[digger48]

[cripplecreek]

Eyesores that can be seen from further away.

[2111USMC]

This will result in even more dead eagles and Cessnas.

[BitWielder1]

... gusts and breezes ...

That means intermittent and weak.

[headstamp 2]

Is that height to the center?

[headstamp 2]

Yes, lets double down on stupidity.

[Popman]

“Our domestic wind resource is massive — enough to meet our electricity needs 10 times over — but largely untapped.”

I know nothing about the capacity of wind turbines and the amount of KW they generate...

That statement sounds like complete BS...

[Jack Hammer]

They should park a wind turbine outside congress - the hot air would power America forever.

[RightGeek]

Sure, why not?

[Flick Lives]

These wind turbine companies have the blessing of the government even though the turbines are not economically viable on their own, they are an eyesore, and they cause the death of birds, including eagles. Somehow, all that is forgiven by the energy utopians.

Want to bet if an enterprising journalist (do they still exist?) did a little digging he would find wind turbine companies made donations to political “charities” like the Clinton Foundation.

[central_va]

If wind turbines could be used to generate a breeze on hot humid windless days then they might be useful.

[Alas Babylon!]

In 2010, the BP Oil Spill killed a little over 7,000 birds.

Each year, wind turbines kill 500,000.

“I estimated 888,000 bat and 573,000 bird fatalities/year (including 83,000 raptor fatalities) at 51,630 megawatt (MW) of installed wind-energy capacity in the United States in 2012,” writes K. Shawn Smallwood, author of the study that was published in the Wildlife Society Bulletin.

[SES1066]

The wind power market is dominated by a dozen states, with Texas in the lead as the nation’s top producer, but all 50 states have the capability to mine their gusts and breezes for electricity, the U.S. Department of Energy argues in a new report.

The US DofEnergy is NOT an unbiased source of information. Along with the rest of this Administration, they are populated with the 'true believers' who have the inmate bias towards these 'alternative' energy sources.

While I am not innately against wind power, it is at best (current tech), a supplementary power source given the limitations of the local conditions and wind speed generator restrictions. Add to that the need for power lines to every turbine and the need for the utilities to placate government while still maintaining the essential base load service network, and you have a building logistical problem.

Bye-the-bye, add another willful indifference by government to the above mentioned bird-kill problems. The EPA has had noise pollution regulations for decades. The number of successful invocations of these regulations? Minimal!

[zzwhale]

we dont need government we need a FREE MARKETPLACE
that will bring ECONOMICAL products to consumers
not useless crap.......
you want one of these noise makers / eagle killers in your back yard

[MrB]

About the only thing windmills generate is liberal self-righteousness.

[hal ogen]

A taxpayer supported rope around the moon would probably do the same thing. These leftist idiots are insufferable.

[NormsRevenge]

LOLOL

We gonna kill all them birds,, damn birds..

and then we’re going after drones..

and if a tower or two topples and squashes somebody..

Hey, you want safe efficient cheap energy?

You got it.. rub your hands together ..real fast..

[Georgia Girl 2]

I feel a new fairytale coming out. “Jack and The Turbine”.

God those things are horrible. Lets make them a mile tall.