Wind Turbines = Enormous "Unintended" Consequences
The inevitable result when political science is substituted for real Science
I have written about certain bad aspects of wind turbines before — like here and here.
This post is a brief, simple overview of the many widespread adverse consequences of industrial wind energy. To keep it simplified, I’ve even minimized the references — but they exist for each of the statements below.
These “side effects” are the 100% guaranteed results when our technical policies are written by lobbyists, and passed by virtue-signaling non-critical thinking Legislators.
Put another way, this is what happens when Science is replaced by political science.
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Manufacture = Ecological Disaster (China re processing rare earths)
Installation = Ecological Disaster (trees killed, farmland lost, hydrological impacts)
Operation = Ecological Disaster (wildlife pillage, from whale deaths to eagle killings)
Decommissioning = Ecological Disaster (turbine blades are HUGE toxic materials)
Indirect Health Consequences: Fentanyl Deaths (Chinese criminal gangs are heavily involved in the huge amount of rare earths needed by wind turbines)
Direct Health Consequences: very problematic infrasound
Indirect Financial Burden: reduced tourism, homes devalued, agricultural losses, etc.
Direct Financial Burden: electricity rate increase, net jobs loser, etc.
Indirect Security Threat: its unreliability will cripple US Electric Grid
Direct Security Threat: weaker Military (due to radar interference, etc. See here.)
Delays Climate Change Progress (wasted money that could have been spent on meaningful items, like nuclear)
Makes Climate Change Worse: see my Report
Direct Loss of Rights: leaseholders are talked into giving up their civil rights, etc.
Indirect Loss of Rights: it is an excuse for legislators to extract US citizen rights. (E.g. in NY, citizens rights — home rule, etc. — have been profoundly eroded.)
Fossil Fuel Use: is required for the manufacture, delivery, assembly and operation of wind turbines.
Sustainability: Wind energy has major dependence on unsustainable components (e.g., rare earths).
Undermines our Society: which totally depends on inexpensive, reliable electricity.
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Putting Things in Perspective
A good perspective on this is that while industrial wind energy promoters claims that we need more wind energy, the indisputabler fact is that wind energy was abandoned for most commercial and industrial applications, well over a hundred years ago.
Even in the late 1800s it was totally inconsistent with our burgeoning, more modern needs for power. When we throw the switch, we expect that the lights will go on – 100% of the time. It’s not possible for wind energy, by itself, to EVER do this, which is one of the main reasons it was relegated to the junkyard of antiquated technologies (along with such other inadequate energy sources like horse and oxen power).
ALL those limitations are still true! Also, I listed twenty-five NEW liabilities of industrial wind energy some six (6) years ago… Since that time we have discovered numerous ADDITIONAL concerns (see above) that have monumental consequences.
Why do critical thinking citizens allow this travesty to happen?
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The Bottom Line
Wind energy provides no Net Benefits to citizens. Lobbyists and their clients make billions as Legislators try to get donations and votes by imaginary virtue signaling.
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Charlotte Iserbyt (R. I. P. 2/08/22) and her allies have attempted to inform and warn everyone about what was and is happening in K-12. Most parents, even those who really care, really don't know what is happening in K-12. Thus, with each successive generation, we move ever farther away from education and into indoctrination.
Two more problems that John probably knows about and didn't have space to include:
Turbine blades' covers are made of fiberglass bonded by epoxy. Epoxy is used because polyester resin is destroyed by the UV in sunlight. Epoxy is made from Bisphenol-A, which is banned in food packaging in many countries because it's carcinogenic. The average turbine sheds 65 kilograms of microplastic particles, mostly epoxy, every year. But if the Bisphenol-A gets into the food chain from windmill blades instead of from food packaging, that's okay because of climate, or something.
If a turbine over a farmer's field is damaged, fiberglass from the blades gets into the crops. The crops cannot be harvested, animals cannot graze, and groundwater cannot be used for irrigation or livestock. The turbine owner will out-lawyer the farmer.
Details in my book "Where Will We Get Our Energy?" Everything quantified. No vague handwaving. Dots connected. 350 bibliographic citations so you can check that I didn't just make up stuff.
More details on the StopTheseThings blog, mostly devoted to stopping wind in Australia by forwarding news articles and other authors' blogs, but with many reports from elsewhere and on other energy-related topics.