Posted on 09/09/2022 2:39:35 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
Yep- rather than having one 1/2 mile gas platform, dumbass liberals want to have over 1200 wind turbines off the coast of NC which would completely destroy the beautiful coastline and views.
Each wind turbine not only uses gas but is required to be drilled 300 feet into the bedrock - so much for crazy environmentalists and their love of saving fish and wildlife. Wind turbines last an average of 25 years and there really isn’t a market for any company to remove them when they stop working so liberals have NO issue with those monstrosities littering the coastline and ruining our environment.
“destroying the environment “
I don’t see that. A wind turbine is a big generator on a pole. Those generators are a small fraction of the generators and motors being manufactured and thus consume only a small fraction of rare-earth metals.
My boys and I just drove cross-country, mostly on I-90. I can’t believe how many hideous wind turbines there are along the way, literally thousands! Considering that they only produce about 10% of their rating, kill birds and bats by the truckload and are as ugly as sin, I would say that they are DEFINITLY not worth it.
The fact there are rare earths doesn’t make them rare. They ar found and mined wherever it is economic
Materials for Wind Turbine Blades: An Overview
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5706232/
One wind turbine blade can require as much as 5,300 cubic feet of balsa wood.
The price of balsa wood shot up, driven by demand from Communist China. While the Chinese have tried to grow their own balsa with limited success, they have turned to deforesting the Amazon. The Amazon, the world’s largest carbon sink, is being destroyed to reduce carbon.
Environmentalists are destroying the planet to save the planet.
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Looks like I missed an article. Here is a link to the first posting:
Wind Turbines Are Destroying the Planet
And a link back to his full article:
Wind Turbines Are Destroying the Planet
There is a good discussion at both places, with his links for attributed sources, plus the first posting at FR. This thread goes back to "MadMimi", which bills itself as an email tracking service. Hmm.
As always, please FReepmail me if you want on or off the esteemed Daniel Greenfield ping list.
Thank you for the clarity.
I tell greenie beanies that windmills make the wind slow down (in fact they do) and it will alter the climate. When they say “that is ridiculous”, I say “like man made CO2?”
The government gives money to subsidize the wind turbine industry. Fortunately, most government handouts are skimmed and not spent on the purpose intended. Think Solyndra.
Bookmarked. There are good economic reasons to oppose these things. I have not heard of balsa wood fillers as one additional reason though.
“The fact there are rare earths doesn’t make them rare.”
Good point. Maybe the complaints are mainly the the mining is polluting and the 3rd world miners are exploited.
To illustrate, the only currently dug lithium mine in the US southwest (California ?) was shutdown by the new environmental lawsuits only 3-4 years ago. Getting reopened will be nearly impossible now. And unlikely to be ever run profitably.
With all those blades turning and vibration it might throw the Earth out of it’s orbit , LOL
Not to mention the bird population. And they don’t take out as many of the little birds, it’s the larger ones that many are probably protected. Where are the liberals about that!
I wonder how long it will be before Hollywood makes a movie showing the rare earth mining in the same vein as they did for “Blood Diamond”. It would wreck their green energy myth, so I’m guessing never.
Yeah, where’s Hank Johnson when you really need him?
California will soon be demonstrating the folly of relying on fickle winds for generating electricity. The irony of issuing a ban on selling ICE vehicles followed by a few days later by limiting when you can charge your EV has not been lost except for the climate change cultists.
Yes...but it has to be paid out on a structure...hence the use of balsa wood.
Why the libs were all over Saving the Birds! back in the 60’s when it was thought that DDT was killing them off.
Fast forward a couple of decades and it is windmills doing the work that DuPont won’t do anymore.
But Shhh ... that’s a small price to pay to gain control over the winds and rain. And the sun.
All for a small payment to the government !?
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759376113/unfurling-the-waste-problem-caused-by-wind-energy
Waste problem for one. Also the energy required to build one wind turbine is greater than the energy it will ever make.
Going backwards it seems.
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