Not only that but they visually pollute once pristine landscapes and kill birds. The once beautiful Columbia River gorge between Washington State and Oregon is a case in point. Also another windmill disaster is Palm Springs. I can’t think Solar Energy is going to be much better.
Beware the backdoor subsidy...some states are mandating that a certain percentage of power come from wind.
I still advocate installing solar panels adjacent to the wind turbines and the shredded and cooked poultry downstream can be fed to the starving victims of the Baraqqi Depression.
“None of the brilliant central planners in Washington ever saw that coming.”
The central planners’ response would be that they should have more power to shut down the production of natural gas and shale oil. Then their 5 year master plans for progress will surely be successful. Just like in the former Soviet Union.
A couple of years ago, I read an article written by an environmentalist wacko who actually admitted this. She admitted in her article that those goofyass windmills were only there as a reminder to people to “save da planet.” Kind of like environmentalist wacko billboards. I wish that I had bookmarked that article and have since tried to find it again. No luck.
. . .and lots of dead birds including eagles and other endangered species that are valuable. Yet they create drought in central California to destroy one of our greatest farmlands to protect a small fish that can live almost anywhere.
They aren’t just incompetent. They are evil.
I can’t help wondering how hard the oil companies are crying, that each windmill needs an oil change once a week?
How many windmills x 52 weeks = how many gallons? So these wind puppies are burning through the oil are they!
I advocate the requirement for cities (over 500,000 in blue states) be required to have at least 50% of their electricity generated by solar panel and turbines mounted on buildings within the city limits.
I have frequently driven by a virtual forest of windmills in southwestern Minnesota with windmills from horizon to horizon. Often I have driven by when not one of these hundreds of windmills are turning.