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Posted on 05/12/2017 7:49:32 AM PDT by rktman
Donald Trump is not a fan of wind turbines, as he has hinted occasionally on Twitter.
Not only are wind farms disgusting looking, but even worse they are bad for people’s health http://t.co/2G8YrOUZ (cont) http://t.co/NujHgnXU
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2012
Wind farms are killing many thousands of birds. They make hunters look like nice people!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2012
It’s Friday. How many bald eagles did wind turbines kill today? They are an environmental & aesthetic disaster.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2012
But there’s a very powerful lobby which would like us to see wind turbines as being clean, eco-friendly and vital for the planet’s future. So if President Trump is to crush this bloated, parasitical industry as it deserves he’ll need some serious fire support.
This piece by Matt Ridley is a big help. It convincingly demonstrates that wind turbines are even more of a monstrous stupidity than any of us had hitherto imagined.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Hunters are nice people.
Why yes, yes they are. Somebody posted the amount of meat donated to shelters every year by hunters. The number was huge as I recall. Anyone? Buhler?
I wish someone would donate their meat to ME!
Shelters? Pah!
There’s plenty of hard working Americans who would appreciate the game probably more.
Glad Trumps solved all the problems we and the world has and is now able to focus on wind farms.
Not the smartest thing to say.
Wind farms are lefty crony “capitalism” enterprises.
Of course, no wind farms are permitted when they obstruct the view of rich leftist 20 million dollar mansions.
The hate America greenies put windmills in the Altamont Pass in California near Livermore.
Hunters and bird experts tried to warn the Green Fascist Thugs that for thousands of years that pass was used by migratory birds, ducks, geese, and other migratory birds.
Of course they were ignored by our left wing green fascists, and the wind mills were put in.
Thousands of ducks, geese and other migratory birds were slaughtered by the windmills.
Then eagles and protected hawks were killed when they tried to feed on the dead migratory birds.
Finally, some sanity came in:
http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Wind-power-company-to-replace-bird-killing-6606370.php
The bigger wind mills are still killing birds.
Transmissions also tend to wear out quickly; replacing them cancels out any ROI. Direct drive lasts longer, but it’s prohibitively expensive and also cancels out 20 year ROI.
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To the nearest whole number, what percentage of the world’s energy consumption was supplied by wind power in 2014, the last year for which there are reliable figures? Was it 20 per cent, 10 per cent or 5 per cent? None of the above: it was 0 per cent. That is to say, to the nearest whole number, there is still no wind power on Earth.
Yep. All those views blighted; all that wildlife sliced and diced; all those billions of dollars of subsidies wasted – in order to produce a form of power so inefficient and triflingly irrelevant that it still supplies not much more than 0 per cent of the world’s energy consumption.
I think the name, Wind Farm subsidies is tantamount to getting VOTES and lining the pockets of lobbyists obviously little else.
They chop birds to pieces.
They do not help. Power plants need to have the facilities to generate electricity during the time of maximum usage. Windmills or not.
I wintered over in that area (we had snow in Yellowstone in July so at the time it seemed like a good decision to come south).
It's amazing how few of these things turn even when the wind is blowing.
On a separate note, a PG&E employee told me that the nutcases out here are going to shut down Diablo Canyon Nuc Plant in the next few years. Seems these dumba$$es think they can replace a real power plant with solar/wind.
They are installing battery storage units so they can store solar energy and place it on the grid later in the evening.
Search for the Super Battery NOVA Documentary
The NOVA documentary does a decent job on some of the NEW Lithium batteries in the labs but the knucklehead does the usual global warming stupidity that PBS is so famous for.
I wintered over in that area (we had snow in Yellowstone in July so at the time it seemed like a good decision to come south).
It's amazing how few of these things turn even when the wind is blowing.
On a separate note, a PG&E employee told me that the nutcases out here are going to shut down Diablo Canyon Nuc Plant in the next few years. Seems these dumba$$es think they can replace a real power plant with solar/wind.
They are installing battery storage units so they can store solar energy and place it on the grid later in the evening.
Search for the Super Battery NOVA Documentary
The NOVA documentary does a decent job on some of the NEW Lithium batteries in the labs but the knucklehead does the usual global warming stupidity that PBS is so famous for.
I have long oppposed wind farms as I consider geothermal energy production to be the less environment disturbing and reliable alternative. The same can be said for solar panels.
The teevee show dirty jobs had a segment where 6 or 8 guys climbed up 800 feet to the top of one of those monstrous wind mills so they could clean all the oil that was leaking inside of it. I guess they aren’t so green after all. Maybe the green part signifies the cash subsidies the big fan companies rake in?
Way to stay positive!
About as “green” as those ZEErow emissions tesla cars.
A company tried to put in a wind farm in my country town once, wanting to rent space across numerous properties.
I realized that the driving business model was a series of ownerships:
- Sales pitch, acquiring the property rights (”we’d like to rent a mere X square feet of your property to put up this tower”)
- Flip that to the construction company (builds the tower)
- Flip that to the operator company (manages power generation/distribution)
...then things get interesting...
- Considering the enormous cost of repairs, broken turbines may or may not get fixed. (Go look up “spectacular wind turbine failures”)
- As turbines reach end-of-life, what happens gets murky, most likely...
- Flip that to scrapping operation, costly process of dismantling & removing the very large & tall turbine remains.
Upshot is it’s a series of “flipping”, with each stage’s owner not caring about next/previous stages, only that they can somehow get a profit out of their flip. That could very well end with a business buying the end-of-life equipment, scrapping & selling what they easily can, then declaring a loss on the rest & bankrupting out of further liabilities.
What this looks like:
- A confusing sales pitch to the locals (what I encountered) who don’t understand what the marketing crew cleverly portray
- Locals consenting to renting out property (big profit for leasing a very small space)
- Eyesores constructed (from a distance they may look interesting, but up close the fast-moving shadows and “infrasound” are very irritating) and lasting 10-20 years
- Major mechanical failures ending usefulness, at best turbine stop spinning, at worst turbine suffers fire & partial collapse
- Game of musical chairs stops, whoever is left standing is stuck with hulking debris which is costly to remove
- Giant eyesores remain indefinitely while nobody wants to pay for removal.
The aforementioned town passed an anti-windmill ordinance and they weren’t built. I’d have had a spectacular view of them all if built.
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