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Hot Weather and No Wind Underscore a Basic Flaw in Wind Energy

July 19, 2013 by Paul Crowe

High temperatures nationwide and no wind

For the last couple of weeks, a large portion of the US has been experiencing temperatures in the 80s and 90s. If you have air conditioning, you’re using it all day, every day. If you walk outside into the heat, you’ll notice something else, there’s no wind. This common occurrence every summer, high temps and […]

Filed Under: Wind Energy Tagged With: intermittent, unreliable

Germany Joins Countries Retreating from Expensive Green Energy Revolution

July 14, 2013 by Paul Crowe

You don't need conventional power plants, all you need are few wind turbines.

Despite assurances from wind and solar advocates, the switch to “green energy” isn’t going so well. Germany, a country that signed on for a big push to replace all of their nuclear plants with sunshine and wind and included the all too common mandates and subsidies for renewable energy and who refused to use natural […]

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

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

Wind Energy is Not Green, It’s Just Energy

May 28, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Meet your new neighbors

Are you a straight talking, “let’s just get to the facts” sort of person? Would you rather not talk politics? Well, wind energy won’t let you do that, because wind energy, which should be all about the science, is almost always, all about the politics. It’s really frustrating and it all starts with the color […]

Filed Under: Wind Energy Tagged With: government regulations, special privilege

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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

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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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