Wind farms: The monuments to lunacy that will be left to blot the landscape. These pointless monstrosities will continue to proliferate until the Government sees sense ... [It] is fast becoming a full-scale disaster bearing down on Britain. – UK Telegraph/ Christopher Booker blog
Dominant Social Theme: Wind and solar power are good, indeed. They are kind to the environment and provide plenteous sources of cheap energy.
Free-Market Analysis: This blog-article by Christopher Booker brings up fundamental points about the dysfunction of wind power in Britain. But one could make the case that the same problems affect mainland Europe and the US as well.
We try to track elite memes, and it seems to us that – as we have long anticipated – time may be running out for the latest alternative energy movement. There are several turning points we think we are witnessing.
When the latest green mania subsides, the alternative energy movement will be seen for the nonsensical fad it is. During the 1970s, billions were wasted on ludicrous energy schemes that had no chance of working out.
The first decade of the 2000s has in many ways been a repetition of the 1970s, with the same dominant social themes of "sustainable energy" being promoted by the elites – with the same eventual problems and dysfunction.
We recently wrote about an FBI raid on the solar-power company Solyndra, which received $535 million in federal loans under a green energy program promoted by President Barack Obama. The Obama administration's fingerprints are all over Solyndra, which was apparently supposed to be a showcase for solar power. Instead, it is broke. Solyndra may mark a turning point for solar power in the US.
Now comes this article in the Telegraph about wind power. It repeats many of the criticisms that we have read elsewhere. Wind turbines are huge, inefficient behemoths and anyone who lives near one of them is likely to be driven daft by the incessant whooshing noises when they are turned on. Here's some more from the article:
In the nine years since I began writing here about wind turbines, I have been approached by more than 100 local campaigns in every part of Britain, trying to fight the rich and powerful companies subsidy bonanza available to developers of wind farms. Having been the chairman of one such group myself, I know just how time-consuming and costly such battles can be.
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5 comments:
i've been reading articles like this for the past 3-4 years. the complaints are legion. the residents are at a loss as to what they can do to stop the horrible, annoying, constant, never ending noise.
money savings a JOKE.
money in pockets of "investors"; huge........
Once the huge government subsidies are removed the wind turbine movement will collapse. Those politically connected to Obama (Immelt at GE) will walk away rich, and the tax payers will get stuck with the bill. This is not an industry that will last, it is an industry designed to suck government payments that benefit the lucky few picked for political reasons.
It is a sham! a hoax and theft!
Just like Al Gore that had a majority stake in the patented carbon trading market, until the hoax of global warming was revealed and his scheme fell thru.
It's not about saving the planet, it's about making a very few unbelievably rich.
And moving it off shore not only just kills birds out there at a more alarming rate( after all, where do they have to land there now?) the voltage loss at 10 miles and maintenance of mills and lines will be astronomical. Dumbest idea in the world, so let's use taxpayer dollars to do it. After all, any intelligent energy producing company won't touch it with YOUR ten foot pole!
Voltage loss at ten miles? So you're saying there are power plants less than every ten miles? I have to disagree, solar power is not quite technologically feasible, but wind is. It's a NIMBY thing though, the noise sucks if you're close, but I'm sure it's not all biscuits and gravy living next to any other kind of power plant. Buying a small scale wind turbine to assist with powering your home is cost-effective, and pays for itself within five years. Large-scale costs more, but of course will return the investment as well...
Alternative energy is just like health insurance in this country.
Because of the greedy wanting to be richer, they are both virtually unaffordable for many.
Take the "greed" out of them and they'd have more business than they could handle, and we'd ALL be better off!
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