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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

Wind Farm Construction in the Strange World of Production Tax Credits

May 18, 2013 by Paul Crowe

This comes later, the money comes first

Wind energy seems to exist in a parallel universe where even simple words like “construction” no longer mean what you think they do. Why is that? The old way You know what construction projects look like, lots of construction workers in hardhats, bulldozers and backhoes, dump trucks and dirt and when combined with hard work […]

Filed Under: Wind Energy Disadvantages Tagged With: PTC, tax credit, taxpayers

If its All About the Money, Are Wind Turbines the Best Choice?

May 16, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Is this really the best we can do?

In all of the discussions leading up to this wind turbine project in North East, you might hear the promoters talk about “green energy” or “renewable energy,” one local farmer talks about how wind fits in with his stewardship of the land and helping the entire country while a spokesman for the Lake Erie Region […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Community Involvement Tagged With: government spending, special privilege, tax credit, taxpayers, wind welfare

What Really Powers Wind Turbines? Lots and Lots of Government Money

April 28, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Wind energy is expensive and uncompetitive and would not exist without government subsidies

Wind turbines are popping up in more and more rural communities, yet wind turbines, like so many other “green energy” projects, represent a business that can’t stand on its own two feet without massive government involvement, from tax subsidies and tax credits to outright grants and the result is increasingly expensive electricity from locations with […]

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