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North East Wind Speeds – Enough for Electricity or Just Enough to Collect Wind Welfare?

July 11, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Wind map speed reference that describes color coding

We want to pick up on a point we’ve raised before, how much wind does North East really have and is it enough to run an efficient and productive wind energy plant or is it just a project to qualify for government handouts, sort of a “wind welfare” project. Way back on June 15th of […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: taxpayers, wind welfare

Nordex Pulls Out as USA Wind Energy Begins to Collapse – UPDATED

July 10, 2013 by Paul Crowe

The wind industry in the USA is beginning to collapse, just like everywhere else

Nordex, one of the major wind turbine manufacturers in the world, is going to close its manufacturing plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas and return production to Germany. The plant, lured to Arkansas with millions of dollars in state incentives, will cease production after it fills current orders. When Nordex officials and the Jonesboro Regional Chamber of […]

Filed Under: Wind Energy Tagged With: losing money, wind business failing, wind energy retreat

Revised North East Wind Energy Ordinance is Great for Developers – Bad for Residents – UPDATED

July 7, 2013 by Paul Crowe

One section of a wind turbine tower

An ordinance protecting developers, but residents not so much The North East Township supervisors seem determined to use a wind energy ordinance designed for the benefit of wind developers and the few land owners who have leased their property to them. The revised draft ordinance was presented at the July 1st meeting, incorporating changes made […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Ordinance Tagged With: property value, public safety, setbacks, turbine height, wind ordinance

Green Energy Industry Collapsing in Spain as Government Support Runs Dry

June 23, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Spain green energy indusrty collapsing as government support runs out

Spain went all in on “green energy” because it was the future, it would provide jobs, and it would grow their economy, so they lavished the industry with subsidies and caps on electric rates, charging less for “renewable” electricity than the cost of producing it. It’s no wonder wind and solar companies were having a […]

Filed Under: Wind Energy Tagged With: expensive electricity, government spending, taxpayers, wind energy retreat

Make Wind Energy Compete for Private Investment Not Your Tax Dollars

June 11, 2013 by Paul Crowe

It's time for wind to get off taxpayer funded welfare

Who do you think should pay for building utility scale wind turbine installations? Individual investors who believe in “green energy” and are willing to risk their own money or Taxpayers like you when government gives wind energy companies huge incentives You probably chose option one, but that isn’t what’s happening. Wind wants a “level playing […]

Filed Under: Wind Energy Tagged With: government spending, PTC, tax credit, taxpayers, wind welfare

Pioneer Green Energy Quits Wind Project in California

June 7, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Pioneer quits Dunnigan Hills wind project

Pioneer Green Energy, the developer targeting North East with a plan for building 500 foot tall wind turbines, just quit in their efforts to build the Dunnigan Hills wind farm project in California. The project was for as many as 400 360 foot tall wind turbines and had been in the planning stages for close […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: pioneer green energy, PTC, tax credit, taxpayers, wind energy retreat, wind welfare

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Unfortunately

The less you know about wind energy,
the more you'll like it.

Why wind developers never understand …

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

~ Upton Sinclair

Don’t know – Don’t care

Is willful ignorance necessary
to promote wind energy?

No, but it helps.

Climate Change

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong. … Also, if the process of computing the consequences is indefinite, then with a little skill any experimental results can be made to look like the expected consequences.

~ Richard Feynman, 1964

It’s not on-demand, it’s no-demand

Wind energy is "no-demand" electricity. If the wind isn't blowing and you demand electricity, the answer is no.

Wind – expensive, inefficient, unreliable



December 1923 Popular Science cover dreaming about generating electricity from windmills, and though the dream never dies, the dream doesn't work, didn't then, doesn't now and without huge government giveaways of your money, no wind farms would get built anywhere. The government forces utilities to buy wind power so payments to landowners are simply wind welfare.


Wind energy runs on tax credits

"I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate, for example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit."
~ Warren Buffett - from interview with Fortune magazine

Wind investments and high cost green energy

“I’m in the wind business … I’ve lost my ass in the business. ... Hey, we can get on everything green. We can get on everything renewable. Then the cost of power will go up ten times."
~ T. Boone Pickens - on Morning Joe on MSNBC

Wind Turbine Map

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The complete map of all of the wind turbines proposed by Pioneer Green Energy in Erie County, PA and filed with the FAA. Plans not yet filed are not shown.

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