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1 posted on 07/20/2011 11:45:44 AM PDT by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck

Bad news for greenie weenies.


2 posted on 07/20/2011 11:48:31 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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How do I get this message to the dimwits who run our state electric utility? Right now they are offering us the opportunity to pay MORE if we want our electricity generated by wind power.


3 posted on 07/20/2011 11:49:30 AM PDT by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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Unpossible! What the article does not tell you is that this study was financed by Big Solar.


4 posted on 07/20/2011 11:49:35 AM PDT by Drill Thrawl (Are you prepared?)
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Well, proof positive that wind turbines suck in more ways than one.


5 posted on 07/20/2011 11:50:35 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Si Ego Certiorem Faciam Mihi Tu Delendus Eris)
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Gee, who could have saw that coming < /sarcasm > .
6 posted on 07/20/2011 11:51:14 AM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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One problem with wind is that it isn’t there when you need the power most. It tends to be hottest or coldest in the center of air masses where the wind tends to be stillest.

Today we’ve hit 97 degrees with winds topping out at around 5 mph.


7 posted on 07/20/2011 11:51:39 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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Furthermore, if wind energy does help reduce carbon emissions

"If"


8 posted on 07/20/2011 11:54:15 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Monarchy is the one system of government where power is exercised for the good of all - Aristotle)
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This was taken on my way back to Seattle. These generators are ugly and half of them were not working.

9 posted on 07/20/2011 11:57:08 AM PDT by dragonblustar (I love Allen West!)
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One thing I’ve never understood. Because wind is NOT consistent, anywhere on earth, and periods of calm are very common, it seems (to me) that there is not a single existing power plant that can be either replaced OR shut down.
The wind (anywhere) can die to nothing in a matter of moments, ceasing the “production” of electricity. Since a “fossel fuel” plant takes a matter of hours to begin generating power after a cold start, there is not the possibility of SHUTTING DOWN a single current power plant.
In my part of New England, we are staring 100 degree heat in the face. Without CONSISTENTLY available electricity, without pause, the shut down of air-conditioners will cause the rapid deaths of thousands of elderly and younger ill people.
Remember the catastrophe in France a few years ago when a rare (for them) heat wave killed 40,000 elderly people in a land without air-conditioning?
Don’t need or want that here (I’m one of those elderly)


10 posted on 07/20/2011 11:59:00 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf (NY TIMES: "We print the news as it fits our views")
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But the most important conclusion from the study is that wind energy is not "a cost-effective solution for reducing carbon dioxide if carbon is valued at less than $33 per ton."

Then there's only one solution. Change $33 to another number so it will start making sense again.

Dang, that was so easy. Can I get my grant money now?? /sarc

13 posted on 07/20/2011 12:04:47 PM PDT by ken in texas (Can't Afford a Tagline... send money.)
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I’ll add this to my new book I’m writing called “Leftist are so full of sh!t... and are damned proud of it”


14 posted on 07/20/2011 12:07:08 PM PDT by txroadkill (Freep'n from KSC...Ganna watch the shuttle land!)
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Wind power is a complete disaster

"Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone)."

16 posted on 07/20/2011 12:16:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel des Ursins)
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This stuff hits close to home with me as there are some wind turbines planned too close for comfort where I live, and I have a costly legal battle ahead in an effort to stop them.

Wind energy is today's snake oil, being forced on us by corrupt governments (at all levels) and their crony capitalists, all of whom stand to gain billions of dollars by jamming these beastly things wherever they can.

The vast majority of those who live anywhere near the things hate them due to noise, flicker (light strobing), unsightly appearance, reduction in property values, bird and bat destruction, leakage, fires, ice throws, etc.

The people pushing turbines like to sell feel-goodism to the gullible masses, never mentioning the reality of them, which also includes no reduction in electric rates, never once shutting down a conventional power plant, and unreliability.

The simple question to ask folks is who you going to believe in this debate, the side with billions of dollars at stake or those who live near them with nothing at stake but their health and home?

I pray God has a special place in hell for these wind bastards and their enablers.

18 posted on 07/20/2011 12:19:26 PM PDT by Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness
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A while ago there was a freeper (can’t remember who, or I’d ping’em) who was involved with wind power in a professional capacity.

He basically said that what makes them sound practical is that they always figure in all the government tax breaks and grants when then talk about them. Without those breaks, wind power is a financial black hole. They are a huge scam.


20 posted on 07/20/2011 12:21:21 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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24 posted on 07/20/2011 12:45:03 PM PDT by FrankR ("If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat." - R. Reagan)
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Several years ago, we went to the Big Island of Hawaii. On a trek to a secluded beach, we came across a wind farm with a couple dozen of Mitsubishi windmills, all of which were rusting and not working. This made me ask the locals how they generate electricity on the islands. They told me fuel oil is shipped in by tanker to power the generating plant.

As an island, thousands of miles from anywhere, transport cost for fuel have to be enormous. Being in the middle of the ocean with steady trade winds, plus a tropical temperate climate should make wind viable. Because of it’s small size, there are concentrated populations with minimal transmission cost. So if wind power is not economical in Hawaii, it can’t be economical anywhere.


25 posted on 07/20/2011 12:58:05 PM PDT by SDShack (0zer0care = "The Final Solution" - Socialized Euthanasia Healthcare)
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If wind turbines were the answer, the engineers at the power companies would have implemented them years ago. But these Engineers have one big problem; they are very bright people. They have looked at the pros and cons of wind power and decided that it makes no sense whatsoever. There are dozens of reasons for this. But the politicians chose to listen to idiot environmentalists and con men who told them that wind could be the answer. We've wasted a lot of time and a lot of money and the engineers who dismissed wind power have been proven correct. Surprise, surprise. The smart engineers actually knew what they were talking about.

Will the politicians listen? I doubt it. They are too stupid or corrupt.
28 posted on 07/20/2011 1:03:04 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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Most of this “green energy” is organized looting of Federal and local treasuries by mobs of psudo-scientists sporting
an Ivy Certificate as their license to thievery and mendacity.


30 posted on 07/20/2011 1:09:52 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
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Most of this “green energy” is organized looting of Federal and local treasuries by mobs of pseudo-scientists sporting
an Ivy Certificate as their license to thievery and mendacity.


31 posted on 07/20/2011 1:10:00 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you do not, no explanation is possible")
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They should locate more of them around Washington, D.C., where there’s plenty of hot air.


37 posted on 07/20/2011 9:26:39 PM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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