Posted on 09/11/2011 6:52:10 PM PDT by george76
Thanks, Civ.
“Everyone has a steak in this.”
That takes some chops.
Windfarms. Ecofascist environmental equivalent to a strip mine.
Consumers.
You are lucky. The kooks in California have MANDATED that 1/3 of our power must come from wind and solar. Look for rates to double and power to be unreliable.
How many people died at Three Mile Island?
One less than died in Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile.
There is one being proposed here in michigan that would cover some 6,000 acres with towers 4 and 5 hundred feet tall. I did some estimating and figured that they would be visible over an area of nearly 200 square miles.
I don’t remember the exact figures but it was enough for me to decide I’d rather live a mile from a coal fired plant.
There is of course one more concern. Wind transfers energy (heat) from one place on Earth to another. If enough windmills are built, they will slow the wind down and extract that energy from the wind. As result, the energy will not be released where it was meant to be. The air will be colder. How will this impact the precious climate that so many "scientists" are agog about?
Note that if the air gets colder then the water vapor in it condenses into water droplets. You will get clouds and rain where no rain was supposed to be, and accordingly other locations will not get that water. I somehow doubt that any of that was included into the environmental study.
It's amazing how common sense (or reality) gets checked at the door...........
I’d like to laugh at the Brits for this but we’re still converting our food into ethanol.
Utter drivel, even Algore has written more intelligent factual crap than this.
But he’s magical.
“There is of course one more concern. Wind transfers energy (heat) from one place on Earth to another. If enough windmills are built, they will slow the wind down and extract that energy from the wind. As result, the energy will not be released where it was meant to be. The air will be colder. How will this impact the precious climate that so many “scientists” are agog about? “
OK wise guy, I live in eastern New Mexico, the most windy place in the nation, and windmill Heaven. We have lots of windmills! Then how come we had triple digit heat most of the summer? We have enough windmills we should have been wearing sweaters all summer. And our heat should have been pushed up to Seattle WA. I know junk science when I see it.
Hat tip to FreeReign.....
equivalent to a strip mine
Worse! Strip mines will be returned to a natural habitat after they are mined out. Windmills may very well be a blight on the environment for decades.
Strip mines actually produce a product for sale at a reasonable price. I’ll take a coal bearing strip mine to a bunch of windmills any day any time.
Strip mines are capable of efficiencies that can be measured above 30 percent. Windmills are limited to 30 percent or less by the very nature of wind.
You are a rare steakholder. You have used FreeRepublic as your medium to prove it. Well done.
OK wise guy, I live in eastern New Mexico, the most windy place in the nation,
You might get some argument from the entire state of WY
Amen. Truly a blight indeed.
We are, unfortunately, beset by these monsters here in TX and in large part thanks to, alas, GWB. One of the last things he did as Governor was “ok” the wind power initiative we have plaguing us today. Nonwithstanding the fact that they are a scam, scamola, fairy tale, a fool’s bet, hogwash, hooey, balderdash, and bilge.
Now, for those landowners who’ve chosen to accept leases for these catastrophes, they are told that there is a giant pile of money being put aside somewhere in Austin (cough, BS) just in case, for whatever reason, in the unlikely event that the mills on their property are shuddered that the cost of removal and reclamation will be paid for. Ya know, some event like the taxpayer subsidies supporting them now running out and the machines becoming instantly uneconomical.
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