Tag: windmills

As If “Renewable Energy” Isn’t Already Blowing Itself Up?

December 19, 2022

by Skip

Heh! Reader Bruce sent this in. Not exactly as showy as the Bridges or the Buildings but I find it ironic that while we are hearing calls for “More! More!”, they are taking them down. For what reason, I don’t know: they stopped working, too expensive to maintain, putting up new ones? Who know – … Read more

Wind Farms: “Whose Gonna Clean up That Mess Down There!”

May 6, 2021

by Skip

Bill Cosby, in a very old skit about Noah’s Ark, wanted to know (Noah wanted to know) who would be responsible for cleaning up all that animal poop in the bilges after 40 days and 40 nights while God unleashed the rains to cleanse a sinful world. Well, that applies to “renewables.”

Ruminations on Big Corporations, Big Government and Trump

February 20, 2021

by Steve Earle

Counter to some opinions I am concerned about our environment. I just don’t believe the answer is windmills and solar panels (made in China usually), nor do I think we in the U.S. are the problem except for plastics. Darn plastics are everywhere, all over everything and it lasts for like a thousand years.

Donald Trump’s Impossible Dreams

December 14, 2020December 14, 2020

by Peter Lemiska

The blind hatred that consumes President Trump’s enemies is reflected in their poisonous rhetoric, which long ago exceeded inflammatory. It’s become utterly insane. They’ve labeled the president a white supremacist, a racist, a fascist, a tyrant, and even a traitor.

Wait! Wait! What’s the deal – they’re renewable, right?

November 5, 2019November 5, 2019

by Skip

Germany’s Giant Windmills Are Wildly Unpopular. It’s getting harder to get permission to erect the turbine towers. Local regulations are getting stricter. Bavaria decided back in 2014 that the distance between a wind turbine and the nearest housing must be 10 times the height of the mast, which, given the density of dwellings, makes it … Read more

HB580 – Moratorium on Windmills

September 26, 2018February 18, 2013

by Skip

I went up to Skip’s Gun shop on Saturday to conduct some business and as always, Skip and I spent a few moments talking politics and he mentioned that a bill that he is the prime sponsor on is coming up for hearing tomorrow. This normally would be taking place in one of the usual hearing rooms but given the outcry of people, especially in Grafton County where foreign companies are trying to put up multi-million dollar windmills, the hearing has been shifted to the Hall of Representatives at 1pm (again, tomorrow!). Several hundred people are expected to attend.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen

AN ACT establishing moratoriums on wind turbine plants and electric transmission line projects.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Moratoriums; Wind Turbine Plants; Electric Transmission Line Projects. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, there are hereby established moratoriums on the construction of wind turbine plants and electric transmission line projects in the state of New Hampshire until the state issues a comprehensive energy plan. The site evaluation committee, established in RSA 162-H:3, shall issue no certificates for wind turbine plants and electric transmission line projects under RSA 162-H while such moratoriums are in effect.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Think of this, however; the local community in which they will be built is probably rubbing their hands in glee – ” look at all that new property tax revenue!”. But what is the downside? I can think of one, certainly!

Environmentalists who love crony capitalism

September 26, 2018September 21, 2012

by Skip

Because they can’t stand seeing their fellow citizens ignoring their bleats of “You shouldn’t do that” in some cases (like, you know, use electricity to live a modern lifestyle, or be allowed to drive a car that can, like, you know, can actually hold all of your family members and the grocery bags needed to feed them for a week – in 1 trip). So, they’ve convinced elected politicians (or increasingly, the unelected bureaucrats that doing the pols’ job). They certainly are in favor in taking away choice in little ways as in what kind of light bulbs you may purchase.

And when it comes to industries they like, like all things green, they are bound and determined not to let “green go dark” simply because the Free Market hates their ideas. From that ever amusing, ever complaining, bastion of Watermelon Environmentalism (otherwise known as TreeHugger), the denizens are complaining about the Federal Venture Capital spigot being turned off (gee, and I thought ALL forms of conservation was good – including conserving our tax dollars!).