Natural Gas....It’s clean, it’s available, it’s moveable.
Of course they want to abandoned the wind project. OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY will eventually be insufficient. Maybe we’ve reached that point where most OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY is being REDIRECTED TO THE UKRAINE PROJECT,
My guess is - that like ethanol - it takes more energy to make the ‘illusion’ than energy we get out of it.
I guess those ESG pensions will take a hit also?
Twenty years to pay for something with a ten year lifespan.
Blade disposal is problematic and most turbines are abandoned in place, with no accountability.
No subsidy, no matter the size, will ever make wind-generated electricity a viable source of energy for anything other than a niche application.
The mechanisms are much too complex and the source much too unreliable for consistent outcome.
Go nuclear. But not with the huge custom-built reactors of the 1960s, but with newer, much more compact, and far safer reactor units, which may be built on an assembly-line basis, and shipped for setup on the sites via rail and semi-trailer trucks.
I worked for a branch of the Siemens corporation and to ever hear a German manager/executive EVER say anything negative about financials was a big No-No, almost heretical. Because. “Ze make da best engineering in da vorld...”
Intermittent energy production can never be economically. Proper economic analysis will fully burden the intermittent production costs with the full costs of the backup power production, ie, a full additional power plant.
In February 2021, wind was about 25% of the power generation to the Texas grid and it went to basically zero because in arctic cold winter outbreaks and in peak summer heat, the winds are generally calm. Same last week during our 4 day ice storm, wind dropped way off.
There must be a full backup power plant, maintained, and in hot stand by. Those costs have to be burdened to the cost of wind power. Therefore wind will never be economically. Economical wind power is a fantasy and waste of everyone’s money except to the businesses make a profit from taxpayer subsidies / welfare payments.
At least there are no piles of dead birds;’ the fish eat them, and the tides wash them out to sea. Heh.
If our UberMasters say that our homeland use of fossil fuels need to be stopped because of “Climate Change”, then
We should demand that we no longer ship natural gas or oil to nations that will continue “to pollute the atmosphere”, LOL!
Shut down the exports!
THAT will draw attention to the fact that they are insane dumbazzes.
Turn those white elephants into guns.
We’ll have to eat ze bugs sooner rather than later?
Decommissioned wind turbine blades can be used to house impoverished Americans after they have been kicked out of their homes, which are then given for free to 3rd world migrants.