Energy and environmental issues need to be addressed using logic and scientific thinking, not emotion, wishes, and depiction.
On a realistic basis, industrial wind energy fails to deliver the goods. By this I mean that windpower:
1) Is not a technically sound solution to provide us electricity, or to meaningfully reduce global warming, and
2) Is not an economically viable source of energy on its own, and
3) Is not environmentally responsible
When you take away the wind lobbyists’ fast-talking shenanigans, their con comes down to these two things: They are telling us what we want to hear, and we’re not really verifying the truth of what they’re saying.
The intellectual conjurers have a clever one-two marketing campaign. First we’re told that the planet is facing imminent catastrophe. And then a salesman comes to our community with a solution! The spiel is that we can do something consequential to help prevent this global disaster — and we can create jobs doing it, and make some easy money in the process.
What a deal!
Wind magicians go into a rural community and carefully cultivate the idea that anything coming from them is found money. The trick is that it’s not coming from them at all, as it’s entirely paid by taxpayers and ratepayers.
“Wind magicians go into a rural community and carefully cultivate the idea that anything coming from them is found money. The trick is that it’s not coming from them at all, as it’s entirely paid by taxpayers and ratepayers.”
A masterful quote, John D!
Heavy lobbying by politically well-connected GE and Siemens ( largest worldwide producers of Wind Turbines and associated paraphernalia ) in Europe and the US, have reaped mega benefits from this “trick” – an appropriate description, as thats what hookers call them too!
Wind has its best shot where Hydro (and only Hydro) is available, as bringing “reserve” power into the grid when the wind dies down, does not involve too much waste startup and drop down energy losses. Of course, the European wind sites in NL, DK, & Germany are for the most part, flat as a pancake and nearby Hydro is unavailable.
Similarly, without tax subsidies, West Texas and southern CA wind sites have no Hydro stopgap available either. As EPA does not classify (incredibly) clean Hydro as “renewable,” guess what is NOT being developed at any useful scale in the US!
The inmates and subsidized zookeepers are running the asylum these days, and trying to use their babbling to persuade YOU of their sanity!