TIMBERRRR !!!
Posted on 09/25/2020 7:22:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
Environmentalists and wind energy opportunists (entrepreneurs who take advantage of overly generous tax credits and multiple other subsidies) want you to believe wind energy is as pure “green” as newly driven snow is white, and as cheap as Taco Bell.
They never tell you about the costs – or the environmental destruction – that they have hidden from you for decades. But neither do most governments, news media or social media.
Ars Technica science editor John Timmer says wind hardware prices are dropping, even as new turbine designs are increasing the typical power generated by each turbine. Timmer did admit that “wind is even cheaper at the moment because of a tax credit given to renewable energy generation” [emphasis added]. He cautioned that phasing out the many existing incentives could surely create uncertainties regarding wind’s future cost and dominance. But that’s about it.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s 2018 Wind Technologies Market Report glowingly stated:“With the support of federal tax incentives, both wind and solar power purchase agreement (PPA) prices are now below the projected cost of burning natural gas in existing gas-fired combined cycle units.”
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
TIMBERRRR !!!
I hate the damn things!
No saving grace whatsoever!
This infuriates me, just another government boondoggle for the connected to get rich off taxpayers. Never even consider the unintended consequences.
In Real Estate school, I learned the early Real Estate law included "the ground to the center of the earth and up to the universe." In other words you owned everything in the ground and all aerial rights. The aerial rights are gone and the state wants to meter our water, illegal!
With large enough 'incentives' hamsters running in circles can create enough energy to run a large city.
Everything has an energy signature...
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