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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 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 officials and other supporters felt failures of this sort always happened somewhere far away or it was an extreme situation of some type and it didn’t apply because it could never happen here.

Western PA wind turbine collapse. Nothing to see here, move along. This never happens.

Western PA wind turbine collapse. Nothing to see here, move along. This never happens.

More and more people are beginning to see how wind energy itself cannot stand without massive government involvement. The wind energy production tax credit has finally expired after 21 years of taxpayer support. The wind industry will collapse, too, just like this wind turbine because without taxpayers footing the bill, wind energy is simply too expensive and unreliable to make sense.

Link: WPXI news

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

What can you do?

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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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