Bet you didn’t see that one coming
(Climate Realists) Southwestern Ontario’s flourishing wind energy industry came under fire Wednesday from the co-founder of Greenpeace.
Dr. Patrick Moore told more than 1,000 area farmers the industry destroys more jobs than it creates, and causes energy prices to climb for all users.
“The industry is a destroyer of wealth and negative to the economy,” said Moore, speaking at the 19th annual Southwest Agricultural Conference at Ridgetown campus of the University of Guelph.
Moore, who now refers to himself as the “sensible environmentalist,” said the solar bubble has burst and thinks the wind bubble is about to burst. (snip)
“They are ridiculously expensive and don’t work half the time,” he said. “And no matter how many are built, they won’t replace coal, gas or hydro or nuclear plants, because they are continuous and wind is not always reliable.”
And therein lies the problem: when it is too cold, they shut down. When it is too windy, they have to be shut down. When there is no wind, they don’t turn. They kill lots of birds. They are loud. They provide little power. They industry would collapse without government money. And, what becomes of them when they rust away, leaving monuments to idiocy?
Yes, I am still for wind power, but, I’ve always maintained that the focus should be on small size projects, preferably to provide energy for individual domiciles, where batteries could store excess power.
Oh, and look, the Golden Eagle is imperiled due to wind farms.
