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1 posted on 09/17/2017 11:29:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The Greens support wind power generally even though...

1. It creates an unnatural blight on the countryside.
2. It is not efficient.
3. It creates noise pollution and magnetic field interference.
4. It kills birdlife.


2 posted on 09/17/2017 11:47:17 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a Russian AK-47 and a French bikini.)
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To: Pontiac

Later


4 posted on 09/18/2017 12:24:03 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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To: Olog-hai

To fix the “problem” a helicopter is employed (burning aviation fuel) to spray hot water (which is heated in the frigid temperatures using a truck equipped with a 260 kW oil burner) on the blades of the turbine to de-ice them.

The aviation fuel, the diesel for the truck, and the oil burned to heat the water, could produce more electricity (at the right time to meet demand) than the unfrozen wind turbine could ever produce. (Before it freezes up again).

Apparently we need global warming to keep the wind gennies running to prevent global warming.

Thank goodness they didn’t waste the avgas and diesel on something silly like producing electricity.

7 posted on 09/18/2017 3:14:52 AM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
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To: Olog-hai

Saw an article not too long ago about the environmentally oriented Swedes burning trash for power. They even have to immport trash.

It is only a political position that wind power is out there. Long subsidized under PURPA and crosssubsidized by other sources internally, wind power is a bust.


9 posted on 09/18/2017 3:46:08 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: Olog-hai

Even Donald Trump tried to fight the spiteful installation of a wind farm next to his golf course in Aberdeen, Scotland, but the marxism is strong with those ones and he could not prevail over the OneWorlders.


17 posted on 09/18/2017 5:40:30 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: Olog-hai

Having studied IWTs at great length, I can truly say that I’ve not found one good thing to say about them. It would be good say that ‘at least they generate power’ which is something useful that we all need (and thus a trade-off for the things that are undesirable) but in the grand scheme of things, one can’t even say that.


27 posted on 09/18/2017 7:48:10 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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