Posted on 05/25/2016 1:50:08 PM PDT by Lorianne
Industrial Masters of the Universe have long since learned what to do when the fickle public embraces a product or concept that was previously anathema; they embrace it like an Anaconda getting ready to eat a pig. Thus they learned to love “organic” stuff, and “natural” chemicals and even “renewable” energy. As soon as they learned that customers would line up to buy $3 million turbines, that the government would subsidize up to 70% of the cost, and that the public would love them for doing it, it was game on. Now, however, accumulating costs and negatives are beginning to indicate game over.
For 20 years, the Masters of the Wind Universe have been frantically turning out War-of-the-Worlds-scale mechanical giants to decorate mountain ridges, farm fields and ocean expanses everywhere. On land, it takes a thousand tons of concrete and rebar to make the pad on which the 300-foot tower is set, to support the 60-ton generator nacelle and the three 200-foot blades weighing twelve tons each. Mountain ridges must be blasted level for the installations, major roads have to be built to them and then a major power line to transport the electricity to where it’s needed. But hey. The wind is free, all natural, even organic.
Industrial-wind flacks (in the business they’re known as windbags) trumpet the magic words: job creation, cheap electricity, no pollution. And the industry has been successful; 500 factories across the U.S. have made, and large crews have installed, 48,000 turbines in 39 states. For the last ten years, the industry has grown by more than 25% a year. The contribution of wind power to the electricity consumed by Americans has skyrocketed to, um, 1.9%.
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Carer’s wind wet dream failed when they discovered that even with government subsidies there was no profit when the machine broke down. Current windmills cause more pollution than a coal plant because they can not put out dependable constant power output and a coal fired plant pollutes quite a bit trying to do an emergency power up when the wind stops.
Says it all.
>>If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs
I am stealing that for my tagline. It describes every Progressive boondoggle ever invented.
In New England they’re known as Birdenators (”I won’t be back.”)
I was required to attend a monthly power engineering group for a sales position I once held. A company came in and made a presentation on solar farms. (They built them.) During the show I noticed the repair costs were not included in a roi projection. Also the same roi projection showed a major loss if the government well ran dry. When I asked about these two issues they looked at me like I was about to take a beating. I was surprised no one else in the room caught it as I was the only one with no college degree there. After that meeting I made a ton of new contacts and future sales.
Pigressive drones sincerely believed that wind power was free and green.
Comrade obama gave them eight years to get even dumber.
I caught on a few years ago when our local power company’s rate hike included a reason they were required to purchase wind farm power.
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