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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

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

North East Wind Turbines are All Cost and No Benefit

May 22, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Watch what happens to property values when wind turbines go up

The other day we asked why anyone would want to build wind turbines in North East Township. No one stepped forward to answer and the question continues to puzzle us. The longer we ponder, the more it becomes clear, for the residents of North East Township the wind turbine project is all cost and no […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: destroy communities, destroy view, expensive electricity, intermittent, special privilege

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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