Posted on 07/28/2025 1:08:42 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Don Quixote tragically tilted at windmills, mistaking them for monsters. Donald Trump, on the other hand, recognizes the real monster — the subsidies, the blight, and the lies — behind the spinning blades.
"The other thing I say to Europe, we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States," Trump said during trade talks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
"They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains. It’s the most expensive form of energy. It’s no good," Trump said to an audience that must have been aghast at his politically incorrect audacity.
"When they start to rust and rot in eight years, you can't really turn them off, you can't bury them, they won't let you bury the propellers – you know, the props – because they're a certain type of fiber that doesn't go well with the land, that's what they say, the environmentalists say you can't bury them."
And yet so many so-called environmentalists insist on windmills.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Trump is truly priceless as a politician who keeps it simple and doesn't try to talk political-speak.
I think if anyone got fed money to put them up, they should be forced to pay to tear them down and dispose of the waste.
Claw that graft $ right back out of their slimy grifter hands.
Windmills in Holland economically serve a simple purpose.
The near constant wind drives the pumps.
It’s a location and purpose fit that suits the folks there.
Kind of like solar panels on a roof in Arizona.
Or kinetic generators in the Bay of Fundy.
Or burning garbage in a big city.
Putting stuff were it doesn’t belong is the craziness of the Greenies.
Yet another example of “tell it like it is.”
Someday, it would be so delicious to see President Trump with the German Government. President Trump could ask “So, you TURNED OFF all of your electricity generated with nuclear power. How’s that going for you?”
Meanwhile, Silicon Valley and others are going to forge ahead with electricity from modular nuclear power.
BKMK
Good. Reminds me of Reagan tearing out the ridiculous 1970s 5% efficient solar panels from the roof of the White House. First President since Reagan who doesn’t care about the bleating from the other side.
The problem with wind is, there aren’t many people where the wind is best, so you have to build expensive transmission lines in addition to the wind farm. We need an all-out effort to develop small, safe, distributed (thorium) nuclear generation that that located at the place where power is used.
The technology and engineering already exist for Small Modular Nuclear Reactor units, which can be built on a factory assembly line and shipped by rail or truck to the site where they can be installed in a period of weeks, up and running in a matter of days after that, and provide energy on a 24/7/365 basis for a period of years, at almost flat-out maximum output. Vastly cheaper and much safer than the older light-water atomic pile behemoths, which were obsolete in the 1960’s.
A lesser known problem, source: Oxford Academic
“To those unfamiliar with land-based wind energy development, it might come as a surprise to learn that human health concerns are one of the significant impediments to building new wind farms. It might be further surprising to learn that, among the health concerns, sleep disruption is high on the list. For example, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health appointed an expert panel that examined the potential health impact of wind turbines. They evaluated published and unpublished work, as well as first-hand testimony of citizens. The panel concluded that sleep disruption “is the most commonly reported complaint by people living near wind turbines…”
And yet Holland is rationing energy. Wind is not enough to power a serious economy.
I predict that, when all the subsidies stop and when all these monstrosities reach then end of their lives in 20-30 years, most of the companies that manufactured them, erected them, and owned/operated them will be out of business. The nation will be covered in inoperative, decaying junk.
Then, in 30-40 years, there will be another $100 billion EPA “Superfund” to remove the junk from the countryside.
* The steel towers will be recycled
* The millions of tons of concrete in the ground will be left there to decay there and will be covered in dirt
* The blades will — well it’s anybody’s guess. Millions of tons of them dumped into landfills to decay? There are no solvents or processes that can recycle them. They can’t be burned. They can’t be tossed in the ocean.
What a looming environmental disaster. I’m turning 74 in a couple days so I won’t live to see it. But, mark my words, that scenario will play out.
“generation that that located at the place where power is used.”
Case in Point:
Windmills in very windy Holland to pump out the ground water.
“Wind is not enough to power a serious economy.”
Not my argument.
Windmills in windy Holland efficiently pump out ground water.
Function and use for site specific case.
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