Posted on 01/27/2021 9:30:49 PM PST by rktman
Last week, Biden’s newly appointed White House climate czar Gina McCarthy said, “Biden has committed to 100% clean power by 2035.…We are going to get there because we will not be stopped.”
Wind, especially, is touted as a symbol of clean power. It is common to see the image of a wind turbine on pamphlets or reports that address the transition to clean energy.
But the shocking truth is that wind energy is impossible without fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are not merely a supporting source, but the very foundation of wind turbines and the energy derived from them.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a highly respected global professional association, calls wind turbines the “pure embodiments of fossil fuels,” and it is 100 percent right to do so.
Every stage in manufacturing wind turbines involves fossil fuels, and plenty of them. Without steel, cement, and fiberglass, there is no wind turbine. All the three are produced with fossil fuels. No fossil fuels, no wind turbines.
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I know. Our energy bills will be the same as our mortgage/rent.
I cant wait.
Even that idiot michael moron had a “duh moment” when he realized that.
They aren’t the sharpest tool in the tool shed. Or come to think of it, not even the sharpest tool in the archeological sites. ( since we are after all speaking fossil fuels)
Places where wind is available are usually not close to population centers, so the grid is extremely important. It will need huge investments in storage also, which simply doesn’t exist now.
Offshore wind become “a thing” about 25 years ago. Denmark and Holland are just about to find out how costly it will be to decommission those first spent windmills at sea, who are now breaking down, and the bases of which weigh 300 tons
Hmmmm. I wonder if disposing of the components will be an issue. Uh, could be.
This isn’t about clean energy....it’s about the massive investors in companies that the elites are highly invested in across the board in the US and on the world stage........which eventually every nation will have carbon tax’s to pay if they’re not purchasing their “green’ solutions. Either or the revenue flow is what they’re after......and control.
Every stage in manufacturing wind turbines involves fossil fuels, and plenty of them. Without steel, cement, and fiberglass, there is no wind turbine. All the three are produced with fossil fuels.
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But, in a billion years those turbines and towers will have evolved to be self creating and not need those fossil fuels.
Solyndra II
The size of those turbine blades along is enough to give you pause. No recycling, no enviromentally carbon-neutral impact.......and solar is out. Cooks birds and creates all manner of airborne hazards. Forget nukes. The EnviroNazis have had that covered for decades. Hydroelectric? The Sierra Club has been a legal advocate for the salmon in a thousand court cases. *sigh* I guess it’s back to oil lamps. No, wait........[/sarc]
The old turbine blades end up in the landfill.
What did socialists use before candles??
Electricity.
Disposal of components used in
windmills and solar panels will
create major problems with land
space and contamination of soils.
Fiberglass (wind turbine blades),
is non-recyclable. Many components
in solar panels contain hazardous
chemicals, and are also non-
recyclable.
EV batteries suffer the same
problems.
Millions of windmills and solar
panels would be required to supply
the nation’s electric power needs.
Euphoria is fleeting.
“No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.” So says Mark twain. In this case it’s plural.
These ‘idiots’ make it sound
like if the vikings were alive
today, they’d die of hyperthermia.
And instead of wearing animal
skins to keep warm, they would be
running around, naked.
If we start seeing eskimos running
around, naked, there might be
something to this climate change
thing.
This past weekend I made a round trip across PA, I make this trip monthly. In and around Cambria county, the mountains are littered with windmills. On Friday heading west, all that I could see were at a dead stop. It was very windy that day and I figured well it must be too much wind for safe operation. On the return trip on Sunday, not noticeably windy, I only saw three turning out of the 20-30 that I could see. I don’t ever recall seeing them at a standstill before. I can understand having a couple down for maintenance at any given time but basically having them all or mostly all idle was odd.
My obamacare payments arae 200 more then my mortgage.
I’m sorry to hear that Gina McCarthy is brain-damaged.
It takes a special kind of stupid to be a democrat.
I personally have always thought that wind generation of electricity is an example of a reverse economy of scale. It makes a certain amount of sense for — say — a single household off the power grid because of distance or other isolating circumstances, but when one tries to scale it up to a major contributor to the power network, it fails.
Smaller installations, designed and built of recyclable, modular parts, generating electricity for single farms or small communities might be more viable. Especially if they had the ability to sell any surplus power they generated to the regional or national grid, and buy power from that source when their wind generation was inadequate.
The great scam
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