Trump: No Wind, No Solar

Last year, county commissioners approved a 3,845 acre “solar farm” to be constructed just south of Cheyenne. I hate to see the beautiful Wyoming landscape besmirched with solar panels and wind turbines.

It sets my teeth on edge to see these eyesore windmills on the horizon. In fifteen years these monstrosities will have to be taken apart, and their unrecyclable blades taken to the world's largest dumps. Large scale solar and wind projects should disappear forever. Wasteful. Sight pollution. Give us energy that works--not this stuff that makes Gorons and the Chinese rich. Also, it cheered me to read Hinderaker's takedown of the stupid politicians who favor "all of the above" energy policies. Use coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear ... but get rid of "renewable" energy. Large scale solar and wind were bad ideas from the beginning.

If someone has a crystal ball and wants to invest in these technologies privately, as far as i know they are still able to. Someday maybe better batteries will be available, or better generators, or more efficient motors. We have made great strides over the years in those departments and there may be fortunes to be made down the road. Until then, it should not be public policy that we are forced to pay for the failed experiments.

It is a scam but it goes far beyond that. The whole reason to consider wind or solar is to combat "global warming". Yes, they prefer the amorphous "climate change" but if the planet was cooling, why would we need to avoid CO2 buildup which they claim is causing warming. CO2 is an essential gas, required for life on this planet to exist. As it has risen, plant yields have increased resulting in a much greener planet and more food. So, the "warming" is the supposed real issue. The political story is based on a fear for survival. Even though there is no science to support it, people are fearful that temperatures will increase without limit and there will be mass extinctions and humans will live horrendous lives on a a ruined planet. To counter this, we are told we have to abandon the energy rich civilization that has brought far better living and wealth to the world. But it's all a lie. The pseudo science and political corruption is being exposed. The "science" just doesn't hold up. The predicted warming hasn't happened. What warming has happened can easily be explained as coming from sources that are beyond human control. But THAT science can't be used for political leverage so it is resisted. And note, the target of the politics is aimed directly at the US. Other countries produce high levels of CO2 and nothing much seems to be done about it. The REAL goal is to destroy our country's economic system and thereby our strength. So it's not just a solar and wind economic scam. It a targeted effort to undermine our country with a "threat" that simply does not exist and even if there is some warming, it lays beyond our control to "fix" it. Some of the people that push this are evil. Some are control freaks. Others are just morons. If some people want to use solar or wind, THEY should pay for it. Our governments should get out of the subsidy business and stop taking our money to support fraudulent and destructive things.

I certainly do not think you can run NYC on solar or windmills. But perhaps some private citizen living in AZ can utilize solar to his advantage. I don't want to take that option from him. But to insist that taxpayer money be used to force us to pay for this boondoggle is criminal. Privately do what you want if it is acceptable in your neighborhood but leave the rest of us alone. We all know that these sources of energy are poor at best. Perhaps one day, YEARS from now they will be more affordable and reliable. That time is not now. I love my gas stove and gas car. Leave me the hell alone.

Here in Virginia we have the following: "On a recent summer day, under blue skies, a 272-feet tall, 31-feet wide, 1,500-ton steel cylinder was being pushed into the ocean floor 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach. The process will be repeated for months as Dominion Energy builds the country’s largest offshore wind project. source: https://coastalvawind.com/the-latest/news So far, the Trump Administration has not shut this monstrosity down. When completed, there will be 176 wind turbines off of Virginia Beach. ARGH!!!!

Solar produces at rated levels from 10AM to 4PM on average. It doesn't cover the peak early morning hours or early evening hours. It produces extra electricity during periods when you already have plenty.

Per #6, solar panels - fully bought and paid for without government subsidy - on a home rooftop in the sunny Southwest are a great and very practical innovation. Nowhere else, and wind turbines nowhere at all.

A typical state needs 6k to 10k sq miles of solar to replace 50k MegaWatts of coal fired turbines which only use a mere 10 sq miles. Thus for solar a minimum of 6k sq miles, plowed up and covered in aggregate so nothing will grow for hundreds of years. Can't have weeds growing up into those solar panels. And in 20 years when it is agreed that this technology is useless that land will only be good as a parking lot for a couple hundred years.

Wind and solar are purely scams. Laws written to take money from taxpayers and give it to 'entrepreneurs' who are actually con men. I have a cabin in the remote mountains of Colorado where electric lines couldn't be run for a reasonable cost 30+ years ago, so I designed and built a limited solar capacity to power the lights, a sat TV system and the RV water pump, pumping from a cistern. All other power is propane or wood. This works, for a vacation cabin, mostly because I designed and installed it myself. But it is quirky, requires someone like me to keep it going....water the storage batteries, etc. "NOT ready for grid power. Windmills are similar. Intermittent power, not ready for prime time.

When we first moved here to the homestead 26 years ago, we had so many birds of so many varieties; a couple of golden eagles, red-tail hawks, ravens, turkey buzzards, robins, wrens, sparrows, and other songbirds. We even had the twice-yearly migration of large flocks of doves. They are all mostly gone. We have so few birds that any sighting is exciting. I brought up the subject of the missing dove flocks to TK a few nights ago during "deck time". I supposed that perhaps the doves changed their migration pattern. TK pointed out that birds generally don't change their major migration routes, but now there are all those windmills the "greenies" put up in the Altamont Pass east of San Francisco. God damn the environmental man!

Driving from mostly beautiful Virginia to see a son in Utah this summer, I had my first real exposure to "wind farms". Next time I'll go back to flying.

Bring on the small nuclear reactors.