******* dumb comments. Outright lies and half truths are all these luddites have.
Snowflake....what are you
talking about?!? There are no "half-truths" here. Seattle just installed three wind turbines at a cost of $107,000. Because they generate a laughable and pitiful $1.39 per day in electricity (or a pathetic $42 per month), it will take 53 years to break even on these idiotic devices. And that's only if they don't need to be replaced or require no maintenance (which we all know is impossible).
The "green energy" is an idiotic pipe dream. Some day it will be a great solution, but we are still
many decades away from it being a viable energy source. The left always embraces failed ideologies, technologies, etc.
#GreenFail: Taxpayers Foot $107K Bill for Wind Turbines That Don’t Work
And this is the idiots response. So if there's a drilling for oil and it comes up empty that means using oil at all is a failed system we need to move on from? I mean that's your logic if you switch the situation.
You are basing your entirety of wind not working on three ten foot tall turbines used for aesthetics in a park. Next thing you'll be saying that Guitars don't really make music cause you saw one on the wall at a hard rock and it didn't play right buttercup?
Wind energy is brand new as far as catching on. And prices for it are plummeting. UNSUBSIDIZED vs. UNSUBSIDIZED, including capital costs and operating costs, Lazard (top asset management firm) has wind energy costing between $32-$62 per megawatt hour. Coal between $60 and $140. That's a 90% decrease on the cost in the past 30 years for wind.
And why are you saying it's the left that is embracing it? This is being embraced by Texas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Kansas, Wyoming, Iowa, South Dakota, Idaho, and Oklahoma. About as far to the right as states get. Kansas and Iowa are on the chase to see who gets to create over half their states energy by wind, should find out who in the next year or two. Are you really trying to claim that those are the states that are hotbeds of liberal left wingers?
I mean the topic out here right now is linking up the electrical from the midwest with California to start supplying energy for them. You are that against Californian's writing checks to people in Wyoming and Kansas?
We import about 5 million barrels of oil/natural gas more than we export. Meaning our cash flow is heading right out the door, and a big chunk of it is making a lot of Islamic ruled countries VERY happy and very powerful. If we can make some of that up by finding home built energy sources.
As a Republican I say HELL YES I am for that, especially when these are being made in the US, by Americans, for Americans rather than relying on the middle east and giving them our money. So what if it's green.