windturbines. PTX for Power to X.
Denmark has the most stable energy supply with fewest disruption hours in the EU. The problems to wind energy is talk more than reality.
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@@petersoerent2554 The numbers don't lie. Search the report at energinet.
Be that as it may some days wind are 150% of Denmarks' energy and overall it contributes to 40% It's not like it's the only clean energy. We have sun power and water power, bio gas and bio mass.
Yes gas prices went up because they are fossil fules dependent on hostile nations - so let's not have those?
And we managed much better than our less green neighbours after the russian war.
The plan now is to convert wind energy into hydrogen so we can store the energy and use it in ships which make up most of Denmark's fossil fule emmissions.
Even if you don't believe the numbers - when was the last time you were out of power at your house ?
Are you high or just silly?
Yeah thanks to hydro electricity from Norway
Denmark is completely dependent on their neighbours for their electricity grid to even function.
That report was from 2009... 15 Years ago... Things have moved on a lot since then
As a former student on Tvind,it was NOT a cult ,and it was not only for trouble kids ,there was a school under tvind call småskole ( smallschool ,that was for trouble kids ) then there was highschool .It was for 20+ age ,and then there was efterskole ( dont know the english words for it ) it was for kids from 15 too 18
The issue with brainwashing is that most people never recognize they have been washed.
There's another reason why we are building in the North Sea, because waters are rising and we want to save our coastlines and we need to know how the waters react to bad weather and the fields will be able to give us good warning.
The land RISE is about 1mm per year in Skåne, and has been since the last ice age. 100 years ago we had rivers reaching long into the land. Now not so much. The idea/model/fear that this all is going to change fast is based on Faith/guesswork/climate models.
@andersemanuel don't you want to know if stormfloods are coming during bad weather? It's not guessing, and you don't know what I am talking about.
@@andersemanuel faith, no. Guesswork, maybe an educated guess. Climate models, yes models created by scientists who have a greater understanding of the world than _you._
I hope you're joking. What would a warning help if it's even an hour? And you honestly think there's nothing else monitoring all this shit?
@@DennisEldrup det ved du godt. Hvor tit har vi ikke haft stormflod. Timer til at reagere kan afgøre gigantiske summer i forsikring, at familier har et hjem de kan vende tilbage til efter højvande og beredskabet kan supplere med ekstra opbakning til den i forvejen etablerede sikring af alle ramte kystområder.
This idea blows.
The islands planned in Denmark (Power to X) is a very exiting project, maybe eliminating the need for newclear power in the future
As it is now, wind energy has no cost in denmark. We use alot of other energysources like burning of trash or natural gas, which is sustainable, but alot more expensive. So on a "good day" where our eind grids produce excess energy, the electricity bill is practically free.
Almost all wind farms are practically bankrupt but they stay in business due to subsidies and inputs of taxpayers money. When the wind blows, the electricity prices go zero. When the wind doesn’t blow and the prices are extremely high, they don’t produce any electricity. This must be the most stupid business model ever. If it wasn’t for the subsidies and the taxpayer’s money.
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This is a great idea IMO and worth investigating and testing further.
While there may be some problems associated with it, mention one energy source that does not have massive environmental problems and ramifications?
IMO, wind, solar and nuclear are the best options we got.
Nuclear is not as unproblematic as some want it to be, namely the radiactive isotopes are in fact rather hard to get and expensive, and building and commisioning a nuclear power plant is very time-consuming and expensive. On the plus side, France has tested it large-scale and it works. And Germany probably regret dismantling their nuclear power.
But it is dumb to put all eggs in one basket as far as energy-solutions go. Always have backup-systems for redundancy. Solar and wind-farms look like great alternatives, and with AI control and more sophisticated grid control technologies, storage and directing the power to where it is needed is not as big of a problem as it used to be.
The overwhelming benefit is getting rid of coal, oil and natural gas. We need to get that out of the energy supply. Because they are, environmentally, certainly the worst and only dishonest people like CEPOS and the American oil lobby and Bjørn Lomborg will oppose this fact by now.
The whole thing with Russia, the oil cartels etc. also show that oil and gas is very expensive, and that the prices are NOT stable for these commodities either. Add to that CO2 and particle contamination and you got a loosing cause.
I am concerned about how well wind mills can get recycled for their materials for future electronics / other wind-mills.
I agree with your analysis of wind energy.
I believe wind energy will be a vital energy resource in the future. But our current implementation is far from ideal.
Some wind installations will be very profitable due to wind availability, grid location, and robust turbine design that lasts a long time with minimal maintenance. Many other wind installations will fail for these same reasons.
Also, wind and solar need to be paired with both medium term cheep grid storage and 100% backup power, likely provided by fossil fuels, for wind and solar to be effectively integrated into the grid at large scale.
And newer in my 60 year lift time have electricity been so expensive after windmill 400 dkr more pr month
I lately heared the blades made of composite material have quite some abrasion, which means that the woods or sea arround it get polluted with that material. I think its fiberglass and plastic. And they know it, wooden blades are in developement but far from working.
Wind mills keep getting taller. Hundreds of feet in the air. 🤣🤯
But even if it has bad sides, what is our other option for energy? In the long run I see nothing else that makes sense without combining it with wind in the north
Given the recent hybrid warfare in baltic sea, I worry that the off-shore plants would be relatively easy to sabotage
I like your content, but because you are now using clickbait to generate traffic I am unsubscribing. I am totally done with "You won't believe ..." or "We did X and watch what happend!" Stop.
exactly.
Where is clickbait
Don’t listen to this person. They don’t know RUclips algorithms.
For every sub like this lost, you will get 3 more by using best practices
RUclipss algorithm disagrees with you unfortunatley.
I'm a bit torn on this subject. I posted a poll last week and asked whether I should make my titles/thumbnails less clickbait-y and 37% said yes. I think that's quite a high figure, but it's a minority. My goal is to be "smarter" with how I create curiosity but that's a process that will take some practice.
The particular challenge with this video is that the topic is quite different from what regular viewers might expect from this channel. I was personally fascinated by the topic but I can imagine that not everybody in the audience shares that curiosity about wind energy. But I thought that if I can just get a few seconds of your attention (by making you click on a video while you don't know what the topic is about) I can convince you that it's really interesting and worth your time.
Thank you for your feedback and I'll continue to reflect on this.
Nuclear Energy done right is more green than wind turbines
Wind is just one option to use for power. Small modular Nuclear Energy could also be used.
Unlike the US we have a grid able to transport huge amounts of electricity, so if the wind doesn't blow, Norway and Sweden delivers power from water or nuclear Power (Sweden), also from Germany, so we are in a sweet spot.
So the unreliable wind energy of Denmark is reliant on Hydro, Nuclear and Gas/Coal power from neighboring countries? Doesn't sound like something that can scale very much.
@@Mosern1977 Relying on several sources, instead of just one or a few, is rather Smart I would think? We are also trying to make power from the waves in the Ocean or the different temperatures, when drilling a hole in the ground, with a compressor to make high temperatures from that. It may become a Seller as the Wind Power has already been for Denmark?
When others also found out that Windmills may be a fine idea, we had the Technology to sell!
@@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188 - Denmark is a small country, so the instability can be absorbed by the countries around.
However, it doesn't scale. And wind also has a very bad business case.
When there is a lot of wind, there will be too much power generated, and the price will therefore be very low (might even be negative). So you don't earn money selling the power.
When wind doesn't blow, the price will be high, but you will have nothing to sell.
The only good thing about wind-power is that it can be used to convert government subsidies into private money in a tax haven. For that it is great.
@@Mosern1977 At intervals we have "free" electricity and only pays for the transport, because of a huge/too much production. They are able to stop windmills also, if needed. But it isn't tax-supported much by the State and may only be free income very late in the period of a particular windmills life span. Too late for me as an investor to consider supporting at least. Finn
@@Mosern1977 All wrong. No subsidies here in he UK but new wind is being installed. Unfortunately the previous government gave huge tax breaks so that oil and gas companies could search for and develop oil and gas that we dare not use without cooking our descendants.
Coupled together with Sweden and Norway, Denmark has the ability to really benefit from the cheap and quick grid balancing services provided by both country's hydropower plants. No more need for natural gas or coal as a backup source. Power prices will just fall.
And with the advent of direct-drive wind turbines, there's no need for a gearbox.
Interesting, I was not aware they were direct drive. I understood synchronization is important for grid stability and a regular speed, but perhaps this is changing.
@@piezobarrel4750No, nothing is changing. You still need the synchronisation with the inverter.
Direct drive only takes away the gearbox.
(Less maintenance)
Stating that the wind industry is strugeling to be profitable could be misinterpreted like wind power is not profitable. That is far from the truth. Wind energy is by far the chepest energy in the grid. The industry is only strugeling because of the firce competition from China.
Yes, we pay fees. Because the government can't put up taxes much more, so they put fees on many things here. BUT. The fees helps building and maintenance the roads, free school, education, hospitals and much much more. Actually people here don't mind paying taxes and fees. Because the day you get sick and need hospital or maybe loose your job, the government helps you. So if you live on the streets and don't have a home, it's Manly your own fault somehow.
It's not that easy to understand if you haven't tried it.😅😅😅
Did the CEPOS report really call the danish oil industry "non-subsidized"? :'D
The cassette sound is a little loud
I am interested in the cost of construction and maintenance and how long these last. It can not be cheap or easy to replace large parts like gearboxes and blades. I would think nuclear would take less space, not need such a large grid with, storage and probably last longer.
Hey, great video. If you want to find a green energy lie, try looking at the use of wood chips in our power and heating plants. The wood chips are imported from many places around the world and aren't as green as they want us to believe.
That happens everywhere. Government needs to be chasing around cheating businesses, but we know how good government is at anything
so norway because of oil dont need this kind of things?
They have tons of hydro power lol
@@Thurrock91 ya completely forget about that
Norway also is about to prohibit cars from running on fossil fuels
@@HamidSadeghi.And they get excess wind power from Denmark and store in their hydro dams.
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3.02 Woodstock Christiania🌈Copenhagen Denmark🇩🇰 I have been "bartending" this bar for 28 years now. Some of us are still alive.. 👊🫶💪( Woodstock the Last Hippie Resort)
The pub started 50 years ago, when hippie people began to expect to be able to BUY beer in the bar (1974 Feb 15. (Says the old people)) The pub Woodstock always celebrates its birthday on February 15.
Next time 51 years....
denmark didn't start building windmills for green energy, yes some politicians say that now. But the real reason 50 years ago was the oil crisis, denmark needed a energy source to gather themselves.
Oil was found in the North Sea in the 60’s and first danish offshore oil field started production in 1972. Denmark have been a net oil producer for a long time exporting oil.
The wind adventure was started by idealists wanting a cleaner world.
My concern is bird migration. Offshore wind is a great idea but we need to be mindful of unintended consequences.
Amarillo TX has wind farms as far as you can see in every direction, but they don't have any birds anymore.
Fish love structure and safety from predators.
Safe space for fish = more fish = better fishing
Turbine blades are like giant samari blades of death to seabirds.
Cats kill 2.4 billion birds a year, glass in buildings 600 million, cars 200 million and wind turbines 400 k.
It does worry me slightly on the migration patterns, but nothing I won’t bet on!
What do you do with a broken windmill - just abandon it?
Humankind created the problem of energy dependence. Now its time to find and develop energysources that wont run out or ruin the world in the future.
Could've really used some talk/stats on Wind vs Nuclear. Promising it in the intro and then not delivering is a bit eh.
nuclear power would be a way better and cleaner for us in Denmark, but wind energy just feels better to people
one would think that placing a massive array of essentialy hollow pipes with a mechanical rotating turbine on top would create a resonating sound vibration travelling at extreme length underwater would make oceanic life a living hell , especially whales that can detect sound travelling nearly halfway around the planet..but that's something the 'green friendly' parties should worry about, right? .. right?
Are they building in others countirs water?
Amdi isnt the good guy... but then again Israle can thank "angry mutash man" for even existing
Hey are you want a thumbnail editor I want to edit you thumbnail ❤❤ atleast reply
Wind and solar is cheaper than fossile electricity
No mention of the recycling issues with wind turbines. Poorly researched imo
looks promising
I live on my sailboat, and I don't care. I produce my own electricity and I will just sit back and enjoy watching the world burn.
And when you need spareparts for your boat it is made with energy that you DON'T produce but ok maybe you don't want that, good luck😉
I’m sorry to say that you have forgotten a huge downside to windmills and that is the destructions on the frequency in the grid? It is a major problem in the eu as an electrician I’m helping to build the energy equipment to help level out the very high peaks of frequencies via load banks. which cost the electricity bills to go up and nobody knows about it. all are willing to talk about it. it’s such a shame that we don’t have a nuclear power plant because that will help frequency to go to normal, but the danish people voted against it long time ago
The biggest problem is that we cant store it, if it get to windy we have to stop them, even Germany pays us to stop them so they can get rid of ther extra energy.
Thought this would be about their new border controls on the denmark-sweden border 😅
at moment it been shot down no invest
Yeah it's all a nightmare with this wind turbine energy.
We better go on using cheap polluting oil energy - right ?
Or even better : use the much cheaper coal energy we have.
That will definately save the planet !
I have been charging my Tesla for free the last 4 month, because of sun and wind.. so its only expensive when the sun and wind production are low
Why don't we use the tidal currents at sea to generate electricity?
I know that in Skagen they are in the process of testing and making electricity from waves and current
One of the reasons for that is that wind power has had a lot more time to be tested and advanced compared to tidal power. Tidal power is also a lot newer and we haven't found a good, stable and cheap design yet. Not like we have with wind. But as people continue to test and work in time tidal power will come.
My fellow Doggerland fans: wya?
I'm not sure wind turbines are something to be proud of, there are huge and numerous downsides, I'm prepared to be convinced. You didn't bother to do that.
im form Denmark and I din't know this😂😂
Dane here: the price we pay for electricity is mostly dominated by taxes and secondly by speculation on the energy market. Weather does have an effect, but nothing that comes even close to speculation.
An estimated 5.13 million (3.63 to 6.32) excess deaths per year globally are attributable to ambient air pollution from fossil fuel use and therefore could potentially be avoided by phasing out fossil fuels.
bornholm isent artificial island lol. there live around 40000 ppl on it, the biggest city is rønne, and yes they make them in rønne but just to correct you.
Such large and complicated projects will never succeed in Denmark and always fails if started - simply due to political disagreements on every minor detail.
I live in Denmark and worked with wind turbines in the 80s when the largest turbines were 150 Kw.
Back then, the problem was to get rid of the wind turbine blades and it still is. They are still buried as waste, no one talks about wind turbines using diesel generators?? The Danish wind turbines on Danish soil are owned by German and Swedish electricity companies (private equity funds) with roots to the elite. The sea wind turbines are largely owned by the Danish state. But as a citizen, the price of electricity becomes expensive for each turbine that comes, our property prices are rising and I suspect that the reason is that large private equity funds buy land for wind turbines and solar cells. Homeowners are offered DKK 1 million above the valuation price to sell their property to these Energi parker.
I have gone from being a supporter of wind turbines to being a big opponent. It is a money machine that lives off the climate crisis and is paid for by the ordinary consumer, without benefiting the climate pressure. The wind turbine blades crumble and pollute the sea, the blades are still buried and no one looks at the climate pressure it costs in the lifetime of the turbine in relation to the energy the turbine produces.
Exactly, its a racket pure and simple and it runs on the fear created in the media. They wash money out of the tax bases of Denmark, thats all it is. We already have the technology to make cheap energy in abundance its called nuclear and oil/gas from Russia but clearly some powerful interests doesnt want us tapping into that.
Besides, wind turbines is killing so much bird life and sea life whales especially, that im amazed that its still legal(and non recyclable like you said) Solar isnt much better, filled with toxic substances like mercury and lead. All you need is one storm and it all goes into the soil. Everything in the nuclear process is not only recyclable but there's a market for the radioactive "waste" in the medical industry.
There's no excuse for what they're doing. They are creating articificial scarecity to enrich themselves bleeding the public(whoever they are).. Its one big scam.
How typical is it on RUclips that everyone who comments on a video thinks they know something