Up until 2009, I sat in German for around fourteen years. Year after year....more windmill farms were being built. The thing that I came to realize from the German statistics and propaganda on the business....is that for every percentage point of use that you get out of them....you have to have that same percentage point existing somewhere else...ready to go with backup power. This means a nuke plant or hydro-electric plant, or coal plant. People are tossing billions for the wind power, but you have to sustain the back-up power as well. This makes the whole thing questionable.
The birds killed? Best not to mention that to the environmentalists. They’ve got one or two groups who are very anti-wind-power...strictly because of bird kill.
The maintenance? If you drive past a group of a dozen wind-mills daily....it’s about every six weeks that you see one of them down for maintenance. Don’t know the cost but it can’t be cheap. And those lightning strikes? Well...yeah, they do occur in extreme storms.
“People are tossing billions for the wind power....”
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And SIEMENS and the politicians who are pushing the construction of these propellors are raking in those very billions.