Posted on 04/09/2009 4:57:48 AM PDT by Clive
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The attraction of wind power is that it looks like getting something for nothing.
TANSTAAFL
But don't stop drilling or building nuke plants unless you want $200 per barrel oil. Making that argument always brings out their true issue which is how they hate the oil companies.It always emotional and never rational with these assclowns.
Truth is they don't want energy security or clean power they want control.
Yikes. Thats gonna hurt.
for later
Once you add on the additional economic activity necessary to pay the taxes which provide the subsidies, you are talking about triple the CO2 production for every megawatt of electricity produced.
No $hit wind is too expensive and to unpredictable.
The US has come closer to meeting the Kyoto Protocol targets than any signatory nation in the Industrialized West.
But do we get credit for that? Noooooooooooo!
OK, so windmills don’t cause a net reduction in carbon emissions.
They do, however, grind up those pesky birds. LaGuardia Airport should consider building a few dozen of them.
I live close enough to IH-10 corridor in Texas where we see truck after truck hauling huge wind generator rotors to W. Texas. Windpower has a HUGE footprint, very inefficient compared to what it produces, not includig maintenance, roads graded, pads for the plant, power connections. I’ve never heard an envirowacko speak of these things but don’t you DARE suggest cutting or even maintaning a forest service road, oh no, that’s terrible.
But after all, they cover many square miles of sonoran desert, mesa tops, sage, greasewood, so who cares, right? I care. I only hope that the landowners are being compensated handsomely, somebody needs to benefit and the ranchers I know sure could use it.
I guess one can also appreciate that the industry it built up utilizes synthetics (fiberglass, plastics) which last I knew is based on petroleum products. The irony of it all is wonderful.
Bookmarked.
It’s the government preference for politically correct elections that kills the market. Nature doesn’t distinguish between electrons, they all look and act the same. But run a diesel truck, pay some people to stand around and watch a guy climb the tower and replace bearings, fabricate and run lots of extra copper to collect the electrons and distribute them long distance to less windy areas, all that crap wastes money and real energy that an end-user could be using. It’s just another way of digging holes and filling them back in, except much more expensive and resource wasting.
T. Boone Pickens is looking to make a bundle.
Ya know, it doesnt take a study or even factual reporting of the failure of wind power to teel us that it doesnt work. Common sense should tell us that. Trying to get our democrat politicians to open their minds to the fact that there is no free alternative energy source is like trying to jump to the moon.
We are going to need Oil and coal for another 100 years no matter what they do and refusing to drill for it or use it is just plain ignorance.
Do not argue about reducing carbon emissions.
The whole concept is bogus. The carbon emission problems can best be eliminated by extermination of those beating this dead horse
Yes, it's expensive now but later it will be better.
Yes, it's unpredictable now, but later it will be better.
Yes, it has a big carbon footprint now, but later it will be better.
The revolution is always going to be far more successful ... next time.
“But the Europeons just aren’t doing it right.”
“They don’t have the right person in charge yet.”
(/off commie speak)
“and viewsheds.”
Can’t recall having seen that word before. Is it a relatively new word?
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