Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "This Crazy Wind Turbine May Be The Future of Wind Energy" video.

  1. Until wind energy is able to find cheap and useful ways of generating reasonable energy at a local level on-site, so basically, on your house, whiles not looking too out of place, then I don't see much of a future in wind energy apart from at massive scale. But it's likely that as renewable energy like solar keeps getting better and cheaper, as well as the same for battery tech, I suspect more homeowners and businesses would prefer to go off-grid and power their own needs, that's bad news for wind power, because as more of us goo off-grid, that makes solar far more useful compared to wind power and as more of us will likely do this as it gets cheaper and batter, it makes wind power unviable for small scale, for the moment, solar just works out cheaper, better and can be used at a small scale, that's the biggest weakness wind power needs to solve, otherwise, I feel they will get pushed out by the solar industry, apart from a few areas that needs big scale wind farms, but eventually if the tech gets good enough, most of us could go off-grid, solar is just so much better in that area over wind power. It's a shame really, because I would love to have a mix of solar and wind, they would complement each other really well, solar being good in summer or other days when there are not many clouds, wind being good during winter, nighttime and even summer if there are winds, winds tend to be higher in winter and at nighttime, so both complement each other really well, but when it comes to small scale wind power, there are too many scams, promising a lot more than what they deliver, the price point compared to solar is more expensive, and the real world energy generated is a fraction of what's promised, that is where solar is winning out, the power generated is more reliable and it can be used almost anywhere. The problem with going solar only, at least off-grid is that you need a lot more solar power that ends up being overkill in summer, you also need more battery capacity as a cushion, if you could have the two, solar and wind, that would reduce the batteries needed and also reduce the amount of solar panels needed as you would get a more consistent energy flow over the year, but for now, with solar getting so cheap, it makes more send to just have more solar panels.
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