This just drips with irony. We’re using windmills to combat global warming and it’s too cold for the windmills to work. But, if they use heat generated by electricity or natural gas at each turbine they can get them working again. That’s efficient.
At least Minnesota’s windmills didn’t just fall over. That’s worse.
I kinda love the irony and schadenfreude involved in that, but truth be told I don’t have anything against trying to harness energy from something that’s constantly there like the wind or sun.
What I DO have a problem with is artificially inflating the price of energy provided by coal, natural gas or oil through punitive taxation or ‘carbon offset fees’ as proposed in Cap & trade. Simply put, that POS bill that passed in the house last summer will murder jobs in the oil refining, energy exploration, oil and natural gas drilling, coal mining, pipeline and railway industries (many railways’ lifeblood to this day is hauling coal to power plants). Let wind, Nuclear and solar compete with those energy forms through free enterprise, no government imposed restrictions on their would-be competitors.
P.S. Upstate NY sits on top of two natural gas deposits- the Utica Shale and the Marcellus shale. Have the greens from NYC successfully driven out those eeeevil job-providing natural gas exploration companies that want to do hydraulic fracture drilling?
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They are doing their best – every day there’s another hydrofracking protest. We’ll just sit on top of the gas and leave it in the ground. The funny thing is, Paterson’s all for it. He wants to tax it!
As for wind mills, I have no problem with the technology. And if free people want to build wind mills and sell the electricity they produce, fine with me. But when gov’t “invests” our money in unreliable energy sources, I have a problem with that. Wind isn’t reliable and certainly can’t be looked at as a way to replace fossil fuels or nuclear power.
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Heh….you’re probably not a fan of ethanol, then.
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No, not much! I like to eat corn.
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