Thermal power plants are the dogs balls. Just add filters.
trolling in a renewable energy forum? You can lick the dogs balls and I'll enjoy the fresh breeze.
Coal, oil, gas... All renewable energy sources...
Renewable at 0.0001% of their current rate of consumption? Thats not renewable, sustainable, or representative of the value of the energy.
Wind turbines have 30% efficiency (max). Blades brake down in the strong wind (explode, is the better word for it). They disturb the wildlife (birds).
lets hold your hands on this one.
30% efficiency you say? That would be comparable to open cycle fossil fuel generation in operation or the common motor vehicle. And the 70% "losses" are just wind energy that wasn't extracted, while the combustion generation produces low grade heat which needs to be disposed of if there is no local market for it. 30% efficiency from a low grade and otherwise worthless energy source sounds like a fairytale, how could that be a negative?
Thermal power plants don't use internal combustion engines. What wasted heat? You do realise that the extra could be used for central heating...
Either you're trolling or you have a poor understanding of the english language. Internal combustion vehicles.....
and .....open cycle power plants....
both have efficiencies around 30%, which is considered a good effort approaching their theoretical maximums, just as with wind turbines.
And just to highlight it again
the combustion generation produces low grade heat which needs to be disposed of if there is no local market for it
Yes, co-generation/CHP is a much better use of combustion but the worldwide demand for it is very low with strong geographic and/or seasonal requirements. All power sources have their strengths and weaknesses, but efficient wind turbines are not a weakness of them.