Posted on 06/16/2013 8:11:02 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Today, The Sunday Telegraph reveals how many ''green jobs’’ the wind-power industry really generates in exchange for its generous subsidies. The figures show that for 12 months until February 2013, a little over £1.2 billion was paid out to wind farms through a consumer subsidy financed by a supplement on electricity bills. During that period, the industry employed just 12,000 people, which means that each wind-farm job cost consumers £100,000 – an astonishing figure.
Regarding costs, the £1.2 billion figure is merely a starting point. According to the Renewable Energy Foundation, the subsidy is likely to rise to £6 billion by 2020 if the Government is to meet its target of providing for 15 per cent of the country’s needs with renewable energy. Finding space to build the wind farms has created a veritable racket – landowners can expect to receive payments worth an average £40,000 a year for each large, three-megawatt turbine built on their land.
Wind farms can end up being surprisingly environmentally unfriendly, too. When the wind does not blow and the turbines fail to do their job, consumers have to fall back on the very fossil fuels that they were designed to replace. The result is that we come to rely on foreign imports of oil and gas that hit the household budget hard (domestic coal stations that ought to supply more of the demand have been closed in order to meet carbon-emission reduction targets).
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Wind not only blows, it sucks as well.
Wind Power promised NOTHING.....
.....POLITICIANS did the promising.
Windmills to generate electricity are ruining my “view shed”. LOL! Can I sue? Thankfully none around me yet. But, driving from FL to NV we saw some HUGE ones that were simply disgusting to see in the middle of NFW, Kansas stretching for miles. What a waste of time and money for little to no benefit for the general populace. I’m sure GE is making BIG bucks with subsidies and incentives. Zero income tax? Really? You go jeffy. You and your butt buddy king hussein.
Up until 2009, I sat in German for around fourteen years. Year after year....more windmill farms were being built. The thing that I came to realize from the German statistics and propaganda on the business....is that for every percentage point of use that you get out of them....you have to have that same percentage point existing somewhere else...ready to go with backup power. This means a nuke plant or hydro-electric plant, or coal plant. People are tossing billions for the wind power, but you have to sustain the back-up power as well. This makes the whole thing questionable.
The birds killed? Best not to mention that to the environmentalists. They’ve got one or two groups who are very anti-wind-power...strictly because of bird kill.
The maintenance? If you drive past a group of a dozen wind-mills daily....it’s about every six weeks that you see one of them down for maintenance. Don’t know the cost but it can’t be cheap. And those lightning strikes? Well...yeah, they do occur in extreme storms.
“They have taken other peoples money and built temples to their gods....”
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The liberals again have succeeded at their deceptive games.
It is the conservatives that allow themselves to be manipulated for fear that, if they don’t play along with the liberals, they will be looked at as socially unfriendly.
Liberals beat the conservatives like a drum, every time.
“Wind power has failed to deliver what it promised”
Since it was state of the art centuries ago it does what we know it can do - it is why the creativity of man moved passed it to newer technology and this whole earth/wind envirowacko movement is designed to stop mankind’s advancement.
“People are tossing billions for the wind power....”
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And SIEMENS and the politicians who are pushing the construction of these propellors are raking in those very billions.
The big problem is dissipation of energy. There was a recent study claiming this but I don’t have it handy to quote. Doesn’t matter, I’ve said the same thing for years.
It’s obvious, especially so on wind farms.
Basically as the wind spins the blades on the windmills it absorbs energy from the wind. That can have effects downwind of the farm.
The wind now has less potential energy and that can cause warming, cooling, less rainfall and other unintended and unforseen results.
It alters the weather downwind possibly and probably with devastating effects.
So much hot air...
Windmills near Tehachapi, CA interfere with the radar from Edwards AFB, causing problems with Edwards’ research.
Yes, but think of the possible comeback the buggy whip industry could have.
A proposed wind farm in Osage County, Oklahoma has applied for one of these “permits” saying their windmills would kill three eagles per year for 30 years.
Mandate by adding a amendment to every energy bill that every single federal government building must be powered exclusively by wind power by 2016...
If we’d use the shredded poultry downstream to feed the starving victims of the Baraqqi Depression, they would really pay off.
There is a movement afoot to look at LFTRs (molten salt Thorium reactors). With the help of a member from the House of Lords (Baroness Smith), the Weinberg Foundation has been started.
Weinberg is the father of LFTR reactors and was in charge of ORLN for over 15 years.
As the Environmental wackos say: “It was unexpected.â€
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