Posted on 03/03/2024 8:18:59 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
There’s no such thing as a wind or solar ‘farm’, just an ugly industrial site
In a story filled with all the standard climate alarmist narratives, USA Today recently reported on the rising movement by local governments in the United States to refuse to permit unwanted wind and solar industrial sites in their jurisdictions.
After setting the stage by parroting the Biden administration goals of “100 per cent clean energy by 2035, a goal that depends on the building of large-scale solar and wind,” USA Today points to the reality that such big, intrusive, ugly, and destructive industrial sites have been rejected by twice as many county governments as approved them. The writers complain that the rejections come about by some combination of “outright bans, moratoriums, construction impediments and other conditions that make green energy difficult to build,” but don’t go on to describe why the rejections are taking place.
Simply put, these huge industrial sites – we simply must stop using the friendly-sounding term “farms” to describe them – create all manner of negative consequences for local communities. Consequences like loud noise from wind turbines, hundreds of dead birds and bats sprinkled across the countryside, thousands of acres of productive farm or ranchlands taken out of production for many years if not permanently, spoiled views, enormous “graveyards” filled with 150-foot blades and solar panels popping up all over the place, and impacts to local wind and weather patterns that are only now beginning to be understood.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Those consequences and more have become increasingly clear as time has progressed, and that is making it harder for developers to gain acceptance from the communities that would serve as hosts. Such pushback is likely to grow more strident in the coming years as it becomes clear to citizens that their state governments have failed to enact effective regulatory structures requiring timely and full retirement and remediation of these industrial sites when their useful life has expired. By that time, these sites will most likely have been sold off by the big developers who built them to smaller companies that will be unlikely to be able to bear the enormous costs involved in full removal and remediation.
But by then, it will be too late for the communities to protect their rights. The only real way to protect a city or county from these myriad impacts is to refuse to allow them to be built.
I've been arguing for ages that the companies that develop these industrial sites will be long defunct by the time the wind turbines are rusting hulks. The "wind farms" will have been sold and resold many times and nobody will want to on the hook for paying to remediate the sites. Within 20 years, we will have a million rusting wind turbine towers, failed generators, nacelles, and worn-out blades all over the land that cannot be economically torn down or recycled. There will be hundreds of millions of tons of concrete in the ground that cannot be dug up.
Environmental laws require you to post a surety bond before you open a new surface mine. That ensures the site will be remediated back to its original form after mining is completed. The same environmental laws should apply to wind and solar. These companies are getting a free ride so they can claim that they are economically competitive with conventional energy sources.
A conventional power plant is made mainly of steel and these are commonly torn down and the steel recycled. Sometimes plants are disassembled and then reassembled elsewhere. Decades ago, I worked on a used large industrial boiler in Durango, Mexico that had been purchased from a company in the USA, disassembled and rebuilt on the new Mexican site. That will not happen with wind turbines.
A few months ago we camped out in western Kansas. When I got up in the middle of the night to take care of my bodily functions, I was shocked to see red lights flashing in unison all across the horizon. Very creepy.
How horrible! Just wait 20 years when they are all dead, the owners long since filed Chapter 7, and they can’t even keep the red lights blinking.
Concrete is inert, artificial rock. Why would we want to dig it up? Give it 50 years and people be excited to find the relics and foundations of this useless econazi crap..
Well, I plan to be dead in 20 years too. And with Jesus.
The plan, if there is one, is to destroy all the conventional power possible and MAKE wind and solar the last man standing.
Nudge, Push, Shove. Guess where we are now?
Mankind has been using extensive solar energy for centuries.It powers our very bones. It’s called farming . Currently in Europe the elite are trying to drive farmers off their own land. Probably to seize that land for pennies on the dollar then resale it at a huge profit. The farmers are fighting back and putting on a very impressive resistance. Unless you get your news from alternative sources you probably have not heard about that.
As a kid, we would vacation in cabins on Georgian Bay, off Lake Huron in Ontario
It was idyllic. Absolutely quiet, broken only by the call of loons. sky filled with stars
Returned recently. If its not $2 million waterfront mansions from the long-standing Canadian printed-money property bubble, its the horizon both along water and on hillsides, defaced by hideous, blinking windmills as far as the eye can see
Kills birds. Lots of ‘em.
They’ve been doing it quietly, under the radar, for the past 10yrs. 75% of the population doesn’t even know it’s happening. Frog in the boiling pot...
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I have a huge Democrat cousin, all the kneejerk impulses and silly non-reasoning. Global warming coming, mail-in votes are good, etc. He says he’s not for open borders - but still votes Democrat. Hates Trump and the Republif*cks.
BUT does he drive an EV or have solar panels on his roof?? nope
I hope that today’s young kids realize the folly of what they are voting for.
“harvesting tax credits”
So THAT is why they call them “farms.” Now it’s all clear!
The farmer revolt has been front and center here on FR for a couple of years. But I’d wager 90% of Americans are unaware of it. Or of the nefarious schemes of the WEF and EU to crush farming.
It is the most utterly insane thing ever — eliminate our food supply to “save the earth.” There can only be one reason WEF and EU (and Ireland and the USA to a much more limited extent) are pushing this — to depopulate the earth.
“Kills birds.”
Anything that flies — birds, bats, and insects.
He should be wearing sackcloth, walking every, selling his AC and furnace, and eating bugs, roots and bark.
NONE of them walk the talk and none of them can think critically.
Are you able to get along with your cousin? Or do you two avoid each other?
He’s genrally a nice guy in person. Online, not as much. We don’t discuss politics.
This article is fron 9 years ago.
14000 Abandoned Wind Turbines In The USA
https://ontariowindaction.org/14000-abandoned-wind-turbines-in-the-usa/
Nudge, Push then Shove. I think it is a VDH line.
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