As to your assertion that "WIND was a colossal failure last week", that's a Texas problem, not a wind problem.
For insight, here is how Canada sees wind power...
Wind turbines work hard in winter winds
Winter is high season for Canadian wind energy production. As many farmers and fishermen take a much-needed rest and begin to repair equipment and prepare for the next season, wind farms are harvesting as much power as they can.
While everyone settles in to their winter activities I wanted to give some insight into what wind turbines are doing during the short days ahead. Wind farm operators have gone to great lengths to conduct routine and unplanned maintenance throughout the slower summer months. The oil has been changed, bearings greased, blades repaired and major failures overhauled all in preparation for September. There are a few factors that boost the production of WTGs (wind turbine generators) as the season changes from summer to fall and on into winter. These are highlighted in this simplified equation for a wind turbine’s power potential.
The power available for a wind turbine = ½ x air density x swept area of the blades x wind velocity3*
So, the major players are air density, how big the diameter of the rotor is and how fast the wind is blowing. Since wind farms do not change the size of the blades on wind turbines from season to season I’ll focus on the other two, air density and wind velocity.
Air density goes up as temperature goes down. Those cold air molecules get packed closer together as they lose energy. It’s not really noticeable in everyday life but sailors, kite boarders, windsurfers and pilots will take this into account when they hook up their gear and put it to work.
At -1ᵒC and standard pressure and humidity the density of air is about 1.3 kg/m3. At 25ᵒC air density is around 1.2 kg/m3. Based on a typical 100-meter diameter rotor that’s going to cause about an 8 per cent increase in our power potential calculation above.
If nothing else changed this density effect translates into thousands of additional MWhs of clean electricity produced in Canada each winter.
Most modern wind turbines in Canada have a tower height of 80 meters. For the sake of our argument we’ll take data from a public database at a 10-meter height. In my home town of Windsor, Ontario the
average wind speed at the airport in August is 3.6 m/s. In January its 5.7 m/s. Taking the output for these two wind speeds we see a power increase of almost 60 per cent!
https://canwea.ca/omblog/wind-turbines-work-hard-winter-winds/#:~:text=Wind turbines work hard in winter winds. Winter,are harvesting as much power as they can.
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