Bad news for greenie weenies.
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.
Unpossible! What the article does not tell you is that this study was financed by Big Solar.
Well, proof positive that wind turbines suck in more ways than one.
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.
"If"
This was taken on my way back to Seattle. These generators are ugly and half of them were not working.
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)
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
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”
"Denmark, the worlds 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 powers unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone)."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
They should locate more of them around Washington, D.C., where there’s plenty of hot air.