Would there be a single wind farm if your taxes weren't paying for them?

Question

Wind turbine farms have got to be the biggest con of the global warming religion.
The pros make claims such as "This windfarm will produce enough power for 100,000 homes", knowing full well that they should complete the statement by saying "For one hour per day only".
Further to this they will not replace a single fossil fuel burning or nuclear power station.
If the global warming zealots can lie to us and try to mislead us in this way , why should we believe a single word they say?
Your thoughts please.

LEMON TWIST;
As I believe in the absolute right to free speech, I'll let your insult pass but your tirade does indicate you have a level of intelligence a little lower than an amoeba's.

Answer 1

First, there are many wind farms which produce quite significant amounts of power. Everyone understands that windpower is still in the experimental stage -- if there were no experiments it would not have achieved the amazing advances in efficiency that it has shown in the last 20 years. And everyone understands that wind power is intermittent. They also understand that it is likely to be a major source of power in the future - that's why several major oil companies are heavily involved in wind research.

The Global Warming religion, as you call it, seems to have be winning a lot of converts. All the people who know how to read a science report for a starter. You should check out a few of the refereed papers that have been written by scientists outside the USA (- they're not Democrats, you know?) that over and over present very strong evidence that Global Warming is real and we need to do something about it right now.

I would really like to see the names of Global Warming deniers carved in a cliff somewhere so that in 100 years the people will be able to see who was responsible for making things much worse than they had to be. That should make your grandchildren proud.

Answer 2

Actually, it's far more appropriate to ask this for nuclear energy. In terms of power production, the grid doesn't really care about intermittent power supply at the moment - since most other sources (e.g. hydroelectric, coal, etc.) can be tuned up and down, so you can easily adjust to compensate for wind's absence or presence. What matters, then, is the cost per kilowatt hour of production. There, wind is quite cheap and competitive. By contrast, nuclear costs 3-5 times as much as any other form of energy. The only reason it continues to be used? So we can produce plutonium for use in nuclear weapons. Period.

Eventually, of course, you're right - intermittence will be a huge problem if we decide to phase out all coal-based production. The solution to this is to develop good power storage mechanisms.

Answer 3

fossil fuels won't last forever, nuclear power cannot give us all our power as the waste stays radioactive for thousands of years so eventually it will be impossible to dispose of if thats what we relied on and wind farms are a step in the clean and recylable energy source direction. They might not be perfect but i think your figures are a little off, the government isn't completely stupid and where do you think our money will go when we have to pay even higher energy prices because fossil fuels get low and theres no room to put any more nuclear plants.

Answer 4

What about solar power? no one seems to mention solar power much! After all.....doesn't almost all energy for life on earth come from the sun anyway? (barring the bit of heat from the earths core), and wont the sun last for waaaay longer than the human race is ever going to? surely if everyone just put a couple of solar panels on their roof, there would be very little visual pollution, unlike with wind farms and hydro power alternatives, and it would mean we burn less fossil fuels?

Answer 5

surely any alternative energy source is better than none. If everyone had a small wind turbine generating some of their electricity then we would not need to burn so much fossil fuel.

Answer 6

I would have one if I lived in the proper area. You can have money deducted from your electricity bill, the meter actually runs backwards, for what you generate. They are a good alternate energy in mountains or near the shore.

Answer 7

YOU ARE A TOTAL ASSHOLE.

WHY BUILD SOMETHING THAT DOESNT WORK, KNOWING IT DOESN'T WORK AND WASTING PRECIOUS TAX DOLLARS??

WHO POLITICALLY WOULD ALLOW SUCH AN ACTION GIVEN THE DEGREE OF SCRUTINY APPLIED TO EVERY PENNY OF TAX REVENUE EXPENDITURE??

GET A LIFE YOU LOSER.

Answer 8

when the cost of fuel rockets up, then it will be attractive.
people just want to spend less.
most are too selfish to think about the environment.