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Saturday, June 6, 2015

Wind energy is unreliable, expensive and utterly impractical

By Rich Kozlovich

I would like to draw everyone’s attention to a site I’ve visited before but didn’t have the time to explore – akdart.com.  Apparently its run by a man named “Andrew K. Dart who is a broadcast engineer in Dallas, Texas.” I’ve gone to his site before, as I did today, because it was listed in the “source” section of my stats page and I wanted to find out what was there drawing readers to my blog.  This site is amazingly full of links to any and every issue facing humanity.  I must believe the only reason it’s not well know is because this site clearly supports traditional and conservative values. 

This is the section he maintains for wind energy articles stating: Wind - Unreliable, expensive and utterly impractical.   He goes on to say in some opening dialogue:

Personally, I'd love to have a big windmill generator in my back yard, since there is plenty of wind in this part of the country. It would help take the edge off my electric bill even if the windmill only supplied power to my hot water heater. But the wind doesn't blow constantly or even predictably, so I would be unable to depend on it. To run my kitchen appliances on a calm day, I would have to have an enormous battery bank and a very large inverter. (See the commentary about locomotive batteries at the top of this page). And even if the wind blew all day and all night, I'd have a hard time generating power as cheaply as I could buy it from the local electric utility.

I am astonished to hear lately that many liberal environmentalists are opposed to windmills because they are unsightly or because they sometimes kill birds. But if they can be used to reduce your electric bill, wouldn't they look really good? Isn't this the "renewable energy" the environmentalists are so excited about?

The use of windmills as an alternative to petroleum and nuclear power is utterly futile, considering that the total amount of electricity generated by solar and wind power is equivalent to the energy output of only one medium-sized coal mine, or the equivalent of about 76,000 barrels of oil a day. [1] [2]

Truth is the sublime convergence of history and reality.  The history of wind energy – going back to the Carter administration - has been abysmal, and reality demonstrates nothing has changed.  It’s a disaster economically, environmentally, and has serious health consequences that leftists would be screaming about if it involved coal, oil, natural gas or nuclear energy – and media would be blaring their screams into the nation’s televisions nightly.  We know – absolutely know – the "need" for alternative energy was based on two lies - we were running out of "fossil" fuels and CO2 was warming the atmosphere to disastrous levels.  All blantantly false!  We also absolutely know wind energy is a disaster.   Why hasn’t it been shut down?  

Now we find some in the green movement are against the very alternatives they’ve promoted.  So if they’re against both alternative and traditional energy – what energy would be totally acceptable to the green movement?  Clearly the answer is none!  How can any rational person not question the sanity of such a movement along with their myrmidons in government and the media?

Please enjoy this list, which goes back to at least 2008 and possibly more.  

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