[rlmorel]

In Communist China, a country with little to no known or exploitable oil reserves to speak of, wind and solar power are great for them. (snicker)

The government can just take money and pour it into wind and solar projects.

Nobody complains.

If it is unreliable and doesn’t supply power, they can build coal power plants.

Nobody complains.

If the things break down, they fudge the books to show it didn’t. Palms are greased. Customers have brownouts and blackouts.

Nobody complains.

If it looks like crap and kills birds it makes no difference.

Nobody complains.

If people say they don’t want to live near them, their Social Credit Score is decreased, they are ineligible for well paying jobs, or they are thrown in prison.

Nobody complains.

It is the perfect solution for them, where there is no market to decide. The CCP decides!

[woodbutcher1963]

I read something just recently that over in one of the European countries they started painting ONE of the wind turbine blades black. That it reduced bird strikes by 70%.

It did not say anything about bats though. They are flying around at night, so they don't see anything when they get whacked by the big fiberglass blade.

[DIRTYSECRET]

You are so right. We could always sell them our coal. We got 400 years of it.