Posted on 08/13/2018 5:25:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump ridiculed windmills as a source of energy on Monday, professing his appreciation for coal instead. The president spoke about energy during a fundraiser in New York, pointing out that coal was an “indestructible” form of energy, but it was easy to destroy a windmill.
Why Windmills are the Worst — by @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/t5WqMu9hSe
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) August 13, 2018
“Bing, that’s the end of that windmill,” Trump said, imitating someone shooting a windmill.
The president pointed out that windmills also kill birds.
“They kill so many birds, you look underneath some of those windmills, it’s like a killing field of birds,” Trump continued.
In a 2013 study, Researchers estimated that windmills kill as many as 328,000 birds a year.
Trump also pointed out that windmills were useless if the wind was not blowing and had to be subsidized to be profitable.
“Who wants to have energy when you need a subsidy?” he asked.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Require much maintenance.
Windmills = Pinwheels
Everyone knows windmills are a scam.. when you add up their manufacture transport and installation costs they don’t even produce enough energy to make money over their typical life expectancy. It’s a complete scam
Trump is all business.
Bada bing bada boom.
That’s our POTUS, speaking truths once more.
People are being paid around $20,000.00 annually for having a windmill put on their property. Some farmers have multiple windmills on their land and collect a huge sum of money each year from our very stupid Ontario government. It was an issue in the last election, as they’re costing taxpayers a fortune and not producing much energy. Such a scam. Thank the environmentalist whackos....again.
And they are ugly. They ruin the landscape, and they are noisy.
The same is true of solar panels.
Is it a Donald Quixote thing?
I can;t speak to noisy....but they damned sure are an eyesore and a waste of money.
Another Obama scam.
Windmills are an idiotic wast of money and I have to believe nothing good will one from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of birds every month.
Oh they started before Obama. They are a blight on the planet.
Ahem “ nothing good will come from”
Damn auto fill
It's a backward step.
TSTC (Texas state tech college) was dumb enough to embrace this technology into a program:
http://www.tstc.edu/programs/WindEnergyTechnology
When I attended, the running joke was Too Stupid To Conceive.
Nuclear?
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