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This week, the US Government held an auction for major wind projects in the Gulf of Mexico. There’s bad news: The US Interior Department tried to lease out three wind blocks in the Gulf of Mexico off the shores of Texas and Louisiana. There were zero bids for the two wind blocks in Texas. There … Read more
Look up dirty wind, and you’ll find plenty to read on these pages, but not everyone has that sort of time. But wind power is dirty, and it’s not a secret, except that the left does not want to talk about it.
As New Hampshire muddles through another statewide power outage energy and electricity are on people’s minds. So, is this a good time to point out another issue with green energy policy (in NH and elsewhere). Wind Turbine blades can’t be recycled. Ever.
The BBC, an otherwise reliable cog in the globalist green energy agenda, is in a tizzy. It seems they’ve discovered a common material used in Green Energy infrastructure produces 23,500 times as much warming as CO2.
Wind power is expensive, unreliable, decimates local wildlife populations, and requires additional fossil fuel generation for backup. Despite its many shortcomings, green warriors love it, but will they love this? An analysis of almost 3,000 onshore wind turbines warns that wind turbines will only generate electricity effectively for 12 to 15 years.
H/T TDCSB
Aside from the hundreds of billions in misguided government support, wind power doesn’t have much going for it. It is not clean or green. It kills bats, birds, and now whales. And in Scotland, they’ve had to admit that without diesel generators to warm and back up the turbines, they might work at all.
The Left and Eco-Socialist crowds are always yammering about the “subsidies” that the fossil fuel industry gets and telling that it isn’t fair. Well, nothing in life is fair like how they blame the industry and not the CongressTwits that put those laws into effect.
The US is moving from being a High Trust Society to one of Low Trust and nowhere is it easy to see than in politics. Both Consistency and Loyalty are hard to come by attributes – almost non-existent.
I actually think the NBA line is a little more biting – and true. (H/T: Powerline)
If you look at the complete manifold of global energy needs Wind power’s contribution is too small to measure. In 2014 (the last year for which there is data) the nearest whole number for wind’s contribution is zero percent. From the International Energy Agency’s 2016 Key Renewables Trends, we can see that wind provided 0.46 … Read more
GM revving up to create new V-8 engines as EVs flounder Americans aren’t as excited about electric vehicles (EVs) as they once were, so now General Motors (GM) is getting back in the gas-burning game. The company announced a major production shift at its Tonawanda Propulsion plant in New York state. GM has abandoned its … Read more
The lessons of Chinese ‘kill switches’ and Spain’s blackout. Recent revelations that Chinese-manufactured electricity inverters in US solar fields contain radio-controlled “kill switches” that could be used to sabotage the nation’s electrical power grid have raised eyebrows about energy security. The aging US grid system has not been upgraded to keep pace with the increased … Read more
Just weeks after the Iberian Peninsula went dark thanks to an overreliance on unreliable energy, New Orleans had 100,000 customers left in the dark. The power outage came with a three-minute warning as providers were forced to kill the juice to avoid imminent widespread and longer blackouts. Grid instability issues threatened to produce a much … Read more
So-called clean energy, like wind and solar, were supposed to save the world from allegedly manmade climate change. But what about toxic manufacturing pollution and devastation to wildlife? These conflicting interests are visible in the tension caused by the recent pause in construction on the Empire Wind project near New York. The Trump administration doesn’t … Read more
For those of you who thought a Donald Trump presidency brought with it the relief from the left’s hyper-sexualizing of children agenda think again. This past week the Hartland Public Library held a Drag Queen Story Hour with Vermont’s infamous duo Katniss Everqueer and Emoji Nightmare. Also openly grooming children is the Rainbow club of … Read more
Surging live cattle prices reflect the fundamental economic adage that reduced supplies drive up prices as long as demand remains firm. Americans are not giving up their passion for hamburgers and T-bones anytime soon, and the nation’s beef herd has shrunk to its lowest level in decades. This is good news for farmers, but they, … Read more
The Wind Industry has to decide if it can survive four years of Donald Trump. I am here to tell you that the prognosis is not good, and that this makes me happy. The executive orders, dropping out of climate agreements, terminating taxpayer-backed prop-ups without which it can’t compete, and putting the green energy giant … Read more
While the Gulf of Maine boondoggle is on hold pending review despite existing undeveloped lease sales, we’ve been stomping on the accelerator to increase public awareness to stop it. We’ve published a few dozen posts on why it’s a bad idea, not the least of which is GOM advocates past remarks about how fragile its … Read more
“Act worthy of yourselves.”That’s how the great patriot and Revolutionary War hero Dr. Joseph Warren urged the people to commemorate the Boston Massacre, which happened today in history – March 5, 1770. In the face of a standing army occupier – and direct threats to his own life – Warren pressed the people to stand … Read more