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Local Wind Turbine Being Demolished After Failure and History of Ice Throw

January 28, 2014 by Paul Crowe

A relatively small wind turbine, located at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center on Presque Isle in Erie, PA is being demolished. The wind turbine has been inoperative for quite some time, the blades and the turbine itself had fallen off due to high winds and rather than spend the money to get it repaired and […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbines

North East PA Wind Project On Hold Because Taxpayer Funded Handouts Expired

January 23, 2014 by Paul Crowe

Rumors have been circulating for a couple of weeks that the wind project planned for North East, PA and other surrounding areas had been put on hold. An article on GoErie.com confirms this is the case. Federal tax incentives for wind energy development expired Dec. 31, and that’s affected financing for new projects, said Johnny […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Politics Tagged With: wind energy retreat

Wind Turbine Falls Over in Western PA

January 18, 2014 by Paul Crowe

A wind turbine fell over in western PA for no apparent reason.

A 1.5 megawatt wind turbine fell over the other night in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh. Why it fell over has not yet been determined. During the debate here in North East over proper setbacks and public safety, pointing out events like this never seemed to have any impact on the discussion because government […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbines Tagged With: public safety, unreliable

Wind Energy Nonsense Part One: The Wind is Free

January 14, 2014 by Paul Crowe

Wind energy supporters love to say “the wind is free,” because it seems so obvious and irrefutable, they believe it supports their argument that wind turbines make sense. Unfortunately, “the wind is free,” is a meaningless talking point adding nothing to the wind energy debate and it’s just one of a long series of wind […]

Filed Under: Wind Energy Nonsense

You’re Paying for CleanTech Failures, Wind Energy is Just One

January 6, 2014 by Paul Crowe

Wind energy is just one of the highly touted “clean” energy sources heavily promoted and subsidized by the US government. Any energy source with the label of clean, green or renewable is supposed to accomplish magical things our conventional energy sources cannot, but when it comes time to produce the energy and create those often […]

Filed Under: Wind Energy Tagged With: a step backwards, boondoggle, expensive electricity, government spending, taxpayers

Government Wind Energy Money Attracting Fraud, Crime and Corruption

September 6, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Wind energy monet attracting crime and corruption

Wind energy and free money, what could possibly go wrong? Well, we’re beginning to find out. Reports from the United States and around the world show government corruption and even organized crime are starting to make an appearance in this “green” business. Hmm, … who could have predicted that? Organized crime gets into wind Europol, […]

Filed Under: Wind Energy Tagged With: government corruption, government spending, wind energy fraud, wind welfare

Wind Turbines and the Promise of Money

September 6, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Wind turbines tower over homes

Wind turbines bring the promise of money and that can cloud a person’s judgement. It certainly doesn’t have to, but sometimes, if a person isn’t careful, he’ll do things out of character, things he would otherwise not do, things he later regrets, simply because the thought of money was so overpowering. Wind developers know this […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: destroy communities, destroy view, growing resistance, pioneer green energy, population density, property value

Two Signs Show What North East Township Supervisors Do and Don’t Want You to See

August 30, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Public notice of hearing for wind energy ordinance

Two signs – two meetings – one bold – one unreadable Two different meetings scheduled one week apart. The first, for a zoning change that affects a few individuals and a small parcel of property. The second, announcing a wind energy “zoning overlay” and the wind ordinance, applies to almost half the township and will […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: wind ordinance

Too Close – Ask the People Who Live With Wind Turbines What They Think – UPDATED VIDEO

August 14, 2013 by Paul Crowe

What do people living with wind turbines really think?

While the North East Township supervisors and planning board want to move wind turbines ever closer to houses and property, taking their cue from the wind developer and those few residents who will benefit financially from turbine installations, they might want to pay attention to people who actually live near them right now. After the […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: health effects, public safety

If You Support Wind Energy Can You Handle the Truth?

August 7, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Wind energy collapsed in 2013

Have you noticed the massive misdirection now going on? For the last couple of weeks, the internet has been filled with stories about how great wind energy did in 2012. See what they’re doing? All of those stories talk about last year, but it’s now August of 2013 and, as we recently noted, wind energy […]

Filed Under: Wind Energy Tagged With: wind energy retreat

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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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