Nan and the Big Wind Boone-doggle

Michelle Malkin online ^ | 08-13-2008 | Michelle Malkin

[autumnraine]

My first post, I hope I do this right.

Nan's hand in the cookie jar.

[Da Coyote]

This woman is clearly incapable of thinking at even a junior-high level. What have we done to deserve such?

[Quix]

I think we need to call her

NANNY RACHET

[DungeonMaster]

Wind power is good, Nan is bad.

[econjack]

This will never see the light of day in the MSM.

[EyeGuy]

I’m Fed-Exing all of my personal “Bio-Mass” for StretchFace to burn for fuel in her palatial digs.

[DJ MacWoW]

Wind and solar are a joke. Nan is a dirty trick on the American people.

[DungeonMaster]

Wind and solar are a joke. Nan is a dirty trick on the American people.

Wind is providing 6 percent of the electrical power used in Iowa and that could easily be up to 10 percent in 2 to 3 years. It is also providing tons of land lease money to farmers. That is not a joke in any way.

[meyer]

Wind is providing 6 percent of the electrical power used in Iowa and that could easily be up to 10 percent in 2 to 3 years. It is also providing tons of land lease money to farmers. That is not a joke in any way.

Take away generous, taxpayer-funded subsidies and most of the wind development dreams would disappear. I wouldn't consider wind a joke either, but it is being touted way beyond it's economic and practical value.

[DJ MacWoW]

6%. In 30 years of development. Sorry but wind isn't the answer.

And I just read that it takes 600 windmills to power 140,000 homes. Not wonderful.

[Ben Ficklin]

"This will never see the light of day in the MSM"

That is because it is mis-info.

It originated at the #DontGO blog written by William R, Collier, Jr AKA Republicanist. It then gets picked up by Mis-info queen Maulkin, and then gets spread to FR.

After numerous threads at FR, it becomes pseudo-fact.

[DungeonMaster]

From where do you wrongly get that 30 year number?

[DJ MacWoW]

Good gravy, there has been wind and solar since the early 80’s. It doesn’t work. There have been no “breakthroughs”. It takes too many windmills to power anything.

[DungeonMaster]

Take away generous, taxpayer-funded subsidies and most of the wind development dreams would disappear. I wouldn't consider wind a joke either, but it is being touted way beyond it's economic and practical value.

In a very time wind will be subsidie free. Other forms of power get government assistance of various types too. Even the grocery store near my house got a million dollars in government assistance in order to build a bigger store. Regarding the way wind is being touted, yes, wind is not going to run my Harley and it should not be touted as a replacement for good ole gasoline.

Ever look into the black lung fund or the fact that if a nuke has a problem it is the government that does the clean up rather than an insurance policy?

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

As I understand it, from an earlier thread, T-Bones “plan” is also based on a plot to seize vast water rights in that area.

[DJ MacWoW]

Windpower Developement

Information on developments since 1975

[DungeonMaster]

Good gravy, there has been wind and solar since the early 80’s. It doesn’t work. There have been no “breakthroughs”. It takes too many windmills to power anything.

Your statement shows quite a bit if ignorance.

[DungeonMaster]

My current work location prevents me from opening that link. But what I will say is that 1gw of wind can produce about 2500 gwhr of power which represents about 5 percent of Iowa’s use. We can add 1 GW of wind every 3 years so your 30 years number is rather meaningless.

[DJ MacWoW]

Your statement shows quite a bit if ignorance.

Hardly. See post 16.

Last week, another Freeper was talking about their states wonderful wind turbines, that are run by gas when there's no wind.

[DJ MacWoW]

No it’s not. You still need a forest of windmills to get any significant power. Wind will never be a mainstream, viable alternative.