Posted on 06/20/2018 8:14:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The number-one challenge of our times is to separate the wheat from the chaff. To assist in this task, we are blessed with more information than ever before – but we are also simultaneously burdened with more misinformation than any prior generation has ever had to deal with. We look back and wonder how trusting citizens were so easily victimized by snake oil salesmen, but today, in the golden age of cons, we are being duped on a daily basis.
As a representative matter (and a national issue of great significance), let's look at what's happening with industrial wind energy.
The primary reason why wind energy has been a success has nothing to do with wind energy! Instead, its success is 100% due to the fact that wind energy proponents are masterful lobbyists. If one reads "The Business of America Is Lobbying", it's apparent that the wind industry has used every trick in the book, and then written some of its own.
For example: Wind lobbyists have successfully infiltrated our language with totally inaccurate and misleading terminology, such as "wind farms" and "clean energy." Neither exists.
For example: Wind marketers have successfully portrayed their product as "Free, Clean, and Green" – despite it being none of those. The reason they have coined these malapropisms is simple: those who control the words control the narrative.
For example: Wind salespeople have successfully convinced financially distressed communities that hosting a wind project will be a economic windfall – even though numerous studies from independent experts indicate that the net local economic impact could well be negative.
For example: Wind-peddlers have successfully sold technically challenged local representatives that the wind-developer is their friend and business partner – even though these sophisticated and aggressive entrepreneurs typically look at these rural people as rubes
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Let me restate that extraordinary finding: gas can produce less CO2 than wind energy does!
Is the success of wind energy due to the sophistication of the con artists they've engaged or to our gullibility? In either case, the takeaway is that lobbyists are not reliable sources of information, especially when it involves significant money, our health, or our national security. The bottom line is that wind energy is palliative pabulum, not suitable for prime time.
*Some sample studies and reports about the Wind+Gas package: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven.
Here in Texas, there are actually cases where the cost of energy is negative, at times of low demand (like the middle of the night) but high wind: some producers get charged to feed power into the grid!
Wind energy key point No. 2: the capacity of any wind-electric project is always ZERO, since “capacity” is defined as the amount of power that can be generated at any time to meet a demand. And with wind that is sometimes there, sometimes not, that is zero.
Wind power is a highly efficient means to pump money from taxpayer’s and ratepayer’s pockets into those of the mill builders, landowners, banksters, and politicians. It is a terrible way to generate reliable, cost-efficient energy.
Wonder why that fire resembles a fuel fire? because those damn things require a ton of grease a year minimum! Where does grease come from?
When politicians and lawyers are leading the charge and not engineers, it is a sign that it is a scam.
I know some that are prone to create “magical wind”, but only when they eat the magical beans.
When these things catch fire they go fast. Anyone in one at the time does not stand a chance.
I live in Arkansas and it was just announced by the Public Service Commission that they have given approval to a massive Wind Farm to be built in Oklahoma, one of our Utilities will be buying the power from it. I am guessing there are massive government incentives for this, otherwise how can it work at all. I want to know how many birds and other animals will be killed to make this work?
And that's only because the power generated there is often uneven, and unpredictable. But there's a simple solution. Just operate one of these in front of every wind power station. (Why do I have to think of everything?)
Big Blow convinced our local pols to allow a 145 unit farm in our County. Then tried a second in at us, resulting in every local politician who supported it getting voted out at the next election.
We convinced the Board of Zoning Appeals to slap a Property Value Guarantee on them for the non lease holders affected. Even though they claimed Country property values wouldn’t be affected, the ran back to Germany with tails between their legs.
One of the original Commissioners who approved the first farm now travels the state and provides testimony to other areas considering allowing Big Blow, telling them of what a mistake it was.
They absolutely lied about the benefits to our community and tore up local family and neighbors relationships.
And yesterday, during near record heat an AC usage, not a single one of the 500 foot tall Monuments to Gain were putting out a single watt of electricity, being a net drain on the grid, as they are constantly searching for a breeze
One of their favorite sayings was “We’re harvesting the wind”
Bullsquat...they’re harvesting the taxpayer subsidies
In PA our local utility is forced to buy electricity from a wind farm at prices 3 times higher than what it costs them to produce power.
What we really need to do is mount tiny windmills in front of politicians’ mouths, to harness the mighty winds that issue from those orifices.
Ever wonder why, when you drive through a wind farm, about half of the machines have blades that are not turning? The truth is that there are frequent breakdowns that are constantly requiring maintenance and repair, leading to extraordinarily high maintenance costs.
Im sure they are set up with auto lubers that have some capacity. I wager the thick black smoke is the shellac insulation on the generator windings and the all the light weight carbon fiber and fiberglass parts.
I was on a few diesel-electric propulsion ships. Lots of heat can be generated in a very short time. Its called ‘bursting into flames” for a reason!
So the distressed communities should only agree to pay the wind companies a certain percentage of the net savings on any equipment installed as the way to finance the purchase. The fact that the wind companies wouldn't agree to that is a tacit admission that they're being deceptive (aka lying).
Wind energy key point No. 2: the capacity of any wind-electric project is always ZERO, since “capacity” is defined as the amount of power that can be generated at any time to meet a demand. And with wind that is sometimes there, sometimes not, that is zero.
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