[hecticskeptic]

Renewables is code language mostly for industrial wind turbines.... all one has to do is look to Ontario, Canada to see what a total total disaster these things are. Ontario now has the highest electricity rates in North America, businesses are falling all over each other to exit the province, property owners living next door to these monsters are finding that no one wants to buy their properties, you don’t actually get any power out of the things (what you think you gain in electricity you actually lose due to a reduction in efficiency in other generators who now have to accommodate a cyclical supply), the low frequency and sound amplitude modulation is enough to drive you off the deep end etc. etc. etc. Did I say that they are a total disaster?

[nascarnation]

Does Canada have the crony capitalist gravy for “big wind” like the USA? That’s the real reason for building wind turbines here.

[mylife]

And who the hell wants to climb the thing change the oill grade to a lighter oil in the dead of winter so it does not eat itself alive when the cold wind blows?

I guess we could warm the oil, but that requires debendable electricity...

[digger48]

property owners living next door to these monsters are finding that no one wants to buy their properties,

Local non-leaseholders here in central IN have seen a 25-40% decrease in property value after the 500' tall monuments to Gaia went in.

A second farm planned for our area died when the Zoning Board forced the foreign owned developer to provide a Property Value Guarantee. They contended there were never, ever any instances of property value loss anywhere Industrial Wind turbines were sited, but they sure packed up when they were told to stand by that claim.