Wind is free. Harnessing it is expensive as hell, the means now being used are unreliable, and the collateral costs (having backup natural-gas fired or coal-burning powered generation plants) are simply duplication of effort that should have been put to use WITHOUT the primarily ornamental windmill towers.
As a virtue signal, they are a monstrous display of extravagance and yes, WASTE. They have limited lifetime, and are impossible to deal with as an eyesore that may stand for decades if not centuries.
We are getting close to the end of June here in central Texas (and everywhere else). Know what happens here in July and August? It gets hot, 99-103F hot. And, the wind stops blowing. That’s right, just when it’s hot enough to fry eggs on the sidewalk, the magic energy from wind generators stops.
There aren’t enough solar panels to cover the gap so we need power provided by coal, natural gas and nuclear plants.
Peak energy demand time and renewable energy falls flat.
Just imagine if we were a manufacturing economy and needed unlimited power?
What would we do???🤨🧐
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True. And has everyone seen the pictures of the vast fields of discarded and unrecyclable wind turbine blades that have to be buried?
As a virtue signal, they are a monstrous display of extravagance and yes, WASTE. They have limited lifetime, and are impossible to deal with as an eyesore that may stand for decades if not centuries.
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Touché! A succinct, informed, and artful comment on the idiocy of windpower. Just love the phrase "the primarily ornamental windmill towers. Yeah, as "ornamental" as a withered Christmas tree in August.
Keep up the great commentary, FReeper.