Good news! Donald Trump just won the election yesterday and already today shares in Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, were falling. As we are always saying, “Without government subsidies to the wind industry, there is no wind industry.” Sales of wind turbines depend entirely on taxpayer money to create a demand and keep […]
You’re Paying for CleanTech Failures, Wind Energy is Just One
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 […]
Wind Installations Grind to a Halt With Zero Installed Nationwide in 2nd Quarter of 2013
We’ve been trying to point out just how bad the collapse of wind energy really is, but some of you might think we’ve only been showing you a few cherry picked facts, so here’s something for you to consider from the American Wind Energy Association, the wind energy trade group. Only 1.6 megawatts (MW) of […]
North East Officials Seem Unaware of Worldwide Wind Energy Retreat
BP, the huge oil company that operates a wind energy division, has been trying for the past four months to sell it. Unfortunately, it couldn’t find any buyers. The sale was seen as a continuation of the retreat of big oil companies from renewable energy investments while oil and gas projects offer them better returns. […]
Government Support of Wind Energy is Really Wind Welfare
Let’s cut to the chase, most of us are tired of the government taking more and more money from taxpayers like you and me and giving it to whatever individuals or companies make the most noise, and that’s exactly what wind energy is, just one more big government welfare program. Wind Welfare Landowners signing leases […]
North East Wind Speeds – Enough for Electricity or Just Enough to Collect Wind Welfare?
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 […]