[budj]

Answer: NO.

[Brilliant]

Here is an interesting article I just read that talks about these issues as they affect Taiwan. The pols have their own fantasy world though.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/meet-engineering-professor-who-got-taiwanese-voters-support-nuclear-power?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2018-11-30&et_rid=370567557&et_cid=2520633

[rktman]

😹. Try to get them to consider all the nasties involved in making their cell phone, play stations, electricity or whatever......... If they believe that much, they should live it without their stuff.

[cyclotic]

This essay reminded me of I Pencil, the essay that told how incredibly complex the manufacture of a single pencil is.

It would be interesting to see the actual cost, all along the supply chain in dollars and human capital a single windmill is, along with the actual realistic power produced over it’s 20-25 year lifespan.

As with most envirowhacko projects, like electric cars, fiscal equilibrium is never reached.

[Inyo-Mono]

Bookmark.

[HotHunt]

Climate change....the Pied Piper of Goreism.

They'll follow it anywhere.

[Louis Foxwell]

Excellent review of the real world costs of wind turbines. Another less known fact is that each installation lasts just 20 years and must be completely dismantled, disposed of, and a new one constructed in its place. At a cost of several million dollars per windmill there is no cost savings over coal.
Wind power accomplishes its primary goal of reducing use of electricity by economically disadvantaged citizens. Carried to its logical conclusion we can be sure that a black market of local power plants will spring up to meet the needs of the poor.