Sunday, October 25, 2009
Wind power = fossil fuels
From NRO:
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Wind power is now the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme and possibly the next subprime mortgage meltdown as well. As Professor Michael J. Trebilcock, professor of economics at the University of Toronto, said in testifying before the Canadian Parliament last April:
Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone). . . . Its electricity generation costs are the highest in Europe (15¢/kwh compared to Ontario’s current rate of about 6¢). Niels Gram of the Danish Federation of Industries says, “windmills are a mistake and economically make no sense.” Aase Madsen, the Chair of Energy Policy in the Danish Parliament, calls it “a terribly expensive disaster.”
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Repeating those figures:
Denmark now gets 19% of its electricity from wind.
This requires 50% more coal, and produces 36% more pollution than before.
In other words, "wind power" is not a source of power at all. It's a use of power. Turbines are just a fashionable hippie style, and the price of this fashion is increased use of fossil fuels and increased pollution.
Wind power advocates in America have been surprisingly honest about this; TBoone has made it clear that his sole reason for pushing windmills was to sell more of his natural gas. And yet the fucking idiots in DC continue to sell wind. (Which is what they've always done anyway.) ¶ 9:49 AM
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Wind power is now the world’s biggest Ponzi scheme and possibly the next subprime mortgage meltdown as well. As Professor Michael J. Trebilcock, professor of economics at the University of Toronto, said in testifying before the Canadian Parliament last April:
Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone). . . . Its electricity generation costs are the highest in Europe (15¢/kwh compared to Ontario’s current rate of about 6¢). Niels Gram of the Danish Federation of Industries says, “windmills are a mistake and economically make no sense.” Aase Madsen, the Chair of Energy Policy in the Danish Parliament, calls it “a terribly expensive disaster.”
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Repeating those figures:
Denmark now gets 19% of its electricity from wind.
This requires 50% more coal, and produces 36% more pollution than before.
In other words, "wind power" is not a source of power at all. It's a use of power. Turbines are just a fashionable hippie style, and the price of this fashion is increased use of fossil fuels and increased pollution.
Wind power advocates in America have been surprisingly honest about this; TBoone has made it clear that his sole reason for pushing windmills was to sell more of his natural gas. And yet the fucking idiots in DC continue to sell wind. (Which is what they've always done anyway.) ¶ 9:49 AM
