Delingpole: Revealed – How Renewables and the Global Warming Industry Are Literally Hitler

breitbart.com ^ | 7/28/2017 | James Delingpole

[rktman]

Have you ever wondered what kind of sadistic, totalitarian mentality you might need to want to carpet the countryside with bat-chomping, bird-slicing eco crucifixes in order to save the planet from an imaginary problem?

This book, unearthed by David Archibald at American Thinker, offers a clue:

It’s by a Nazi inventor and industrialist called Dr. Franz Lawaszeck, whose proposed solution to Germany’s energy problems in the 1930s was the wholesale adoption of wind turbines.

In his book, he writes:

Wind power, using the cost-free wind, can be built on a large scale. Improved technology will in the future make it no more expensive than thermal power. This is technically and economically possible and opens up a quite new life-important type of power generation. The future of wind is no longer small windmills, but very large real power plants. The wind towers must be at least 100 m [330 ft] high, the higher the better, ideally with rotors 100 m [330 ft] in diameter. This kind of high cage mast is already built in the shape of high radio masts.

[rktman]

Paging algore. Pick up the white courtesy phone. Seems the nazis and their progressive thinking on the environment were well into gaia.

[Jamestown1630]

I hate these wind turbines; they’re killing enormous numbers of birds. But you don’t hear much from the ‘greens’ who cry over trees and go apoplectic over a snail darter.

[x_plus_one]

The illiterati that want wind turbines are blissfully ignorant of battery technology. Turbines don’t work 24/7 and batteries are expensive.

[JimRed]

I hate these wind turbines; they’re killing enormous numbers of birds. But you don’t hear much from the ‘greens’ who cry over trees and go apoplectic over a snail darter.

I have not noticed any lack of birds lately. The smart ones don't get chopped up, so the breed improves. And since green is the new red, Orwell's doublethink comes into play. If not for double standards, the left would have NO standards.

[StAntKnee]

I have some experience in power generation and distribution. One of the most stunning (rule-of-thumb) statistics I heard from a wind generation expert was this:

Wind turbines almost never generate at 100% their rated capacity. 80% percent of the day, they operate at 20% of rated capacity, and only 20% of the time do they operate at 80% capacity. Worst of all, at the hottest part and coldest part of the year when demand is highest for summer air conditioning and winter heating, the wind is least likely to blow, meaning wind turbines do not produce when they are most needed. And they never pay out their investment. No business could survive in the open market under such conditions.

The incentive for building wind turbines is government subsidy. When subsidies cease the alternatives are to raise consumer rates astronomically. Or cease operations.

Now. Just imagine an auto maker trying to sell you a car with a speedometer that pegs out at 100, but can never reach that speed while functioning at 20 mph 80% of the time.

The only word that serves is “Insanity.”

[KC_Lion]

[elpadre]

“...When subsidies cease ....”

How much, and how are, the wind turbines subsidized? I have read for years they are subsidized but never how much.

[Jamestown1630]

A lot of people living near them are getting sick, too. Some interests are calling it just a ‘psychosomatic’ anxiety-driven issue, but I don’t believe it:

https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wind-turbines-make-people-ill-fact-not-fiction/

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Any power system that makes you pay twice or thrice is just stupid. For wind to be reliable and dispatchable, you must pay for:
1. The wind turbine
2. The backup natural gas fired turbines
3. The energy storage (compressed air caverns and CTS; the batteries; or the pumped storage)

Each of these three independent systems requires capital, fuel (for the CTs), and lots of maintenance. It doesn’t require the talent of a rocket surgeon to figure out this isn’t cost-effective.

And the above doesn’t include the lost value of despoiled landscape, noise, and constantly blinking shadows within a half mile of the monstrosities.

[cymbeline]

“they’re killing enormous numbers of birds”

No more birds, no more turds and the greenhouse gas methane they generate. Or is it bird farts?

The turbine blades should be razor sharp so the birds die with as little pain as possible.

[Jamestown1630]

Lovely.

[43north]

The last time I observed a group of these monstrosities called “wind turbines” was along a formerly beautiful stretch of hills along the Columbia River. They despoil the view.

[Dr. Sivana]

The meaning of the word “literally” is literally being destroyed by misuse.

[Jamestown1630]

Interesting, from Merriam Webster:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally

[x_plus_one]

The brainlessness of white collar bureaucrats and pie in the sky politicians defies description.

[Dr. Sivana]

Interesting, from Merriam Webster:

Yup, and Shakespeare sometimes wrote lines with "disagreement of number of persons with verb". Tom Brady throws interceptions sometimes. Marshall Faulk occasionally fumbled the football. Babe Ruth struck out.

Twenty-five years ago, I was employed by a respected liberal arts college where the word "awesome" was routinely misused. Eventually, I printed the primary definition from a concise dictionary in 72 point type, followed by an admonition, and placed it in my cubicle for any visiting students to observe. By the time I left the place, I thought my work was done. How wrong I was. The misuse of that word has returned, like the demons in Matthew 12:45.

[Jamestown1630]

They’ll get over ‘awesome’, and come up with something else. At least it beats the non-word ‘groovy’ from my youth ;-)

(I remember the hippies always saying that everything was ‘beautiful’ or ‘fine’, whether it applied or not.)

And I’m grateful that we don’t hear ‘problematic’ wrestled into every other sentence anymore.

(I still lie in wait to murder ‘basically’, though...along with the ‘So’ that seems to start every sentence these days.

[Covenantor]

Outside the box Paradigm shift seems to have passed from the latest lexicon as well, thank goodness.

[Dr. Sivana]

I still lie in wait to murder ‘basically’, though...along with the ‘So’ that seems to start every sentence these days.

Some of my children's friends use "like" as a filler or as an all-purpose conjunction. I have to correct my children mercilessly when they pick it up and start to slip into that mode.

[Bob]

Outside the box Paradigm shift seems to have passed from the latest lexicon as well, thank goodness.

Don't worry - paradigm shifts have been superceded by synergistic opportunities for all stakeholders. :=)